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I actually don't disagree with some of the sentiment above. But picking on immigrants is not going to solve the problem. In fact, foreign corporations welfare - so to be clear - lining the pockets of foreign shareholders - using things like tax breaks, grants, subsidies, and funds transfer (legal avoidance of tax). That is a lot to research, so I thought I would use some water and get AI to do it. Here is the summary - and its confidence in each number (a nice trick - I wished people would use this when quoting facts - maybe AI has some advantages): For transparency, I included my response and its initial response. And here is a link to its hole answer https://chatgpt.com/share/6a907746-4178-83eb-a04f-be64bfef4444 We have to take the second line of the summary above out of the equation because that includes pensioners and longer term immigrants, and to properly account for that, we would have to measure the input into the economy and deduct that from the $30 - $40bn per year. For the sake of argument though, let's assume that it is the same as recently arrived immigrants, at around $3bn a year. So, the total in welfare attributable to immigrants is say $6bn a year. The confidence in that figure is low. So lets more than triple it to $10bn a year. That should be more than what it is, but since some here have expressed a dissatisfaction with lefties cooking the books, lets err on the side of caution. Lets only take the bottom line (pardon the pun) as all of government assistance to foreign firms and assume the second from the bottom like is for some reason singling out the commonwealth portion. It is a reasonable range guess. On the low side, it is below the adjustment for error in the immigration cost, and on the high side, it exceeds it. I would guess there are far fewer foreign corporations, so the amount paid per "head" will be a lot higher. Of course, if we assume the numbers provided are near accurate, which in their own words are of low confidence, corporate welfare is costing between 4 and 7 times immigrant welfare - every year. That adds up. Of course, you could argue that corporate welfare provides jobs. Yes it does, but why give it to foreign corporations? Why not give it to Aussie owned corporations and use it to build up Aussie industry and Aussie assets? Also, welfare to immigrants is spent locally. There is none sent back as profits to foreign peoiple (yes, some immigrants do send money to their families from their homeland - but they will by far mostly be those working and not given "handouts"). Thinking about it.. I do agree with the meme. Get the immigrant corporations out and get Aussie ones in their place.

The rear tyre is made of worn out piston rings - very clever.

One winter's evening we found an straggly cat at our door. 
She was a sorry sight indeed. 
Starving and dirty, she smelled terribly and all her fur all matted in lumps. 
We felt so sorry for her so we put her in a carrier and took 
her to the vet. 
 We didn't know what to call her so we named her 'Pussycat.'

 The vet decided to keep her for a day or so. 
He said he would let us know 
when we could come and get her.

 My husband (the complainer) said, 
'OK, but don't forget to wash her, she stinks.' 
He reminded the vet that it was his WIFE (me) that wanted the dirty cat, not him.

 My husband and my Vet have never seen eye to eye. The vet calls my husband 
'El-Cheap-O', and my husband calls the vet 'El-Charge-O'.
 
They love to hate each other and constantly 'snipe' at one another, with my 
husband getting in the last word on this particular occasion.
 
 The next day my husband had an appointment with his doctor, 
who is located in the same building, next door to the vet.

 The MD's waiting room and office was full of people waiting to see the 
doctor. 
A side door opened and the vet leaned in - he had obviously
seen my husband arrive.

 He looked straight at my husband and in a loud voice said,

'Your wife's pussy doesn't stink any more. We washed and shaved it, and
now she smells like a rose. Oh, and, by the way, I think she's pregnant.
 God only knows who the father is!' Then he closed the door.