Start doing the job you're paid way too much to do

CHARLIE COE
9 October 2018
DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

‘Start doing the job you’re paid way too much to do’: Aussie man’s brutally honest takedown of Scott Morrison for failing to tackle the petrol price crisis goes viral

 An Australian has delivered a brutally honest takedown of new Prime Minister Scott Morrison – telling him to ‘start doing the job you’re paid way too much to do’.

The Facebook post, prompted by record-high fuel prices, has gone viral and more than 13,000 people have shared the post in support. 

 The price of a litre of fuel is expected to top $2 by the end of the year, with the global cost of a barrel of oil reaching a two-year high in April.

Motorists have been slugged almost $1.70 a litre for unleaded fuel in the past few weeks, a price which has also been inflated by the weak Australian dollar.

Economists have predicted further falls in the dollar, and they expect prices to hit at least $1.80 – with a further ‘global shock’ potentially pushing the rate past the $2 mark.

Brisbane and the Gold Coast are currently experiencing four-and-a-half year highs in fuel prices.

The Facebook user urged Mr Morrison to start focusing on ‘the things that affect us little people on a daily basis’, such as the cost at the pump.

He highlighted how $30 was only able to get him 17 litres of diesel on Tuesday morning.

The social media user implored Mr Morrison to do something about it in an eloquent but typically forthright Australian manner.

He said: ‘It’s costing too much to travel to our jobs that pay too little to earn the money to buy food that’s too expensive and live in the houses we can’t afford.’

‘Be the leader people want to keep in for doing the job you’re paid way too much to do. 

He also asked the prime minister to reduce foreign aid and ‘start getting thing done’ in his own country.

Australia has contributed more than $10million in aid to help those affected by last week’s fatal earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia.

Those reacting to the post on Facebook, which has more than 7,000 likes, were quick to show their support for the comments.

One user said: ‘Legend bro – I’m behind you. It’s time we stopped settling for what is being served to us.’

Another echoed his comments on foreign aid.

They said: ‘I love the 5mil they just sent for tsunami aid .. but nothing for our farmers. 

The whole of New South Wales remains in a state of drought, with around a quarter said to be in ‘intense drought’.

Australia’s former Governor General Michael Jeffery labelled the $1.8billion in support the government has provided for stricken farmers this month as ‘simply crisis management and not a long-term solution.’