Bill, if you want to help, be creative for Australia’s sake

WHAT did you expect? It’s an election Federal Budget.

And now the haggling will truly begin with Bill Shorten offering alternatives while pushing his divisive and special brand of have and have-not politics.

“A fair go” Bill will say but life is what we make it, and in this country, we have plenty of opportunity to make a fair go of it.

This is not Sherwood Forest and Bill Shorten is not Robin Hood. Portraying those who create the jobs as the Sheriff of Nottingham is a fundamental attack on the opportunities we have.

This insidious strategy of creating a focus for people to vent their frustration is old, tried and tested. History has demonstrated it works but that same history also demonstrates it has dire consequences.

I’ve had a lot of careers in my life, from selling encyclopedias and even Californian cookies to television presenter, business advocate and builder. I had choices and made them.

That’s what this great country of ours is about, opportunity and choice. You just have to take the risk and grab opportunity when it comes along.

Bill is trying to put us in a box. He talks about the haves and have nots and how that is unfair because we should all have. Never mind that the haves worked, sweated and toiled for what they have.

Sure, like most Australians, I’m more than happy to give the less fortunate a hand up by giving them a job, by teaching them a trade or giving them the benefit of my experience. But it then becomes their choice to take advantage of the opportunity and take a further step forward.

Bill, you’ve done pretty well for yourself, you’ve seen opportunity and made choices and now you want to move to The Lodge. It would be fair to say you are one of the haves so spare us the hypocrisy, the negativity and the poorly disguised manipulation. If you really want to help, stop the division and start creating opportunities and choices. That’s the sort of PM the nation is looking for.

BOB JANSSEN, GOLD COAST