One of those experiences included visiting hell and the most evil incarnate I've ever encountered. Evil co strong to be palpable and the most terrifying experience I've ever experienced.

Is this what you want? it inquired of me showing me a vision of a world where I could have anything,always providing I could just junk every moral conviction I've ever held as worthwhile and or of some value.

This world didn't have even as much as a single drop of the milk of human kindness; wasted nothing nor left any victim untouched ,when they could be harvested for their work effort, or recoverable assets, inclusive of their transferable organs, viable sperm or eggs, or just their gold teeth, human hair, including pubic hair, for which there seems to be a growing market?

It was a truly horrifying vision and a world we seem hell bent on creating?

Where the only goal seemed to become the spit lickle compliant servant of this monstrously evil entity! With words like ambition, aspiration or legal, made it all seem okay or right and still ringing in my ears?

I have no beef with honestly earned and deserved wealth; but not that that is even partly the product of slave wages, child labor, elder abuse, rip offs and patently manufactured unnecessary money for nothing scams?

Don't think of tax as an impost, but rather the price of privilege that lets one earn an honest dollar in the best country on earth! Remember one doesn't pay tax on their losses just the real after cost profits.

I can remember praying to dear God, don't let this intensely cruel world ever become part of any reality that I shared! You can say it was just a damaged brain producing some terrifying hallucinations; and it could have been!?

We'll never know, until we all reach an end point and ultimate justice from the pointing finger of the man in the mirror, the harshest judge of all!
Rhrosty.

Rhosty...

Good luck and get well soon!

Article:

As the cost of living increases much faster than the official version, for many on pensions, renting is now becoming an opt-out, not an option.

Housing affordability has become the quiet plague.

Australia increasingly advances into a country of rich conformists, versus a majority of poor Desperados; a situation set not to change anytime soon, towards any improvement to the lot of the poor!

glad to hear you are recoverying from a truely horrific experience Rhrosty. Sounds like the vision was or as bad as the physical pain. Thank God for your neigbour and ambos. Just spent some days in the big smoke at one of the major hospitals trying to help out a friend. Had mixed feelings about the health system as it is a massive wealth producer for many. On the other hand, I was thoroughly impressed by the doctors and nurses (including muslim) who were professional and displayed empathy for the patients.

Rhosty,

Sorry to hear about your medical problems, but at least from your recent post it does not seem as if you mental faculties have been harmed.

I am currently involved helping elderly people update their mobile phones, so that if they have an experience like yours they will not wait hours for assistance. I have been able to get the cost down to $15 for the phone, and 50 cents for the annual running cost (excluding any non-medical calls they would wish to make).

You may be able to explain why so many elderly people live alone, when having a companion or lodger could mean the difference between a quick trip to hospital and being found dead on the lounge room floor weeks later. Is it that they just cannot face the likely outcome of their lifestyle, or is there another reason?

This article is not completely true re residential care facilities, in that most of them have to have some 'concessional beds' for residents who are on full pensions and don't have a house to sell to pay for the bond into the facility.

So, there will always be Government funded places for most who need them, otherwise the hospitals would be full of people waiting for placement in aged care facilities.

Yes, there are already some aged people waiting in hospitals for placement, but there are also many more aged care facilities being built, and the Government is also widening the availability of community aged care packages for people to stay at home longer.
Mind you, one is better of being on a full pension when you retire than a self funded retiree, because the cost of aged care for self-funded retirees is awful.
If you own a house, put all your retirement money into that!

Thank you one and all for your kind thoughts and best wishes. I'm told I have made a quite miraculous recovery, and believe I owe that and all that I've retained to the chap upstairs; who I've never stopped believing in!

Just the organized religions who purport to know his mind and self select to speak for him.

Put your money into your home by all means Susan. But know this, you can be declared incompetent and your goods and chattels inclusive of a solely occupied home sold at public auction in order to recover the cost of the nursing home; that you can be placed in.

Even against your express wishes if you don't have the brains to organize a power of enduring attorney while you have all your marbles still rattling around in their proper place! Anyone can have a stroke at any time!

I chose to live alone given the level of reported elder abuse that seems par for the course in today's world?
Even so I'm not averse to finding someone I could care for and share with. If that should be part of my preordained destiny?

I'm still waiting! Although I would never ever chose to make myself someone else's burden however willing they were to shoulder it.

From a purely economic point, it costs the taxpayer far less to help an aging person to remain in his or her home, with the provision of services that private contractors can vye for. Than place them in care!

Some of which is adding to the already considerable wealth of private entities. I've always believed aged care should be provided by the not for profit sector, even if subsidized by the government to make it affordable?I just don't believe that the taxpayer can be milked in this way just to make some very wealthy folks much wealthier!
Phrosty.