By: farrugiapa
16/05/2008
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i tottally agree,more so if you are paying rent.and have been contribuying to the goverment for the past 35 year in taxes ,while working your butt off,i was all for Ruddy,i thaught he had his heart in the right place,try putting your mum or in law on a measly 270 a week and pay 200 rent and try and live off the seventy dollars that are left,to pay 4 all the bills medical treatment gifts and all other items,and try and eat healtyh with 10 dollars a week.also what the goverment should be looking at,that he still gets his revenue from the seniors that manage to put money in pokie machiens that never pay,so the goverment gets all that money back and also if you like to splurge a little on maybe a glass of wine once in while or a smoke .please reconsider all the pensioners wetgher they are old or have a cronic illness,it will cost a lot more,if you put these people under more stress,they end up with terrible illness,mostly Depression'so please there is no time to waste,sleep on it this weekendand make monday the 19 the d day for the unfortunites
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By: lulu_aust
16/05/2008
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| We Australians pay one of the highest taxes in the world because our pension is included in the taxes we pay. Why does a Labour Government treat the pensioners worse than the Government before. Living on $270.00 a week is nowadays impossible and shame on the new Government to treat the people who have contributed to the current wealth of Australia in such a way. A single pension should be at least $375.00 per week to ensure a life without worrying everyday how to pay for food and other things. |
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By: joe_veenstra
14/05/2008
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| Once again Govt.has seen fit to overlook the pensioners of all kinds.With the cost of food never having been higher and rising on top of petrol etc. What were you thinking Prime Minister Rudd and Treasurer Swan?This non-action by deliberately overlooking the socio economic lower class of us living on the poverty line,Will have big repurcussion for the Labor Party! Well done fellows!! |
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By: c_mabait99
14/05/2008
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hey guys........it doesnt matter whether its howard and costello or rudd and swan.....the point is, the federal budget 2008 is not fair and for me its dusgusting...I feel sorry for the people missing out, doesnt matter whether they're earning a kindom come or earning a LOW INCME ....and for the aged people, my heart goes out in you people coz i have a old aged parent who is now relying in gov's welfare after years of hard-work...
for the tax payers..., pls dont be so hard on those people who are low income earners or people on the welfares....government welfare, for your information is not that much actually to live on....with the inflation going on now, everyone is suffering, every single one of us...no one benefit the others....all of us are living in this country, trying to make ends meet as to whether high-income or low income.....the new government should RE-THINK their announced budget, and they should asked the public first before making decision like this....
to rudd government----------your people will suffer more than they are now...why dont you bloody put yourselves in our shoe, that way you will know! you inherit billions of dollars from costello's budget, then BLOODY USE IT INTO YOUR PEOPLE, NOT SOME BLOODY BUILDING, ROADS, ETC.....OUR LIVES IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR *** S! |
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By: lgloria39
14/05/2008
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Thanks for the $500 one off. Mr Rudd & Mr Swann try living off $262 per week, we need an increase, please.
You have the surplus, we are not asking for much. Show a little concern, we have worked, paid tax we should benefit. Do you have a conscience ? I hope you can sleep at night, we can't. NOT A FAIR BUDGET, WE HAVE MISSED OUT. |
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By: bremo123456
8/05/2008
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| You will be one someday you gutless person think about this when you get the same response from the taxpayers when you are on the pension |
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By: anthony_sadgrove
4/02/2008
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By: sykochicken
9/01/2008
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i agree with you all. Us disabled pensioners always get the short end of the stick and it's not just the federal budget it big finance as well I'm 22 and married and i have cp i don't get paid enough to get a small loan to buy a fridge and washing
everyone loves to kick the little guys when were dont |
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By: loco_driver46
15/06/2007
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Those that believe we will be better off under a new Government need to think again.I am a disabled war veteran and have had to fight both the Labour Government and now the Howard Government.
Veteran and no doubt all other pensioners incomes have eroded over the past 30 years regardless of who have Governed Australia.
There are war veterans from all wars,peace keeping etc having to fight tooth and nail to get their rightful compensation from the early 80's and it's getting harder each year.
Both the Labour and the Howard Government have made it so hard for war veterans to get their rightful entitlements by applying so much pressure on the veteran that many just give up the fight because of enormous stress the Government departments of the day put them under.
Veterans entitlements have been eroding for years since the mid 80's and still continue to do so.
It will not change under a new government,it is a downhill slide and will continue well into the future. |
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By: goyse_2000
3/06/2007
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I will earn $27,000 this year. Try putting that in your calculator & then lets hear "Something for everyone".
Besides the calculator give a false impression - it doesn't account for the medicare levy.
There's still a few more tax reductions required to make up for the GST this government promised we would never have! |
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By: graeme_longridge
30/05/2007
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hye
you people are unbalevable do u honstly think a new goverment will give you every little thing that you ask for. dont know if u all remember when labour was last in office but i am certantly better off here and i live on a pension pay rent and live within my means dont think labour ganna improve my lot
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By: graeme_longridge
30/05/2007
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well what can i say want me to come and help u pack
why u stay so long
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By: judyoz2001
15/05/2007
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| yes he did say interest rates would not go up and by the way iam not a liar and who are you to call me a liar. |
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By: abuelabed007
14/05/2007
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| The Australian People are gaining 5% of the Budget as the other 95% is going to war with Iraq and Afghanistan. There is $ 10 billion of surplus. I never trust this Government anymore as I'm a pensioner and I do not see the Howard is doing enough for his people. |
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By: the_whogg
14/05/2007
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By: the_whogg
14/05/2007
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Stillshooting, it's pretty simple. We keep voting for him because, notwithstanding the failures you vastly exaggerate*, he was perceived by the electorate as better than the alternative. From what I remember of Latham, Keating, Whitlam etc (not so much Hawke), I can't criticise the electorate too much for that decision.
The lefties can't believe we re-elected an apparently incompetent, dishonest govt, but they didn't complain when NSW did likewise for exactly the same reason.
*He was the first PM in history to change his mind BEFORE an election and actually give the electorate a chance to vote on an unpopular policy - an unprecedented act of honesty. And as for "Children Overboard", what actually happened was the parents deliberately sank the boat, not threw kids overboard. That's MORE dangerous - I can't see anything other than semantics in the lefties' position. |
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By: legges2000@btinternet.com
14/05/2007
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Well I'm sure glad I retained my old passport back in '57 so I could return to "where I came from". Even after paying my taxes to Australia for over 40 years I am still looked after better in Europe than I was in Oz and my pension is not means tested. Nice to have known you folks!
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By: langdon_janet
13/05/2007
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ghelon,
Hear, hear. Definitely a lot of spin going around in the liberal's budget |
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By: outbackbodywraps
11/05/2007
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| I agree we need a new leader. Preferably a female after all its proven through History that a female always cleans up after a male. So maybe we need a female to run the country to clean up the current mess .... |
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By: ghelon
11/05/2007
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| Rang Ian MacFarlane's Office in Toowoomba this morning to clarify the $500 payment to PENSIONERS - WHOOPS - I mean to SENIORS. Well done Howard, once again you forget the DISABLED. Liar. 500$ to SENIORS who you allow to be misreported as PENSIONERS. DISABILITY PENSIONERS pay for regular Scripts, Gap Fees and Health Insurance [the cost of which continues to escalate and which the Government does nothing to prevent] just to be sure they get medical help when it's needed; this coupled with the burden of out-of-control fuel increases and price hikes at the supermarket leave them with nothing. SENIORS live off Superannuation, most own their homes, have savings and don't live day to-to-day worrying about when they'll next be sick. Read the FINE PRINT Australians. Both Howard and Rudd are OUT OF TOUCH with reality. Hoodwinked again. |
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By: luckyphil65
11/05/2007
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| i am a single parent pensioner with 4 children and received not one cent more in this budget either. so much for something for everybody. i dont use childcare as i am the childcarer. I gave up my career when my wife died as any father would but it is really tough out here and i would like to see howard and costello having to go through the humiliation of visiting the salvation army for a helping hand just to feed your family. we have to beg for basic necessities. its disgusting. Shame on you howard and costello its time to get rid of an uncaring out of touch government. |
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By: stillshooting
11/05/2007
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Im still trying to figure out why over the past few years the Aussie public keep voting this guy back.
Our International reputation has gone down the drain, he couldnt give a hoot about the enviroment, he goes back on what he has promised, eg No GST, lied through his teeth about Children Overboard, got us into the Irak War which realy had nothing to do with us, threw money at peoplpe to buy votes, how much more do we have to take before we wake up. |
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By: praise_elicit
10/05/2007
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| The Americans are about to extinguish the burning Bush and flush the Cheyney. Are we going to re-elect the mob who turned a blind eye to the AWB funding Saddam to kill US soldiers? Is that in our best ongoing interest? |
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By: pol_pak
10/05/2007
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poppence, you sound like my neighbour who is stressing out about how to pay the phone bill...
We are lucky to live in Australia.
USA lack of support for those not so well off has a direct result.
Our firearms deaths and injuries are a lot lower.
USA Goverment may not "waste" money like our goverment dose, obviously not enough people in USA sees relationship between financially supporting lower income people and saving money from reducing crime and violence. |
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By: poppence
10/05/2007
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| I dont know why everyone except the disabled get a bonus either as a lump sum or in the form of tax relief or child care bonuses. Where is my lump sum? I had scurvy recently. Is this the sort of Australia you want? Where a blind pensioner not of retiring age can get SCURVY. |
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