A local community member Sheilagh from Mount Druitt, has messaged myself through Face Book Messenger and is showing her frustration, that will be the same for the elderly Australians that have paid their due taxes.
" The Pension Assets Test to be
implemented on 1 January 2017.
So here's fair warning to all politicians of any persuasion, this
group of aged voters may be about to make the greatest impact on any Federal
election in history, ignoring them may be the start of a changed political
environment in this country.
Click here for Assets Test For Australian Pensioners - Australian Government
Change the Entitlements
I absolutely agree, if a pension isn't an entitlement, neither is
theirs. They keep telling us that paying us an aged pension isn't
sustainable.
Paying politicians all the perks they get is even less sustainable!
The politicians themselves, in Canberra, brought it up, that the Age of
Entitlements is over:
The author is asking each addressee to forward this email to a
minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to
do likewise. In three days, most people in Australia will have this message.
This is one idea that really should be passed around because the rot has to
stop somewhere.
Proposals to make politicians shoulder their share of the weight now
that the Age of Entitlement is over:
1. Scrap political pensions.
Politicians can purchase their
own retirement plan, just as most
other working
Australians are expected to do.
2. Retired politicians (past, present & future) participate
in Centrelink.
A Politician collects a substantial salary
while in office but
should receive no salary when they're
out of office.
Terminated politicians under 70 can go get a
job or apply for
Centrelink unemployment benefits like
ordinary Australians.
Terminated politicians under 70 can
negotiate with Centrelink like
the rest of the Australian
people.
3. Funds already allocated to the Politicians' retirement fund
be
returned immediately to Consolidated Revenue.
This
money is to be used to pay down debt they created which
they
expect us and our grandchildren to repay for them.
4. Politicians will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.
Politicians pay will rise by the lower of, either the CPI or
3%.
5. Politicians lose their privileged health care system and
participate in the same health care system as ordinary
Australian people.
i.e. Politicians either pay for private
cover from their own funds
or accept ordinary Medicare.
6. Politicians must equally abide by all laws they impose on
the
Australian people.
7. All contracts with past and present Politicians men/women
are
void effective 31/12/16. The Australian people did not
agree to provide perks to Politicians,
that burden was
thrust upon them.
Politicians devised all these contracts to
benefit themselves.
Serving in Parliament is an honor not
a career.
The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen
legislators, so our
politicians should serve their term(s),
then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people, then it will
only take three or so days for most Australians to receive the message.
Don't you think it's time?
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX Parliament and help bring fairness back into
this country!"
Editors Notes: Although this idea may seem ridiculous for a majority of politicians, this would be widely accepted by the general public. I would like to get a response from our local Federal Member, Ed Husic, Member for Chifley? Would he be the first memmber of parliament to bring this idea into the Federal Lower House, of our Australian Governmennt?
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