Australia: In Advance of Budget, Right-Wing MP Demands End to "Age of Entitlement"
Submitted on May 5, 2012
By Patrick O’Connor - 5 May 2012
An extraordinary speech delivered last month by Liberal Party shadow treasurer Joe Hockey, “The End of the Age of Entitlement”, outlined the program that finance capital is demanding be implemented in Australia, in line with the savage austerity measures imposed against the working class in Europe and the US...Hockey bluntly elaborated what has...largely been the subject of behind closed door discussion in ruling circles — that all welfare programs, pensions, universal public health and education systems, and the public provision of services ranging from transportation to housing have to be abolished.
