That great sector of the Australian community, retirees, is being set upon again by government. The issue has passed barely noticed in the media but the political consequences for the Turnbull Government are sure to be profound.
On January 1, 2017, changes to the aged care assets test will see more than 100,000 Australians lose their part pension payments in entirety. More than 300,000 will have their pension payments cut.
There is a perception many retirees are rolling in money. They have assets many could only dream of. Perhaps that’s why the media has shunned the issue.
Let me ask the question, who among us could lose 20 per cent of our household incomes and come away unscathed?
It gets worse. With the loss of the pension, the government will also cancel retirees’ pensioner concession cards which allow them to enjoy discounts on council rates, car rego, energy bills and public transport tickets. Back of the envelope, that’s three grand per annum retirees will have to find.
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The stage has been shattered over a malfunction inthe Greens camp from a serious of hostile meeting last two days as offensive abusive language by dinasaur Lee Rhiannon picking up stumps taking her crew into another direction ,
Richard Di Natalie talking about rescuing his remaining flock into diverting into the Labor camp . Seems some acrimony and gloomy times of disunity is creating a plague of disgruntle in-fighting at the expense of the party.
Maybe 2017 will have the senate judiciously aimed at these clowns trying to sort their problems out before returning to sort out the policies of the Turnbull gkvernment. 2017 seems like a start of immense pressure with co-ordinated strikes from the likes of the rebel senate frequently aimed at turning the politics up side down deploying their usual aggression that Labor or conservatives will never have peace when comes to the senate creating fault lines that Paul Keating warned us on.
The year over the recycling of Malcolm Turnbull was a dismal failure smuggled in by the restless party , transformation of Clive was a boom period for cartoonists, Jacqui Rambo Tassie senator may soon enter the ring cat-fighting each other acting like two roosters fighting with a fence between them, Cory Bernardi off with the gloves no taks goingnto stop him , Scott M orrison telling us the landscape looks positive , Barnaby Joyce entered into some pub fight over in Bali some say, The Turnbull engine room seems to have run out of fuel as the intensity of the years politics gathers moment um , pensioners jumping around as some in a rage , Green’s exacerbated their own problems having a punch-up as Christmas approaches facilitating threats on each other , meanwhile the solid threats of the extremists are still sitting on the side lines in the planning stages while Bassman is worried about his spiders snakes and deaths falling out of bed is our major problems ahead of world instability .
Onya Dr Bassman.
Bassman 03:07pm .
Bassman Bassman please,…..have a read what the Rat has here on what Bob Carr had to say on near carnage having federal policejust days to spare locking up 12 terrorists with maps found on Lucas Height reactor nuclear plant , Westfields shopping centres and Melbourne stadiums plans to blow up .
imagine the 100s 000s that would perish leaving your spiders snake fatalities and sex in bed fatalities or whatever you hafe here.That would be insignificant along with what found in these terror cells caught just in time .
This would make 911 insignificant if not caught just in time by the national security .
Greg Barton Bassman can get you into the picture we are living in a dangerous world now.
Firget your spiders snakes and falling out of bed when comes to what may still happen if these clowns get their hands on the nuke buttons Bassman!
JB,..07:44am
Have mixed views with Dicky Smith having some good intelligent economics , but both us in aviation clashed years back when he was running the shows introducing fax machines killing 300 jobs closing down Australian wide flight centre units sacking personel.Dick was arrogant and my temper had him calling me a “time bomb ready to explode ” in our arguments we had , Must say he was a smart cookie but regulations introduced by him CAA at the time , gave way on resentment from pilots on his bombastic manner of restructuring . Dick must of had a full log book of enemy pilots at his throat at times , that was 9000 in Australia 20 years back .
As for the police JB ,..no thanks on memories in the good old days having my GT XW 1970 Ford Falcon 351 motor spending one night inside the lock-up being a bad boy their terms .
Bassman had one with the Cleveland 351 motor .These two cars called for the council to repair the bitumin when we were in a playful mood with
the cops soon became unfriendly shortly after .
Bella 10:08pm.
Great reading Bella on your up front views and times frustrations on pollies like me sending us ballistic.
We must keep our cool while engage in vigilance at times , hold our tenacity to go hard to ridicule , or, resentment sometimes exceeds the boundaries using our opinions . I think now time to participate in little , divert into a mode of sit back and relax to avoid blood pressure pills.
Keep up your dream Bella on the wild seas and careful not to run over those peaceful whales on your Sea Sheppard.
Cheers ,..have a Merry Christmas .
Jack the Insider.01:50pm
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Cheers.