Marie Hazledine-Barber

Maths 1 and 1 = 2 ?

12.5% GST ( Goods and Service Tax ) to be increased to 15% = a 2.5% rise. On all commodities .

Recent example expressed by parliament: the thinking is a rise for low income people of 2.5% on Welfare to cover the rise.

On an income of $300 plus 2.5% = $7.50c

Food                          12.5%  plus new rise  2.5%

Rent                           12.5% plus new rise   2.5%

Phone                        12.5% plus new rise   2.5%

Power                        12.5% plus new rise 2.5%

Petrol                         12.5% plus new rise 2.5%

Add each 2.5% on the individual commodity = 12.5% = 15%. x five times over.

The increase so generously suggested to the poor of a 2.5% of one payment each pay of an increase of $7.50c per week. About the cost of two loaves of bread… and no fish in the basket.

That is the start, not counting the shoes, childrens’ requirements for clothes and education.

When did 1 and 1 stopped equaling two.

“If the radio notifies in real time and the Internet soon after, television has the bad habit of making spectacles out of news. Then theoretically, it should be up to newspapers to analyze, investigate the events and ordinary people write with passion their views. “

Coping with the overwhelming pace of change, demands of life, the seeking to have work life balance is a cost in time and money. Change is loss and loss is change, does one evaluate before the change the cost of loss?  Or is it the change in ones’ life is a gain and there is never loss? If perceived as loss: question was it yours to have in the beginning.

What if the “overwhelm” is the important barometer or the “gut instinct” (or some call it the sub – consciousness) irritates: is this the signal that tells one, parts of the tapestry in one’s life is not right? Is that the signal for change? The signal to question?

Does one stand alone, or are we all in the global sense inter-connected, by way of work, food, banks, everything we choose in our daily lives is by the labours of others and people one does not know.

Is it that the inter-connection is so intense that the simple task, the grass roots level, is forgotten until a solution to a problem is sought?

What affects you in your daily life may not have been your intention but enters one’s life by contribution of forces you did not intend or invite. Therefore how aware is one, what is the contribution to the world around one to change for the betterment of one’s life: or mankinds for sustainability of life and the global future.

It starts with you and what else is possible?