{"id":261505,"date":"2025-08-04T13:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=261505"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:57:27","slug":"is-australia-becoming-a-welfare-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=261505","title":{"rendered":"Is Australia becoming a welfare state?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>82% of all jobs created in Australia in the last 2 years are govt funded with the private sector adding on 53,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those numbers should terrify all of us. The govt has smothered the private sector and hollowed it out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expect productivity and living standards to continue to decline. This sort of economic imbalance leads to nowhere good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are heading for a complete welfare state with many being employed by the government and the rest on welfare whilst a small few are taxed into the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also means private businesses are collapsing and those still around are not hiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It also means private businesses are collapsing and those still around are not hiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":261509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261512,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261505\/revisions\/261512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}