USA Pensioners verses Australian Pensioners

This is in response to 67 year-old Social Security Recipient: "We're not living, we're just existing"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2bYGMPM-I8 links to the Australian Welfare site Centrelink http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/payments/age_rates.htm http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/payments/dsp_rates.htm
http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/home/index.htm

Link explaining prescription rates in Australia http://www.australianprescriber.com/magazine/32/1/6/8/

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[PureAussieGold]

Mate i posted a video response to your video, mainly because i feel its necessary to show what happens when (scum) abuse the system in Australia. plz read the description in my video to get a better idea of my views (eg. not every1 abuses the system, and i feel sorry for those who genuinely are suffering and in need) thanks for your time.

[franks2732]

@PureAussieGold Hi I watched your video on "public housing" which is a reflection of changes to the system over the last 20-30 years. Not the majority of Public Housing tenants. I have worked trying to expose how these new changes have effected thousands but to no avail. I will do a video response to yours. Today public houses are not given out on need by a basis of wealth but on a need on a basis of social dysfunction. The more socially fucked you are, the more likely you are to get a house tbc

[franks2732]

@PureAussieGold Secondly nearly every house in every "state" public housing is now controlled by the "welfare industry". The houses are owned by the government but managed by private NGO's. If you ever watched "Shameless" Just think Shameless x 10 times worse. So simply being "a low income earner" does not qualify you for public housing. You must have x , x , & x problems to begin with. So you now have "drug addicts" x cons, single mums who assholes blokes, etc all living in the one street.

[franks2732]

@franks2732 I mean single mums with asshole x husbands

[imonthebox]

Does anybody know this guys email address ?

[imonthebox]

@unassumption As the guy said in his broadcast, what is being ignored is the tax contrIbution pensioners have made all their working lives.

Pensioners should not be treated shabbily like they are in Australia, here in the UK, and in the USA.

[imonthebox]

Hi Mate, its the same for UK pensioners. Im 63 now, and have been campaigning for UK State pensoners rights to a much higher State pension for over 20 years, the UK s State pension for single pensioners is just £97 a week, and linked to inflation, not earnings.

Please go to my U-tube broadcasts by writing into the U-tube sever the following.

imonthebox.

Cheers

Michael

[unassumption]

I only know people who have enough money to have internet access in the US but it's enough to better understand and care about what's going on there. Getting the information out there and bringing people from different classes, races and nations together is a great benefit of the net IMO

People act like every 'welfare state' is the same they differ very considerably. Interested in how much you pay in.

As someone who gets benefits I don't think I really need, we need to cut some of this stuff.

[unassumption]

States also offer welfare though it differs from state to state; a friend in California got glasses and dental work he needed from medical, though a friend in Wisconsin who similarly needs those things can't get them because of no local state programmes. His dad got state disability not federal too. I don't want to compare it to civil rights but it seems similar. As a Brit it's interesting to see the differences in other countries systems - even within systems with the same name.