have you worked it out yet Jane ?

Read my posts please.

Jane.... I get enough emails to indicate I am not a fence sitter.... I saw that post as unnecessarily rude and nasty, that is how I read it...that is my opinion.

I can make any stance I choose.... as you did... you posted, I commented, that is how it works and I don't care who you are, that would still be my comment.

I don't think posters are stupid because I don't agree with them, if they annoy me to that point, I skim past.

JANE , I believe you have taken what IZA said about her son and sister out of context.  I think that is what TWINKLES is referring to as well.

I also agree with IZA that your post was offensive, as was your last one, I would not describe them as simply being blunt at all.

I do agree with some of the points you made in that long post, but the way you put it was not nice.

I skim past posts that I don't wish to read generally, usually works for me...

Before we all start getting too precious about how the Government should or should not be spending our hard earned cash there is something we would all do well to remember. Every single one of us here - working or not - is a taxpayer. Every time we buy a bar of chocolate, go to the cinema, put petrol in our car, pay our gas or electricity bill or hire a tradesman we pay tax. So while Jane's taxes may be supporting Iza,grandchildren, Iza's taxes are subsidising the education of Azureline's grandchildren, Az's taxes are subsidising my pension, my taxes are subsidising Freddie's medical treatment and Freddie's taxes are subsidising Crikey's law studies. 

It's a circle of mutual dependence and assistance -so to show our support for Freddie, I reckon we should all go out and buy two bars of chocolate every day next week.

I too am not happy with the new tax but as mlor said low income earners will support it as it will not affect them greatly, middle income earners will be the ones hardest hit and people on benefits probably wont contribute at all.

If I thought it would go completely and without a lot of waste to the disability scheme then I would be happy to pay 1% which should fund it without coming back for more.

I still dont think the government has the figures right anyway.

I'm quite happy to pay the average. Sick to death of paying so much more because we have chosen to make sacrifices (husband not home every night)

Why the hell should we pay more for something we are less likely to need , and that is if it isn't means tested. We might be paying for something we cant use anyway.

Wow no need to get nasty if you are against it then fine, everyone is entitled to an opinion.

Jane I think what comes around goes around, you need to remember that today's pensioners paid taxes in their day to fund many things so I am not sure that's really an argument.

The other thing is I was reading about some of the things the NDIS would cover, bear in mind that the existing services that cover some of those things that will probably be either scrapped or combined into the scheme ie aides and equipment that currently funds some of the things listed.

The bottom line is in this country at the moment there is little support for those who are severely disabled and unable to support themselves.  Often parents support them all their lives but the day comes when they die and can no longer do so.  We need a safety net to protect these people, currently its pathetic and does little for them.

I think by adequately supporting the severely disabled it will free up nursing homes and other services thus actually improving health in this country overall.

Personally I'd like to see all the state surrender state supports and funds to pool into the NDIS and see disability packages come out of that instead.

here it is.... Worked it out yet????? *sigh*  ;\

The fact of the matter is that I clearly stated somewhere that I have both male and female homosexual friends, as well as black/coloured friends, so can someone please tell me how that makes me both racist and having a down on gays?

A couple or so weeks back someone was boasting to me on here about their time in the UK waving banners and protesting in front of the South African embassy in London in support of the downfall of apartheid while asking me what I was doing at the same time concerning the issues in my original homeland, SA.

What I didn't bother making clear then (because I didn't think it was anyone else's business) was that I was in and out of SA from the UK, Australia and Kenya risking my life (together with others like me) smuggling out both blacks and whites who we knew were at extreme risk of being murdered just because they happened to think differently to those both in power at the time, and those who wanted to be. 

I will be returning to SA via Kenya later this year when I will be escorting some much needed medical supplies into SA that a group of like minded people living here in Australia and I know many more black Africans will die without, because I have never turned my back on my original homeland, and never shall.

That's my personal idea of a holiday lol.

I have never cared what the colour of anyone's skin is, or their sexual preference just so long as they respect my personal way of thinking and being.

LT.... you need to get a hobby......do you ever have an opinion about something other than me?

My kids don't do that.... sorry to disappoint... but then, you know that don't you?

I have my own set of guidelines.....