GRUDGE – OH YES!

Are you holding a grudge? About?

GRUDGE TIME

I try hard to live and let live and try very hard to avoid feeling grudges or dumping on people because of some situation that has occurred or because of some wrong I feel has been done to me.

In terms of personal relationships with others, I try very hard to play along the lines of forgiveness or not responding in a tit-for-tat way if I’ve been wronged.

But in a more overarching sense, I do hold a grudge and it’s permanent because the source of the grudge never goes away. I hold a grudge against government at the local, Territory/state and Australian levels. It’s because of the selfishness of so many politicians who put themselves before others and don’t appear to give a fig about their constituents. It’s also a grudge fuelled by the fact that governments are quite prepared to waste, waste and waste money from Treasury funds to which we are all contributing through taxes.

It often seems to me that the government is intent on taking from people by way of taxation and giving to those who don’t deserve the support that they’re offered. The welfare industry is so alive and well in Australia that it’s mind-boggling.

So much money is wasted (with obvious attempts to justification) by politicians and high-level public servants who travel and seem to be exiting the area and often Australia to go to any tinpot conference it’s on offer. The amount of money that is spent on travel is absolutely astronomic. It’s always official of course and there’s no contribution by politicians to their costs.

One of the amazing things for me is the amount of contrivance that goes on, in order to justify extra dipping of hands into the public purse by those who are so richly rewarded by way of salary, entitlements and everything else.

Yes there are a few politicians who put themselves second to others and there are some who are generous with their own personal money in support of others.

But for every one of these there are 99 who go the way that causes me the grudges I hold.