Mel went home today. Her antibiotics have finally come to an end. She is so much better and we are much relieved! I dropped her off to her Wednesday art class before running some errands finishing up enjoying a Gloria Jeans coffee and reading the newspaper. I was checking out the National annual budget brought down yesterday. There is not a lot which will effect us on the pension, except the petrol increase and prescription increase. I am not sure if we will pay the $7 co-payment when visiting a GP, as we only sign and do not pay when we visit a doctor. We pay for specialists like everyone else does. The daily paper comprehensively covered the budget and how it will affect a range of everyday people in our community. It's a difficult budget for uni students and young families with the change to the family tax benefit. I met a friend in the supermarket this afternoon who said she was disgusted with the budget and had slammed her kitchen cupboard door while thinking how it will affect her family. It is never easy juggling money with a young family. She is now a single parent and I felt her frustration. The government assures us their budget is tough to bring down the spiralling deficit. The budget will cut sizable funding from; education, family payments, health, foreign aid and public service jobs. There are some winners and some good ideas but families and students are losing out.
A week from now we will have our attention on something new but the nation's government will continue on their campaign in hope of reducing the country's deficit at the expense of the everyday man in the street.
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