Winston Smith wrote on Jun 25
th, 2014 at 2:25am:
Grappler Racist Filth wrote on Jun 23
rd, 2014 at 10:53am:
aquascoot wrote on Jun 23
rd, 2014 at 10:14am:
Tony wrote on Jun 23
rd, 2014 at 10:03am:
Yup, resentful and I just wonder why?
Resentful because I have a good sense of whats fair and the pensioners dont

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Do you think the pensioners are hard done by and the working poor and young students facing massive HECS are on easy street.
I would like to see pensions cut and more money go to the younger ones.
yes, I am resentful that the selfish are pandered to by successive governments, and only because they are a massive self interested voting block.
Hope that explains why for you.
Sheesh
What does the plight of the working poor and the students with HECS set for a better life than we ever had, have to do with the plight of pensioners?
You can't simply make some arbitrary line there and say one group are better off etc.
How about we juggle it around -
a) Do you think the
pensioners working poor are hard done by and the
working poor pensioners and young students facing massive HECS are on easy street.
b) Do you think the
pensioners young students facing massive HECS are hard done by and the working poor and
young students facing massive HECS pensioners are on easy street.
WTF is wrong with you? Most of those pensioners have worked damned hard to have very little by today's standards.... I, for one, sacrificed my own home (something I never had outside of that) to guarantee my children's future, and manfully worked 18 hours a day so every idiotic idea of 'government' and 'management' could ruin it all.
I EARNED my pension ten times over - when you can say the same - provide details, or are you just another Joe Hockey with the priv school and sweet ride fully fed education, and somehow that means you 'worked' harder and smarter?
Or are you just another rip-off merchant like Joe and Co who think they are better and more suited to run the show as some sort of right?
I know it's hard to get your head around, but posters like
aquascoot aren't interested in rational debate. They don't even begin to understand the real issues, they are not even paid shills; just attention trolls hijacking discussion forums for an attention fix. A psychologist would have a field day.
Winston!!
I pride myself on being both rational and compassionate when it comes to the pensioners.
A lot of blokes, when their horses get old and can no longer work, they send them to the doggers for $400 a hit. I don't.
they have worked hard and they get to live out their life in a paddock , as befits their hard work.
BUT, what I don't do is the following....
when the vet comes out with the new vaccines, these go to the young horses.
when I buy supplements , these go to the young horses.
when I have to put the blankets on them in winter,(well my manager does) , these go to the young horses.
when we go on a trip, I take the young horses.
the old horses simply have to get used to that.
If an old horse came down and got into the best feed, helped itself to my new gear, gave itself expensive vaccines and jumped on the float declaring itself a "grey nomad" , I would have to take action, up to and including an injection of lethobarb.
there is a natural order to things and the young must be looked after before the old.
I'll ask you a question.
2 critically injured patients are in casualty after a bad road accident.
One is 10 and one is 75.
there is only one doctor.
Who does he attend first.
answer that and you can see why pensioners simply have got ahead of themselves in assigning themselves as priority 1. they aren't.