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Re: General Discussions

Reply #2610 –
Quote from: LP – on
Quote from: ElwoodBlues1 – on
Chalmers buying votes by allowing workers to claim $1,000 in deductions without any receipts needed. Labor just cant stop spending and adding to inflation and high debt levels.
True, but clinging onto that stuff when it's really just a drop in the ocean excuses the absence of any real opposition.

Economies work on 3 or even 4 orders of magnitude higher as the bare minimum.

A $1000 sounds great to those struggling, but it's not even covering the fuel rises for the average worker.

Let alone the shoeboxes that can now go to recycling.
Let’s go BIG !

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2611 –
The Albanese Government is drawing a line in the sand favouring younger Australians over older Australians, telling around 3 million over-65s that they will pay the same amount for private health insurance as younger Aussies.
The Howard-era government in 2004 introduced an extra incentive for older Australians to keep them in private health care and reduce the pressure on the public hospital system. These bonus rebates reduced the effective costs of private health insurance for this group by 30–40%.
Chalmers has admitted there is a risk older Aussies will bail on their Private health Insurance and go back to the public system forcing Health Insurers to raise their premiums even more and put the Public health system under more pressure but says he sees this as a way of evening up intergenerational wealth.
Its clear Labor believes many older voters favour the Coalition or One Nation now and thats their main focus on cost savings.
Of course he has already indicated the NDIS will take a hit next budget too so if you are old and disabled look out you might get turned into biscuits to feed the young if we have a famine anytime soon.....see Soylent Green the movie.

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Reply #2612 –
It's not a recent development, Paul Keating went through the public health system while still on the political front line!

FWIW, I think the 20 - 30 year old segment needs incentives to again take politics seriously, if not they all end up voting for Hanson and that will be even worse for Australia than Brexit or MAGA. Australia does not have the economic scale or inertia to withstand that sort of destructive politics.

All this media commentary about "Draining the swamp" is utter garbage, they post that because they are overpaid fatties who think the consequences of provoking turmoil won't affect them. They are a bunch of mini-Kyles who have opinions bigger than their ar5e!

But you know the media will be the front-line bleaters when the economic consequences of political turmoil hit their wallet.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"
 

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2613 –
ANZAC Day

I had the honour of being the marshall for the march that kicks off our local ANZAC Day commemoration.  I think it was a matter of not stepping back when volunteers were asked to step forward.

Anyway, the highlight of the march was having Jack, a 101 year old Second World War veteran marching with us.  Jack had family members there to support him but he waved them away and completed the march under his own steam.  Truly inspirational!

Lest we forget!
"Negative waves are not helpful. Try saying something righteous and hopeful instead." Oddball

Re: General Discussions

Reply #2614 –
Is it true the left are genuinely calling for that security guard to sacked, the guard who defended himself and the public from the smartar5e bottle throwing shoplifter?

Do the do-gooders really think the relative size matters when a youth could just as easily held a knife or machete? Do they expect the guards to find out the answer to that question before neutralising the situation?

One of the areas I visit have taken to employing athletic giants as checkout security. Male and female, Amazons, Africans, all well over 190cm, physically impressive, imposing, one of the girls looks like a 195cm African Brook Shields, and they are not afraid of apprehending kids and they are actually capable of apprehending the kids as opposed to the older style discount security. I got to talking to them and they tell me at first they only hired men, but the crooks stated sending teenage girls in the lift mechanise, so now they employ both male and female guards. They said the kids aren't too bright, often rolling up to the stores in oversized puffer jackets on 34°C days!

I hope the authorities look after the security for just doing their job, and yes I think they should be able to use reasonable force to defend themselves, protect the public and uphold the law.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"

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Reply #2615 –
Quote from: LP – on
Is it true the left are genuinely calling for that security guard to sacked, the guard who defended himself and the public from the smartar5e bottle throwing shoplifter?

Do the do-gooders really think the relative size matters when a youth could just as easily held a knife or machete? Do they expect the guards to find out the answer to that question before neutralising the situation?

One of the areas I visit have taken to employing athletic giants as checkout security. Male and female, Amazons, Africans, all well over 190cm, physically impressive, imposing, one of the girls looks like a 195cm African Brook Shields, and they are not afraid of apprehending kids and they are actually capable of apprehending the kids as opposed to the older style discount security. I got to talking to them and they tell me at first they only hired men, but the crooks stated sending teenage girls in the lift mechanise, so now they employ both male and female guards. They said the kids aren't too bright, often rolling up to the stores in oversized puffer jackets on 34°C days!

I hope the authorities look after the security for just doing their job, and yes I think they should be able to use reasonable force to defend themselves, protect the public and uphold the law.
Whatever happened to you f..k around you find out?

not to allow violence or anything, but you know, if a kid cops it from a security guard, once upon a time, my parents would turn to me, and ask what did you do?  If they deemed it unreasonable, I copped punishment from them on top of what they would have copped from the authorities/powers that be.

"everything you know is wrong"

Paul Hewson

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Reply #2616 –
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Whatever happened to you f..k around you find out?

not to allow violence or anything, but you know, if a kid cops it from a security guard, once upon a time, my parents would turn to me, and ask what did you do?  If they deemed it unreasonable, I copped punishment from them on top of what they would have copped from the authorities/powers that be.
As an aside, I have a friend who in an earlier life was a store manager for one of the big three. I'm not sure if it applies now, but he told me back then that security were not allowed to touch the kids who they thought were shoplifting, just observe and report. Not for the reasons you probably think, but because if the guard got injured in any way they could sue the employer, so the store wanted to avoid liability, a situation caused by lawyers.
"Extremists on either side will always meet in the Middle!"