Pixelated Semantics

Acting classes for workers

Showing his deep and abiding understanding of Marxism and of Australian society, Treasurer Costello told the Courier-Mail yesterday that "anyone who works is a member of the working class". The CM obliquely takes a little polish off with the observation that "he hinted [that] as a white-collar professional whose wages are paid by taxpayers he too was a member of the working class." His logic being that "because he derived his 'income from labour', people could 'draw their own conclusion' on his working class status". Yes, a man who as Treasurer penalises the lowest paid workers and welfare recipients on behalf of a PM who doesn't know the price of a bottle of milk, while rewarding himself and the richest members of society with generous tax breaks, year after year, has got to be "a working class man". Frankly, Mr Costello, you and your government are a sickening blight on this country, and despite the attempt to gain some "class", the only real work you and your kind perform is calculating the amount of career-building ideological warfare you can derive publicity from before anyone notices that you are in fact, a joke. Playing semantics with the "Working Class" might be boxing clever with the populist press, but there are many thousands of struggling Australian workers who have his "cleverness" to thank for incomes that shrink while their bosses prosper. No doubt paying high tax rates also makes one a member of the "ruling class", right?

Item posted by AutoEditor at 9:42 am ::