Hasbeen,

“I am horrified by the number of mobility scooters cruising around my town & our supermarkets, since this rip off started. Usually driven by fat smelly people of one ethnic group renowned for latching on to any rip off of the public purse.”

Love it! I know that you would hate the thought, but I wish you were a South Australian.

Of course, that should have been:

“You could argue that people should be given the freedom to make the mistake of not contributing to vital services AND LEARN FROM IT, but that would never happen under your libertarian model because it relies on having a very educated public, which could also never happen if education, too, relied on charity.”

Libertarianism is a flawed, utopian political worldview that would fail the standard I mentioned in my first post, unless one stupidly denied determinism as ever being a factor in anything.

Foxy
Thank you for your compassionate understanding of those who give there all
In caring for a disabled child, whom they love. Often to the extent of having no life or
respite from the full time care. This is where we as a society need to lend a helping hand especially in funding respite services.

Rechub
I agree that the shark attack fellow will be able to manage desk work quite well
with one leg but he needs financial support, maybe for a year until he recovers
physically and mentally, and adapts to managing life with one leg.

A severe physical event, takes time to recover from. Often their is depression and post traumatic syndrome.
When you lose a limb, you go through all the roller coaster moods
of grief. He may well be incapable of focusing on a job until he deals with the emotions.

If he's sitting staring into space or crying at his desk, he is not going to be much good to
someone who gives him a job. Centrelink needs to allow for the mental stress and trauma that follows these events.
Eventually the mind and emotions heal, but it takes a period of grace from Centrelink before they start hounding him.
maybe 6months, for the loss of a leg or arm. Eventually he will probably be very keen
to be given a job to prove he can still do things despite having only one leg.

Doog, just like any accident, nobody can really predict something and that is why we have insurance available. Now if ones lifestyle choices make insurance unafordable, then thats not societies problem, its their problem.

Now if a person is/was a cronic smoker, or is an excessive eater and obese, then I see no reason why I should be paying for their disabillity when I had no influence on their lifestyle. I already pay their medical bills, against my will.

If we are to have any chance of delivering a decent lifestyle to future generations, people MUST LEARN to stand on their own two feet and not have this entitlement mentality that had festered in this country over the past decade or more.

Dear CHERFUL,

Thank You for your kind heart.

I always enjoy reading your posts.

All we need is another 2,000 public servants to vet these people as to their needs.
You can stop paying your insurance and join everybody else.