Dear Editor

You cannot talk about being 'for the people' and cutting service funding, without giving up your own publicly funded perks and incomes.

You are not for the people if you do not share our fate and choose to live like we do if the circumstances are so dire.

How dare you live high on the hog as sunshine earners, in some cases ten times over with multi-hundred thousand dollar salaries, expense accounts, pensions and committee bonuses.

You cannot presume to torture us and plunge us into misery, making excuses as to why government shelters you specifically from the consequences.

If the skin in this game is to be ours, then 'for the people' means it should be more if not all of yours- but you are cowards who love money at more than life, too weak to lift the slightest fingerling of comprehension to understand what you're doing to regular folk.

Our way of life is the pursuit of its standard quality, and when the leaders of our society cannot lead by example, the only deficit we face and the only drain, are those who avoid spending for our needs to achieve that level of deserving dignity, while they accrue not a single inconvenience, not a single diminishment in their escapades.

We are being expended by politicians who have purposely forgotten, if they ever realised, that their election means they are disposable and the first sacrifice of largesse, because we the people most certainly are not.

This is for themselves, and at no time will they personally absorb a single dime of the expense while we are condemned to the luxuries of their imposing lifestyles of stupidity. We are all up on the chopping block, while they will not flay themselves of a scrap of their soft handed flesh.

Who are they to send us to hell when they can't even stand to sit in purgatory?

~Curtis Healy