Australia's needy slipping through cracks

The real description of the trickle-down theory is that Australia's needy slipping through cracks into oblivion.

ALMOST three quarters of non-government community service agencies are failing to meet demands for their services because of funding shortages, and risk closure as a result.

The Australian Community Sector Survey 2005 reveals that 74 per cent of such community service agencies were unable to attend all the people seeking their services during 2003-04.

The Council of Social Service of New South Wales said the biggest increases in the incidence of people being turned away were in the areas of child care, housing assistance, community legal and financial and material support services.

In the Capitalist system, there is no profit in helping the poor. They take away money that could be invested in more profitable ventures. This is the basis of the violent hatred of the rich for the poor. Yet without the poor scrambling to work at jobs that pay a pittence, how can the rich make money?

Thus we have a contradiction: the poor need money to survive in order to purchase goods and services. Yet they do have enough money to cover all of their needs, so they can not spend as much. Without a living wage, they cannot drive the economic engine. If wages rise, then profits are cut, and Capitalists cannot fund their investments.

The poor starve thereby contracting the economy so forcing the Capitalists to cut back spending, and thereby increasing the death spiral of the economy.