Imagine having a piggy bank which you put all your money into and then every three years when you threaten it with a hammer, it gives most of it back. It’s a great system; you’re grateful to the pig for giving you money, the pig’s grateful you didn’t smash it with the hammer and you get to keep the pig for another three years and do it all again. The technical term for this system is fiscal responsibility.
Once in a while, a newer, shinier piggy bank comes along and promises to give you back your own money in even more exciting, generous and fiscally responsible ways and you start thinking that a bit of a tap of the hammer is no less than what your old piggy bank deserves. This generally leads to an outbreak of fiscal responsibility so extraordinary that it’s like both pigs are farting hundred dollar bills (in the case of those in the advertising profession this is actually the case).
Anyway, after the smoke has cleared and the victorious piggy bank dances gleefully on the shattered remains of the loser, you find that you don’t have quite as much cash your pocket as you expected. Luckily for the pig, you’ve got three years to forget that before you get handed another hammer.
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I’m crying laughing
) Thanks Kudelka!
Posted 11 Jun 2007 at 9:52 am ¶As a struggling single mum, I just received another one of those Centrelink statements that say You get a Bonus!!! No reason is given, but I know it is to butter me up and get my election juices flowing. Ill happily take the money, but
I NEVER voted for JH and Im not about to start voting for him now. According to JH I’m an evil welfare-dwelling single mum who ought to be working in a REAL job. See, I DO have a memory. And, I VOTE.
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