'Abbott again making decisions for the liberal coalition, do what I say or resign'

Yeah Doog again total hypocrisy with Labour insisting all agree with perverting the word marriage or be kicked out of the Labour party. Take away your blinkers and you might be able to reason.

Nathan, as sad as your situation sounds, do you really believe the tax payer should subsidize your condition,

I have truma insurance at a whopping cost of $750 per month, brought about by poor advice in my younger years as I was convinced to enter into what known as a 'stepped policy' and I'm paying dearly now. However, as my policy payments are non tax deductible, I pay these with my after tax dollars.

Now while I'm not suggesting you are not entitled to your subsidized medications, what we have to decide is what subsidies to cut because as a nation, the tax payers contributions are not meeting the commitments. Of cause the perks, especially for past pollies are simply ridiculous to say the least.

As Joe hockey said some time ago, "we all have to do the heavy lifting", well obviously his interpretation of 'all' is a lot different to mine.

Entitlements are one thing, but taking advantage of them, especially when calling for all to do the heavy lifting is simply outrageous in my view.

The so called "Age of Entitlement" is only over for some and not all it would seem.

I would like to see the PoliTicks burn the department that sets their income. If they can't be trusted to do the right thing re: their own incomes then they can't be trusted for anything and should be terminated.

The current rules re: the income of PoliTicks should be retrospectively applied to all ex-politicians, instead of the obscene amounts this scum get paid.

And axe the top end of the public service to amounts no more than 75% of their respective Ministers.

The lawyers need to be put on a fixed price system with incentives for excellence such that the current legal system characterised by remorseless mercantilism can be evolved into a universal justice system for all.

The amount these wig parasites get paid in no way constitutes a fair days pay for a fair days work. And when you think about it, the legal industry is not even a product of the Free Market but rather has been written into existence.

So, what is going on is we have ongoing development of overly complicated rules, which are then largely hidden, and the people then have to pay absurd amounts to get advice on a tiny little slice of it else risk falling foul of punitive provisions.

What a joke! This is often all before you even start playing the real game like $AU700,000++ just to do the paperwork before you can list on the stock exchange, or some figure thereabouts.

What we need is to produce goods and services in international demand to bring big bucks in. But are we investing in education and science such that this may come about? No. What this pathetic country does is spend obscene amounts of money on pathetic, pencil fiddling old fools who in reality are little more than functionaries and administrators.

That is not to say that some rules and admin do not enhance the collective, but this country is a farce.