Not that this has anything to do with the current topic but anyway:

Individual, my last post was referring to many of your previous posts on the website on various threads and especially this quote of yours on this thread- "No, I didn't miss the Old Age Pension because it's not Welfare. We bought it up front over a period of 50+ years. Unlike your Super which is provided by your long suffering employer !"

You have repeatedly declared in your past post history that you have already paid for your pension, which as has been pointed out by Paul often enough, is not factually true. (Indeed, even if the Government did set aside a portion of tax-payers tax to return to them later in retirement- we have no proof that you've actually paid any significant amounts of tax. I'm willing to bet, because of the fact that you are an aged pensioner, that you never made much money in life and thus haven't paid much in tax anyway).

However, between this quoted post of yours above and my post, you then did a complete back-flip. With this quote: "Yes, that's the plan. Do you expect old Age Pensioners to pay for their Pension when they're on the Pension ??", you admitted that you haven't actually paid for your pension and agreed with Paul that today's tax-payers are paying your pension. I missed this comment of yours and was replying to your previous posts.

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Umm, a debate is also a fight for the hearts and minds of others. You have to fight for your rights, or party

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But you didn't stop there, you then went on to later say that this is the "prefect" system. Well I disagree that it is the prefect system. The prefect system in my opinion is that everybody take responsibility for themselves and save for their retirement and pay their own way. The next best system is that the government force mandatory savings from their income for their retirement since people won't do it themselves. The worst system is that people don't care/don't plan for their future, live life in the moment and deliberately choose to depend upon the government (which has to collect tax from others and also go into debt) to pay for their retirement. For me, living on the pension should never be the retirement plan for anybody who is fit and intelligent enough to work, but rather the backup safety net if unforeseen events occur in their life that destroys their wealth.

Ok, now back to the topic:

Everything people have said about being free to state their opinions I agree with and like about this forum.

What I don't like is the limits on posts. The 350 word is a bit short I feel, 500 would be better.

What I feel would make this forum better, is if you had a personal account setting to hide the main body of comments of particular commentators of your choice so that only the the first 1/2 lines would show with the option to expand. Also if their was a tally system where account holders could give a thumbs or down to individual posts (although on other web-sites that do this the system lends itself to be abused).

Dear thinkabit,

Gosh, if we could give a thumbs up or down to
certain posters. Some would never get a say.
I don't think that would be really fair.

Then this place could become very dull and boring
indeed. Especially if we all agreed. I wouldn't be
interested in being part of an echo chamber.
And I'm sure neither would you.

Foxy,

The thumbs up or down doesn't stop people from saying stuff.

Many web-sites use such a system, eg: youtube.