Down to My Last $60K

I am very concerned about a fellow Australian. This woman, indeed a mother, is in a very dire predicament.

You see, she is 'down to her last $60,000'. I don't know if that means for the day, the week or even the month but she is asking "Mummy" to help out with the family finances.

I am sure we all want to help our kids, emotionally and financially where we can, but I just don't know how this woman cope.

Yes, she is one of the daughter's of Australia's richest woman, Gina Rinehart. I actually don't know a great deal about Ms Rinehart other than the fact she came back with a quick reply when the silly old Duke Of Edinburgh made some ridiculous comment to her whilst on his last tour (talk about hanging on your wife's coat tails).

I think Gina may have eaten the Duke??

And of course that she HATED her wicked stepmother, Rose Porteous, but I think she might have been a little bit more worried about her bank accounts rather than if the wicked stepmother would make her wash the floors.

It appears that Gina Rinehart has had a few children to a few different partners - so money obviously can't buy happiness- and that they seem to live all over the world. Three of her four children have launched court action against their mother as it appears she is just not giving them enough pocket money for them to shout a full round at the pub and now the suppression order has been lifted so we can all peak into their world and see what happens when you are that frigging rich.

Of course, this particular daughter, Hope Welker, is very concerned as she can't live anywhere else but the US because anywhere else means someone might kidnap her or her children (gee, Hope, I have NEVER heard of anything like that happening in the Good Ol' US of A).  She is also in desperate need of a full time nanny, a full time cook, oh sorry, a full time CHEF, and a bodyguard (how bout Julia Gillard's body guard - he is good in a scrum)  because they are going to be richer than Bill Gates and EVERYONE ELSE who doesn't have as much money as they do has staff??? 

Oh wait, maybe I am being  a bit cruel. Hopeless is actually asking for these for her birthday - so it's not just like she is asking for them out of left field. She NEEDS a chef so that her kid can eat properly, she needs a security guard (although I thought she said USA is the safest place) and she MUST HAVE  a nanny so she can go out!

Gina' s son now lives in Thailand with his family, just in case the baddies here get home (once again, NEVER heard of this happening in Thailand). Now, he is doing 'OK' as he is able to 'support' his family in a modest manner. This is because he works as a day trader and so in the last 6 months he has been able to earn about $160 000 or so.  Well, that is one way of 'modestly supporting the family'.

Now I don't mean to be nasty or cynical but can you people GET A FRIGGING LIFE.

Sorry, I don't believe that your mother has ever paraded you around like the Beckham Brood or the Pitt Jolie Sound of Music choir so perhaps you should be grateful for that.  And dear people, I would love to be down to my last $60 000 when all I had to worry about was learning how to cook a good old spag bol or having to support my family on a modest means of 4 times what I earn in a year.

I think there is one missing - maybe Posh ate her - look at her face

So, my suggestions to these poor children of Gina Rinehart is perhaps they might like to go and 'get a job' and in turn, get a 'life' and stop annoying your Mother like the kids do in the lolly aisle in the supermarket.

Anyway-  I'm off now to call Mum and ask her why I don't have a personal masseuse, a driver, and someone who can do all my work so I can just navel gaze. It must be her fault.

Cheers

Lisa x0x