Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Jan 7
th, 2025 at 8:03pm:
Ah - so it's a matter of SPIN and not of reality. What are those 'dysfunctional underclass' people to do for a job and a roof these days? So according to the narrative we're all middle class now and nobody works for a living, not in any hard yakka way, and so there is a need for mass immigrants to fill the holes at servos and such? You don't see many of them out there with a spade.... they are like sheilas - they only want the soft jobs that pay the best without any hard effort.
So - where does that leave us for an 'underclass'? For an 'underclass' they're doing a damned good job of taking advantage of all the business loop-holes etc, while the real underclass lives on the beach - has far more leisure time than ever in history, you know.
Now wonder they drink and drug and have head problems.
Dysfunctional underclasses don't work, they're incapacitated. In Australia, they receive taxpayer-funded medications, therapy and a sickness allowance (euphemistically rebranded recently as part of jobseeker payments).
It's not like seeking migrants as a source of a willing underclass is anything new in Australia, think the Snowy Mountains Scheme.
Yes, that's right we all have pretensions to be no lower than the middle class, and we're all 'above average' in status. Politicians are only responding to what they know we imagine of ourselves.
Indic migrants, themselves, are not taking advantage of anything in Australia... they're following instructions laid out to them by their local migration intermediaries.
And to just get a chance at having a child in Australia, who can earn money in Australian terms that can support their entire extended family, costs a fortune for the average Indic parents who, even if they are financially comfortable in local terms, aren't even close to that in Australian terms. They often have to take out loans to give just one child a chance at earning life-changing money as a low-skilled worker.