Dear Yuyutsu,

I feel obliged to set the record straight for your
information because you made a judgement that I find
inappropriate in your last post. Firstly I have paid
for all my treatments and medications. I have paid
for my private health cover for many, many years.
I have worked all of my life and paid taxes - very
high ones. I have never asked for anything from anybody
and I have never been on the dole. Neither has any of my
family members. To suggest that I am involved in some
kind of fraudulent behaviour is to say the least -
insulting as Poirot pointed out. The only government
help that I do receive is with one special medication -
that is available to me at a reduced cost (I still
pay for it) because I have a referral from a specialist
for it. (I pay very high fees to the specialist).

I would politely suggest to you - to find out the facts first
before you get up on your high horse and make judgements
about situations and people - you know nothing about.

You Sir, have gone down in my esteem.

Dear Poirot, StG, Lexi, R0bert,

I appreciate that people have hopes, dreams, heart aches, and lives behind all this. I also appreciate that for most people, if they or their family had a threatening medical condition for which nobody would offer support except a criminal bikie gang, then they would accept their support gratefully and feel indebted to that gang, even to the point of supporting and justifying its actions. We are all subject to human faults and weaknesses and I don't criticise anyone in person, only this wretched system whereby in order to receive appropriate medical care one needs to become a partner-in-crime with the government.

Dear Yuyutsu,

I'm afraid I don't understand to what
precise "crime" you are referring.
If you mean rorting the system in some
way - I don't see any of the people
you mention doing that - except perhaps
in your mind. It sound as though you
need to go and talk to someone. You
have a problem.

Yuyutsu,

Do you use the road network? Do you use a tap with clean running water? Did you pay for the entire network of the roads that you utilise? Did you pay and provide yourself with a water treatment plant to provide your own treated and safe water?

If you utilise government funded or subsided services and infrastructure as a matter of course, then your argument falls down.

Dear Yuyutsu,

Are you a pensioner?
Or do you receive any Government benefits at all?

Dear Lexi,

I am not a pensioner and don't get a cent from the government.
The government is taking our money without our consent - what do you call a person who does that? and what do you call a person who enjoys the proceeds of such money?

Dear Poirot,

What I get as my part in the way of water, roads and other infrastructure, is but a fraction of what I pay in taxes towards those services. I have no reason to feel bad about reclaiming a small part of my own money back and the government has set the infrastructure up in a way that forbids us to arrange for those services in any other way.