ALTRAV,

Just be aware -

I don't need your validation, or your approval, or
permission in how and what I post.

If you continue with your personal attacks you shall
be ignored and avoided.

So mind your manners.

I shall try to do the same.

Dear Paul,

I still get a lump in my throat when I drive past
a university of college remembering those "golden
times" . Criticisms of faculty and universities aside -
though valid, when I talk to young students today I
still think this country's future is in good hands.

Dear Individual,

Our country has always come good in the end.
Progressives, conservatives, or whatever, we seem
to get it right despite our differences.

Perhaps it's our ethos of a "fair-go" that underneath
all our ideologies drives and connects us all.

Dear Armchair Critic,

Nostalgia is a calming balm isn't it. It somehow removes
the rough edges from the good old days. We always remember
times as being better then perhaps they were.
Still we all need that - especially during difficult times.
For me, life is moving so fast. Too fast. And so many
things are changing - not always for the better.

some examples of a social decision?
Mr Opinion,
Economic rationalism is a social decision as it impacts mainly socially when one lot gets more for doing less than the other lot that gets less for doing more.
Robo Debt was one ! Negative gearing is another ! SSM too falls into that category !

Paying out Aged Welfare for the rest of their lives to the non productive is another example of a social decision, Indy missed that one.

Foxy, do you proof read your comments?
All that you say is not what you think you are saying.
For the record, you may feel that being nice is the way to go, well it turns out that ti is ALWAYS best to be honest and tell the truth about something, instead of concerning oneself with an unknown thing such as feelings.
Your particular brand of verbal intercourse may work well at coffee morning with the "girls", but in the real world, if someone is talking rubbish and continues to do so even after having been alerted to that fact, it is customary to become more aggressive to get ones point across.
As for your particular style of debate, you are most welcome to it even though it is like a broken record and ever so patronising.
I say all this because by challenging me you have given me the right of reply.
And I'm not sure if the part of the question that asks what I dislike about THIS forum, I have made it quite clear and OLO knows it, the record is full of my complaints and criticisms, but the other thing I don't like is when certain individuals decide they are superior in their attitude and speaking in platitudes.
I have made plenty submissions to counter such people or their submissions and attitudes.
So if you believe you have a valid case then you won't mind if you look at yourself as a case in point.
There I have been most generous and careful not to offend, that should make you and others happy, which is the kind of person I am.
In any conversation I respond in kind, that is human nature, so if someone does not like or agree with my particular form of discussion they are free to ignore me.
That's why I don't understand the gutless few here and in OLO who feel the need to intervene when the discussion has nothing to do with them.
The forum will self censure anyone who is seen as un-acceptable, by simply ignoring them.
See easy.

Paul1405,
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 !
Are you giving anything in return for it like we did ?