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Oldies' windfall at nation's expense : Comments
By Alan Moran, published 5/11/2007The Coalition’s targeting of the pensioner vote is forcing one set of taxpayers to give support to others.
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I remind him that many pensioners have been in a health fund for fifty years or more where they have rarely used it. Where is the incentive for those who have paid all their lives for nothing by remaining healthy?
He need not allude to the generous 30% discount afforded to pensioners by Mr Howard some years back. In a very short time after that announcement, the private medical fees increased by 30%.
I have affluent friends who refuse to pay for private medical insurance. The privately insured pensioners are included in those who must "prop" up these wealthy spongers.
Since the author made his way to this country only in 1974, he would hardly be an expert on the way these hard-working pensioners once lived their lives to raise their families.
I suggest he does some research on the bludging young folk who choose not to work.
These are the ones who continue to have babies with many different partners and receive huge payouts from Centrelink. Others manage to obtain a medical certificate declaring they are bi-polar, have a bad back or are drug induced schizophrenics.
Then you have the charming young men who go on the dole to avoid paying child maintenance or the young estranged mothers who just shack up and provide their children with yet another "daddy."
Do some research on the "single parent syndrome" Mr Moran and let us know how many aged pensioners received handouts when they were young men and women.
My mother was deaf and profoundly blind and raised two children alone without the benefit of government handouts. No Homeswest for us - no siree!
She truly deserved her pension in her senior years!
Do not attack the aged. Go after the cheats and crooks Mr Moran and the cartels with whom you associate. Back off from those who have worked hard all their lives, paid their taxes and are entitled to a pension and the trivial subsidies that accompany that pension.