Posted to The Age (20/10/2011) on 20/10/2011 at 12:56 PM
Commenting on “Tax boss wants $300,000 pay rise”
http://www.theage.com.au/national/tax-boss-wants-300000-pay-rise-20111020-1mang.html
Tolerance has a limit! Every day we read or listen to the news that many bureaucrats, CEO's and sports players are earning mega bucks and yet ordinary Australians are tightening their belts and even losing their jobs.
Some top earners are hopeless, useless and heartless to say the least, making losses or cutting staff year after year. Are Australians too naive and too apathetic to allow this to go on unchecked?
We may not have any experience about revolution, except the Eureka Stockade; but many migrants had lived through and even participated in revolutions before they came to Australia. If wealth gaps get bigger and inequality continues to propagate, street marches and noisy demonstrations will become daily activities.
I hope I never see the day when Australia goes down that path. However, the world is getting too “small” and information can be disseminated at lightning speed. What we have been witnessing in many countries recently are precursor of what can happen in Australia if nothing is done to correct imbalance sooner.
Commenting on “Tax boss wants $300,000 pay rise”
http://www.theage.com.au/national/tax-boss-wants-300000-pay-rise-20111020-1mang.html
Tolerance has a limit! Every day we read or listen to the news that many bureaucrats, CEO's and sports players are earning mega bucks and yet ordinary Australians are tightening their belts and even losing their jobs.
Some top earners are hopeless, useless and heartless to say the least, making losses or cutting staff year after year. Are Australians too naive and too apathetic to allow this to go on unchecked?
We may not have any experience about revolution, except the Eureka Stockade; but many migrants had lived through and even participated in revolutions before they came to Australia. If wealth gaps get bigger and inequality continues to propagate, street marches and noisy demonstrations will become daily activities.
I hope I never see the day when Australia goes down that path. However, the world is getting too “small” and information can be disseminated at lightning speed. What we have been witnessing in many countries recently are precursor of what can happen in Australia if nothing is done to correct imbalance sooner.