{"id":342,"date":"2006-10-24T11:43:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T01:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2006-10-24T21:01:57","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T11:01:57","slug":"joe-hockey-again-demonises-welfare-recipients-for-political-gain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Joe Hockey AGAIN demonises welfare recipients for political gain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" title=\"Joe Hockey wants you to know thine enemy\" alt=\"Joe Hockey wants you to know thine enemy\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/disabled_devil.gif\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s an old American euphemism for <em>utterly<\/em> unbelievable lies; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/horse_hockey\"><em><strong>horse-hockey<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/\">News Ltd<\/a>. (or is that Ltd. News?) have yet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,23599,20633627-2,00.html\">another Hockey headline<\/a> today designed to politically lever the &#8216;welfare bludger&#8217; furphy.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.welfarerights.org.au\/sydney\/Gt5706-2.doc\">0.5% rate of welfare fraud in Australia<\/a> is among the lowest in the world. 99.5% of those collecting a benefit are honest, deserving recipients, but Joe won&#8217;t tell you that.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers of benefit recipients in Australia are also very small compared to the total population.<\/p>\n<p>Never have so many  in such a small group paid so much for the self-serving political propaganda of one politician.<\/p>\n<p>Big Joe&#8217;s press releases are better composted than believed.<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an old American euphemism for utterly unbelievable lies; horse-hockey. News Ltd. (or is that Ltd. News?) have yet another Hockey headline today designed to politically lever the &#8216;welfare bludger&#8217; furphy. The 0.5% rate of welfare fraud in Australia is among the lowest in the world. 99.5% of those collecting a benefit are honest, deserving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}