{"id":3366,"date":"2014-09-01T18:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2014-09-01T18:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T18:09:40","slug":"joe-hockey-poor-people-dont-have-cars-by-roger-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3366","title":{"rendered":"Joe Hockey: &#8220;Poor people don&#8217;t have cars&#8230;&#8221; by Roger White"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"height: 46px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"387\" height=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>If anyone needed any more proof of how out of touch Treasurer Joe Hockey is with Western Sydney, then his latest comments about poor people\u2019s driving habits are the best proof.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Still trying desperately to sell the many unfair aspects of his May Budget, the Treasurer has now told low income Australians they should cop the Abbott Government\u2019s fuel indexation increase because as he puts it, \u201cthe poorest people either don\u2019t have cars or actually don\u2019t drive very far\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Hockey continues to show just how out of touch he really is,\u201d <strong>Federal Member for Chifley Ed Husic said.<\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Joe, poor people drive as much as he thinks before speaking,\u201d Mr Husic added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChifley families often have to drive extraordinary distances on ridiculously congested roads to get to and from work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week\u2019s spike in the unemployment rate is further evidence [that] \u00a0the job market is tightening and we all know Western Sydney already has higher than average unemployment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIncreasing the amount they pay at the petrol bowser will only add to the pain of struggling low income families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Hockey\u2019s Budget was a stinker the night he released it \u2014 and three months down the track it doesn\u2019t smell any better.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Australian public takes offence at comments like these latest offerings from a man from North Sydney who gets chauffeured around the place.<\/p>\n<p>Labor will continue to rally against this unfair Budget, from its fuel and $7 GP taxes to the way it punishes students and pensioners,\u201d Mr Husic concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone needed any more proof of how out of touch Treasurer Joe Hockey is with Western Sydney, then his latest comments about poor people\u2019s driving habits are the best proof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}