Friday, Apr 11, 2008 at 22:51
Steve,
My comment was probably uncalled for and for that I apologise.
But have a look at your thread, if you want to ask a question about the cost of travel in retirement, then ask the question. What it has to do with the 200 Series Landcruiser is beyond me.
You seem to be happy to make generalisations about people living in our cities as being 'betters' to the 'great unwashed'. Well if you think that living in our big cities is such a rort then move to one, and you will soon discover that there are plenty of people doing it every bit as tough as in other areas. Next time I pass a homeless person in
Canberra (and there are plenty) I will be sure to tell him that he is lucky to be in the ACT and that he should stop doing so well at the expense of 'real Australians'.
Has the relative value of our retirement funding decreased? I honestly don't know, but I suspect not. There will always be people doing it tough (and always has been) just as there will always be those who are comfortable. When my Grandmother retired she couldn't afford a top of the range vehicle either, and nor could my parents. Yet there were still those who could. What then do you think has changed?
Two points for the record. Not all people in the ACT are politicians or bureaucrats sponging of real Australians. Secondly, I grew up on a Dairy Farm not far from where you are and watched the agony of my parents going
broke and having to sell their farm (and their dreams with it) just to keep the bank off their back. I know what it is to be without money my friend so please don't accuse me of somehow being isolated from your 'real Australians' simply because you have some ill-informed concept of what everyone in the ACT is like.
Hide behind my anonymity? If you have any clues as to who I really am I would be fascinated to know myself. Perhaps I am the heir to some great fortune only I don't know about it yet? Please let me know because I will whip out tomorrow and order that TD V8 200 Series I have been wanting.
Matt.
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