Okay, we now live in a country where both our Prime Minister and the leader of the opposition have great personal wealth. To be honest I'm not sure that should be a topic of discussion when parliament is in session, they're both in the same boat and I'm not sure either can claim to be in touch with the common man.
Moving on, what really sticks in my craw, so to speak, is this debate about the size of the food portions served in the parliamentary canteen. The wife of one of the members complained her food portion wasn't big enough. Now I could be wrong, but it looked to me like the woman in question was quite large (though to be fair there were two women in the footage and I'm making the assumption based only of how they were positioned in the frame) and not looking like she's struggling for a meal. This is a problem because the tax payer is paying for her subsidised meals, and pensioners in this country can't afford to buy meat. They can barely buy enough to see them through the week, in fact some can't.
Do we see the problem?
And now the speaker of the house is looking into the issue. Surely there are more important problems than her $7.90 meal not being big enough. Rent or mortgage difficulties anyone?
Moving on, what really sticks in my craw, so to speak, is this debate about the size of the food portions served in the parliamentary canteen. The wife of one of the members complained her food portion wasn't big enough. Now I could be wrong, but it looked to me like the woman in question was quite large (though to be fair there were two women in the footage and I'm making the assumption based only of how they were positioned in the frame) and not looking like she's struggling for a meal. This is a problem because the tax payer is paying for her subsidised meals, and pensioners in this country can't afford to buy meat. They can barely buy enough to see them through the week, in fact some can't.
Do we see the problem?
And now the speaker of the house is looking into the issue. Surely there are more important problems than her $7.90 meal not being big enough. Rent or mortgage difficulties anyone?
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