This article I have to post below.  I’ve just been in touch with an MP trying to unlock my superannuation ($1500) so I can survive.  I wrote the Prime Minister weeks ago asking for help as Human Services are basically saying unless I am on Centrelink for 26 consecutive weeks I can’t access Super. I was on it for many years, last year I became a conscientious objector to Job Providers rorting the system (investigated by the 7.30 Report) and choose not to take Centrelink funds if I am not guaranteed the Job Providers are ethical.  I am told the legislation says 26 weeks and see you later. Human Services wouldn’t answer my questions about my rights, nor did they find me a home, nor even tell me where I can get food. I was suicidal last year given a long term dispute where I felt I had no power.  I had cancer at xmas, which thankfully an operation sorted.  But what I noted was the lack of love, the lack of compassion and no sense of duty of care in anyone.  Occasional crumbs fall off the table and a few friends are there but you really notice the rhetoric of people who are supposed to ensure social stability and security through income support.  Instead they follow rules, ignore conscience and state they have no power.  I say is that true?  Why not make a difference, make a change and rearrange the deck chairs. We all can do something when we speak up.  We are supposed to be in a democracy I was told.

I even wrote to Malcolm Turnbull, I had an email from Human Services, I told them not to quote me legislation but I want to know if I have a right as a citizen to access income support when I am poorer than those on Centrelink.  There was no email back to state the truth of this.  I think of the constitution and I know there is section 51, sub section 23a which speaks of the goverment obligation to ensure people are supported.  Note this is the sign of a civilised society otherwise they are on the street (noticed them?) 

I am essentially been told by silence that ethically I can’t object but I have to comply even if I think the system is dishonest, if I want income support.  Well I can’t do that as I am then giving tacit consent to companies that are falsifying job seeker records and taking more money that they are not entitled to.  So today I live on borrowing money from friends and the little that comes my way.  However, I’d rather be poor and honest then privileged and dishonest.  Which is the real poverty?

I wrote to a MP tyring to gain advocacy.  Basically I go the message back that he has written to Human Services.  I didn’t get the impression he will do anything more.  There is no discussion on how to solve the problem, just silence.  I did say to him that I was in a library at the time and a homeless man was sleeping on a bean bag. I knew he was homeless, he had his shirt over his head and a trolley. I told staff in the hope someone might help him.  Now that I am without a home and no income I am in the same boat as they say.  It is interesting to see if people care or not. I hear the rhetoric but to actually care means empathy or at the very least respect that someone is going without because they don’t want to give licence to others rorting tax payers.  Funnily enough those on welfare are often accused of bludging or lazy all of this is untrue and judgemental. At a time of Easter of course Jesus (Jeshua Ben Joseph) message was to love each other, to not judge and show compassion.  We are becoming colder and harder and more busy. We have no time to create that community that supports one another. Not everyone has a family they can go to.  I know from my experience with the privatised Job Services Network is that if you do not comply you starve.  That is why we are seeing more and more people begging.

I recall when I clowned with Dr. Patch Adams in Russia.  I recall going to Moscow train station and seeing an older woman (65) begging.  I had one come up to our window of the mini bus (on our way to Moscow circus) asking for money.  In india I recall a child with a baby on her hip asking for money.  I witnessed my friend here in Melbourne making time to give money, coffee, food to people on the street. Her own son had been on drugs and been on the street. She felt empathy and realised they were in crisis. I guess experience is what makes us compassionate, it could be me.  That is closer to me now then ever but somehow I don’t feel homeless, I see the world as my home as I did when travelling the world.  I see homelessness in loveless families, places where people don’t feel understood or belong. This is what Jeshua meant by the lost and lonely. They can head large companies, they can be a would be Prime Minister undermining from the sidelines. I see him as lost.  He lost the true essence of the Essene teaching.  it really is to love yourself. The bullying is really inward pain projecting outward as a means of controlling and feeling power. It is not the real power of love within.

I have been to orphanages, nursing homes, HIV, leprosy communities, disability, mental health, dementia wards and met so many different types of people.  I was dressed as a clown and hugged them. I looked into their beautiful eyes and smiled and when they smiled back I melted when they didn’t I respected their path.  I looked into the eyes of the elderly and fell in love.  It is so easy for me to love people, I have a soft heart.   I am hard on problems but soft on people as they know not what they do, as a wise one stated.

The media is making noises that Malcolm is out, I see that as media interference in democracy, not love and compassion but a campaign to vilify, it is part of this command and control structure that underpins our society quietly. It seeks to influence you and I to believe what they want us to believe. The highest love is to live your own life as who you are not what others want you to be. It is to speak your truth quietly but clearly.  It is to treat others as you want to be treated.  It is to love unconditionally a world in pain.  Their faces appear fine but underneath many are crying, you just don’t see it. They are stressed and in pain with a life they feel they have no control over.  They do the best they can with what they have.  

Democracy is to represent the people not industry.  I see the rhetoric about industry giving us jobs on t.v. and the justifications for tax cuts.  I smile.  I am an economist and former market analyst.  How do we create prosperity?  We live to give not take. We stop judging others and solve the problem.  We invest in areas that will benefit the public, we lower their taxes as many find paying electricity/gas very difficult.  We create more markets (local produce), we bring them together at small shopping areas so they can meet the local community and boost small business. We teach them to follow their dreams, to live values that unify rather than divide, we encourage them to deal with conflict directly, face their pain, resolve their problems and live as an example to the community. We promote Gross National Happiness. We make this the society’s main objective.   We move away from money mantras that focus on self interest, lack of responsibility and legal action to remove people who may contest them. We do not allow power to accumulate in the hands of the few who then determine our future.  We share power, we listen to all voices, we respect each path as unique and not for us to judge as right or wrong.  We encourage loving families where people are not working all the time, where children have parents that are present, we get rid of technologies that divide us, we start to create places to meet, to talk to share to care.  This is the building blocks of community that values shared interest over self interest.  The latter is sinking the planet. It is why the climate is changing.

I note Malcolm mentioning the military – why?  What has that to do with Jeshua’s message? Nothing.  If we were to explore the $200 billion spent on the military in the years to come and redirect that to the poor then we will find terrorism and violence disappears overnight e.g. domestic violence, street violence, drugs will all evaporate when we invest in social building.  When we put money into ensuring enough housing, enough food, cheap energy, counselling for those struggling, role models etc.  Yet the military get mentioned.  Again why? Why is the government promoting both the business sector and the military sector (industrial complex)? Who do they represent?  The real wealth to be generated comes from developing inner wealth and generosity, education and innovation.  I have worked in 400 companies and I don’t think they need the tax breaks, they need to become creative, we keep bringing in foreign multinationals to win contracts funded by taxpayers, why not local Australian firms.  Tax cuts may ensure one’s support base but is it representing the people really?  Spending on the military does it make us safer or do we become targeted given we are in the arms trade? What of karma? Who are those really calling the shots, so to speak, I can see the pun there…. ha ha   So many areas of discussion that are not public.  Is this love, caring for the needy or are they primarily the ones suffering in war, what of the Syrian people? Look at refugees fleeing war, look how they are treated? With love, kindness and compassion or treated as illegals because a few lawyers excise parts of Australia and call it illegal.  Is that loving? Is that fair (given our anthem)?

Until we return to our true nature which is loving, giving, caring, sharing, revealing and healing we will continue to suffer mental health issues and poverty on many levels. Travelling the world I saw the beauty in so many faces.  I saw their kindness and generosity.  I met them from all walks of life, all religions, colours, women, men, children and I realised we were one family on one planet.  The joy was enormous.

So I send love to the poor.  Those poor in spirit, mean hearted, bullying, those poor in generosity, those living in platitudes not attitudes of gratitude, acting superiority but feeling inferior (inadequate).  As I seek to find a home, the next meal I will pray for them as I see them far poorer than myself.  For they never have enough.  I am grateful for what I have. They are never satisfied. Life keeps giving me a place to stay. They never know the true beauty of a moment of peace.  I smile sometimes and feel in love.  I believe Jeshua felt this way.  It is to them that I genuinely send my love and the peace that passeth all understanding. All ways.  

I felt the inspiration as I wrote this, it just flowed.  

Wake up people!!

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/malcolm-turnbull-asks-australians-to-reach-out-to-less-fortunate-at-easter-20180330-p4z73z.html

Malcolm Turnbull asks Australians to reach out to less fortunate at Easter