thinkabit,
How about trying to live up to your name ?
Pensioners have already purchased their income over fifty + years

All you old age pensioners out there, do you agree/disagree that the old age pension is underserved Welfare ?
Or, do you see it as I do that we've invested in our pension for over 50 years ?
To simply wipe away a lifetime of paying taxes including a 7.5% component for the pension by some Govt apron clingers is a very dangerous pretext !
Just because the contributions were no longer shown on payslips not long after the Goaf outfit, is no justification for calling the pension now Welfare !
Many Job incentives & project funding of late are actual welfare yet no-one remarks on that.
I firmly believe that a National Service is vital for at least maintaining if not bettering the present economics. Anyone who served would not be so insipid as to call the old age pension Welfare !

Bazz,

Better still, why not put them in shackles and put them to work as slaves?

And when the farmers are finished with them you can sell them to your Chinese mates for organ transplants.

If you don't have any Chinese mates then try asking some L-NP MPs who can put you in contact with some Chinese business contacts of theirs.

If you don't know who to contact just keep your eyes on the news because they'll be coming out of the woodwork soon.

One has to assume that people having a shot at pensioners and calling the Age Pension "welfare" are themselves too rich to qualify for it. Most people on an Age Pension, full or part, didn't have any form superannuation when they were working. The younger smart arses think the the world started at the time of their birth, or that everything prior to their existence was the same as it is today.

Perhaps they would like to see Australia ending up a Third World country quicker than it already is, with no pension, no nothing: just average people having to work until they drop dead. Something like Communist China, where they could still be rich, but tout the virtues of socialism.

What the silly, selfish gits don't seem to comprehend is that, we propped up their parents' & grandparents' pensions just as we expect them to put in their share now for us. The fact they work at least a decade less than we did is something they have to come to grips with !
The previous generation brings up the next !
Superannuation will eventually falter as much of it is being used up long before they reach retirement age. They'll be in a jam of their own making !
A National Service scheme could pull them out !

ttbn,

Keep on going down the path that most on OLO want to tread and we'll probably soon end up as part of China.