Yes, I am also pissed off at this, mainly because I'm funding this through my taxes and yet I personally stand receive the grand sum of fuck-all dollars. Breeders will counter this claim with the usual bullshit of "my kids will be funding your pension in the future, so you ARE benefiting from it!". Um... no. I've been putting money into my super which would prevent me from being able to get the pension (as long as the whole fucken thing doesn't collapse like it almost did, thanks to the recent global financial bullshit).
40% of families in this country basically pay no tax because they receive an amount of welfare that is equal to or excedes the amount of tax they pay. And I would suspect that giving each family $1,000 for each child would probably push that percentage even higher. Seriously, this shit can't go on. The tax base of the country are benefiting from it the least. If the trend continues, more families will be tax burdens instead of tax payers, making the problem even worse.
What boils my piss even more is you KNOW that these breeder fucks are going to waste a lot of the $1000 bonus on bullshit they don't need, because at the end of the day no government is going to let children go hungry. As a result, irresponsible bogan breeders will piss the money away on booze, smokes and blu-ray movies (that go nicely with the plasma screen they bought with the $5,000 the government gave them to give birth to the kid in the first place) and Holden HSV* branded bullshit - because they know they can still rely on other welfare to actually feed and clothe their yard apes.
They'll cry poor once the money is gone without having to account for how it was spent. Some smaller towns are bracing for a wave of drunken violence and other crime as bogan parents stock up on VB, Bundy Cola and Jack Daniels (oh, and Peter Jackson Super 30s, can't forget those).
WHY can't we have a foodstamp system in this country? OR give the $1,000 away in the form of coupons or vouchers so we know it can't be wasted on alcohol or tobacco? Hell, even if they buy the big TV there's a remote chance the kid might learn something if they accidentally flip onto something educational, but I can't see spending the money on booze being of any benefit to the child.
We can't win. No government will give anything back to the CF unless the breeders and their hellspawn are taken care of first.
* For non-Aussies on this board, Holden is the equivalent to whatever auto maker has the biggest redneck/white trash fanbase. And bogan is an Aussie term for white trash.