Indy,

What a load of bunk you present. You provide no evidence for your claim, concerning 95% of public servants. All you provide is your own pessimistic opinion, and we are suppose to accept that as evidence.

I have worked in the public and private spheres, and associated with many public servants. Its my small observation that there are as meany dills if not more employed in private enterprise as in the PS.

What do YOU base your 95% claim on? Your distorted mindless attitude.

"On" what, what am I on one what? My guess is you may well have been booted from the Public Service and now have a belligerent attitude.

Paul1405,
The more you're getting on the defensive, the more you're incriminating yourself. Or, are you trying to convince us that service from bureaucrats in Govt for every Dollar is value ?
If you think we're getting a fair exchange of values then you'd better seek some help instead of having another cuppa in from of your Solitaire !

Obviously, Tim Wilson should have recused himself from any deliberations of that committee. Did he let anybody know that, 'by the way, Geoff Wilson is a relative, and I've got interests in his multi-billion-dollar business' ?

On those grounds, he should resign from the committee. If he did conceal his pecuniary interests in Geoff Wilson's asset management business, then he should resign from parliament.

indy bloke! your personal mission against the public service has lost a wheel
Watched it over the years and it will not wash
If it was true, think about it, those responsible for not firing them would be even worse

runner,

Name one Emily Lister who as you claimed is for
the murder of newborn babies. I asked for evidence
from you as you are the one making this claim.
Over and over again.

Yep, this is how it works these days.

Some ALP dolt asserts that Mr X, who might have something bad to say about the ALP, ought to resign for...well the reason doesn't matter, just the assertion.

Then the (cough!) totally unbiased Fairfax/ABC cabal pick up the claim and repeat it as though it has any real validity. OMG they assert, these two Wilson's are related. Well yes.."the MP's great grandfather is the fund manager's grandfather". Practically brothers!
Using this same criteria I need to confess that I'm related to Pauletc via my great, great great......great, great grandmother Eve. Seriously!

And the bad Wilson has a share-holding in the other's fund. Sure he disclosed it, but he doesn't do so every time he opens his mouth so that's really bad because...well the reason doesn't matter, just the assertion.

So now the my-team-good-or-bad automatons chime in saying, yes I agree with what he said, whatever it was. Now, the average leftist likes to think of himself as a free thinking individualist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QereR0CViMY) when they repeat whatever they've been told to believe, but indeed they are just regurgitating the party line.

But that's only to be expected when they mindlessly follow someone who is prepared to mindlessly follow someone else...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf4nlIEHfaU

I've always thought that the whole franking credit thing was a storm in a teacup and that savvy investors could just rearrange their portfolios to the new circumstances. After all they're gunna have to get used to the ALP sticking their hands in pretty much everyone's back pocket after the election.

But if the ALP / (cough!) unbiased media are prepared to go to these ridiculous lengths to try to stop people looking into their tax policies (for want of a better word), then perhaps there really is a significant portion of pensioners who do feel they'll be badly affected.