Local Man Waits To See Who's Most Upset By This Budget Before Making His Own Judgement

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A Betoota Heights city worker is reversing his judgement this morning ahead of tomorrow night's historic budget where Treasurer Jim Chalmers is due to hand down reforms and changes not seen in this country for a generation.

Speaking to The Advocate today at the Greens Road electric trolley bus stop, public servant Darren Laroche said it annoys him that he's being drawn into politics but as this budget might actually affect him in some way, he's forced to taken in and absorb the finer details.

"I'm a public servant with an investment property," said the 38-year-old.

"For 15 years, not much in the way of budget changes as really impacted me. But now that Jim [Chalmers] is going to open the national fuse box and put the hose on it, I need to see how it's going to impact me,"

"Which means I need to wade into this terrible quagmire of news media in this country."

However, Laroche went on to say that rather than see AI-generated meme after meme on social media and listen to talking heads on Instagram, he told our reporter that he's just going to see who this upsets the most and go from there.

"If it upsets the media class, property hoarders and financiers, then I guess it's not that bad?" he said.

"If it's bad for people like me, you know, people who sacrificed their 20s to get into property, work hard to get a head, build some equity and use some leverage to buy an apartment with balcony? Then I'll be cross,"

"If a budget upsets you know, billionaires. Then it's probably good for people like me? I'll never be one, I'm a state project manager from Main Roads."

In equal measure, Laroche said if this budget made the Greens jump for joy, take their bongos out into the street to slap them, at 10am on a Wednesday morning because they have nowhere else to be like work, then that's also no good.

"I don't want to have my wealth and hard work stolen from me and given to some invisibly disabled person in Melbourne. That's arguably worse because at least billionaires employ people. Giving money to those sentient beanbags on unemployment benefits only helps their drug dealers and slumlords," he added.

"Anyway, we'll see."

More to come.