Who would be silly enough to listen to a hasbeen politician, who didn't exactly cover himself in glory when he had the chance! He left school when he was 14 and hasn't stopped bluffing his way about since. He is a know- nothing poser.

ttbn. Yes and addresses "the problem" like the millionaire pig farmer he was or still is?

The aged care system has been broken since it was privatised, and the royal commision has established that it is a barstard system where some operators bleed their customers until they're white?

As for Keating's stupid idea! It should be filed under too stupid for words!

In your own home care costs around half of residential care, yet the government has to be dragged kicking and screaming to adequately fund it and having done that, pocket billions.

I mean half the reason for residential aged care,is folks can no longer manage to look after house and yard!

We apparently can afford to fund franking credits, i.e., tax returns for folkss who don't pay tax? And could exclude pensioners and collect a whole lot more revenue!

We could cap negatively geared residential real estate to five residences plus the family home. That and fixing the rorts that are bodgy family trusts would fund the age pension and in your home, home care, house and yard.

We talk about are oldsters as if they've never contributed never paid tax or paid into a super fund! I've done both and paid tax at the top rate of over 60%!

Our taxpaying forbears built and paid for a telco, banks, an airline or two, several insurance companies and practiccally all the power generationo of the nation.

And most of it, i.e., that which various govenments did not use as their personal ATM, made a quid!

And succesive incompetent, pork barrelling, vote-buying governments sold it and all but gave away mining booms 1 and 2.

And if allowed would confiscate the family home if you own one to pay for their blatant incompetence?

We can't afford aged care, but hey, we can afford unlimited negative gearing, subsidised high income super, regulaly rorted family trusts?

All while massive multinationals pay little if any tax?

As Shakespear might have said, something sinks in the state of Denmark. Go figure?
Alan B

Another sufferer from Relevance Deprivation Syndrome.