Peter Costello does more for students in one week than NUS in whole lifetime.

You see kids, there’s an election on and we’re all doomed, but the good news is that EVERYONE WANTS TO BUY YOUR VOTE

*applause*

You see, you, the crafty blog-reading, well-informed type-person has the power to say who gets to call the shots on the exact same policies come November 24th (Otherwise known as D day). When you dot your i’s and cross your t’s (thus making the ballot informal and essentially wasting your voice in our democratic society) on polling day, you’re making a decision about which bunch of morons is going to be running the country.

This is the exact opposite of what you do when you vote for people to go to NUS. In that situation, you vote for people who want to be the people that want one day to run the country but get so worked up about contraceptives for lactating lesbians that they swallow a broken condom. Choking to death on the floor of the NUS with everyone watching carefully as the NUS has a strict non-interventionist health policy.

The real issue here though is that the NUS is our student body advocate. So when they’re not calling for the destruction of Israel or clamoring for us to replace lightbulbs with communes, they’re attempting to better life for us, the students, by lobbying at a federal level.

Thus far this has achieved sweet fuck all other than most of these tryhard student politicos losing their fat honorariums and then trying to fraudulently extract them from the universities, causing the collapse of student associations (I’m looking at you Young Labor).

Seriously, they didn’t stop the Iraq war, they didn’t get youth allowance increased, they didn’t stop VSU and we haven’t updated all dictionaries to the trendy new spellings of sexual pronouns (Hint: they’re not ‘awareness-raising’, you look like a bunch of dyslexics with down syndrome).

So yeah, life as a student has been pretty much fucked. We get not that much income from Youth Allowance, we have to work multiple jobs to, you know, live. Textbooks etc are expensive and these morons that are elected to represent us are ripping us off and fucking us over for their own political gain.

I’ll get to the point.

Costello is going to increase the tax free threshold to $20,000.

That’s right. He’s going to reduce, significantly, our expenses on tax and give students more money to put into their pockets for dealing with things.

You know the great things, you know who’s really going to benefit from this? The kids that actually struggle and work hard to get through Uni.

The Socialist Alternative douchebags with their Gender Studies degrees and their photocopied Marx will get fuck all because none of them work real jobs and they’re all on Youth Allowance.

Which makes me think they’re a bunch of hypocritical scum that call all governmental spending blood money, but boy howdy they’re willing to compromise their moral to get themselves giant heaping fistfuls of that very same bloody money.

Thank you, Peter Costello. I know you’re doing it for the less well off to get their votes, but hey, now both sides are committing to this tax relief, and I know students will be far better off due to this, than anything the NUS would have achieved in the next century.