You can never have enough...

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The reality is taxes are not specifically put towards super. It is not a pension scheme. Funds are allocated from general taxation, so my lovely husband who paid huge taxes because he had that kind of work never got to benefit from them. But I did. So this contribution argument is total rubbish.

Super is a benefit like all the others. Sure, some of us worked all our lives and others just raised kids to do that in the future, or were limited in their opportunities to earn big money for various reasons. All contributed. No one in this society gets away without doing so. We each have a role, we each contribute.

Some of us were able to provide for our old age without help. We were blessed to have that privilege. Others faced different challenges and are forced to rely on help. They are blessed to be able to access that help.

When I hear people proudly pronounce they use the Winter Energy Payment for beer money, my eyebrows go up, because I know people who use it to buy firewood, and when that runs out they just go to bed early on a Winter evening. To stay warm.

Need is a variable feast it seems, one man's need is not like anothers. But really, we are the luckiest people on the planet. About time we were grateful don't you think?

Sorry. Rant over...

Another excellent rant.   Thank you, it needs to be said again and again because so many  people just don't get it, and many others find it politically convenient to not get it.