OK, will post this - not written by me, but seems to be pottering around the internet, and caught my interest.
Mainly due to "Honest Joe's" claim (or policy intention) that
"... the age of entitlement" is over.
Will also accept that the requests have Buckley's chance of happening.
Proposals
to make politicians and bureaucrats 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 31/12/14. 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 honour 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!
If
you agree with the above, pass it on. If not, just delete.
Um, don't delete, that bit came with the circular email from which this was 'copied' and 'pasted'..
It also fascinates me that politicians - or the current Federal lot - refuse to believe that they, themselves, are also paid - same as 'welfare' recipients - out of Australian COMMONWEALTH funds.
4 comments:
Great stuff, keep it circulated, it may breed a few ideas, maybe a referendum would be the only way past the pollies demands.
Nah, 'tis Australia. Who gives a shit - er, um, i do, every morning. Inspect the shit. Is it brown or red. Is ithur soft or hard.
Not wishing to go into a long discussion about guts and gut feeling .....
Anthony John Abbot may well have the subliminal intention to take Australia back to the feudal notion of the Roman Imperial Church circa - 1100 CE (christian era) (and you will notice that self cannot use the year AD (anno dominie).
O, o, o where has broad spectrum "education' gone?
Here I am Wasting my precioud time again to no avail.
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