Comments on: Ageing of the population not solved by high immigration

By: Tony Ryan

Tony Ryan — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:29:40 +0000

People need to come to terms with the reality that the vast majority of politicians have no idea what’s going on. Their every utterance is prepared by spin doctors, who ultimately follow orders from the bankers.

We elect a bunch of puppets with banker’s arms up their arses.

Anyone who thinks this is democracy talks out of the same place the banker’s arms go.

By: Shockadelic

Shockadelic — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:37:47 +0000

Does it occur to our “leaders” that migrants may in fact be contributing to the aging problem?
By the time most people migrate they are already half way through their reproductive and occupational lifespans.

By: Tony Ryan

Tony Ryan — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:05:45 +0000

Dead right R Dub.

We all need to sport t-shirts saying SORRY, AUSTRALIA IS FULL, & AUSTRALIA… NO VACANCIES.

By: R Dub

R Dub — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:07:01 +0000

Regardless of population ageing. This country cannot support a larger population, of any age. We are overloaded on resources already, natural and man made. ie. Water, Food production, Health care, Power, as in electricity.
No more immigration till this is all sorted!

By: Tony Ryan

Tony Ryan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:46:59 +0000

A study a decade or so ago showed that far from being an asset, migrants are a drain on the economy for an average of 20 years before becoming moving into the black. But many, especially Lebanese and Vietnamese are a permanent liability. Chinese will always be, because they send our money home to China, or cheat Aussies who they regard as ‘foreign devils’.

Secondly, the aging population does not need to be carried by the young. In 1945 there was a referendum to approve the spirit and functions of the Social Services Act, which was passed accordingly in 1946. This authorised a 7.5% (1/6 in the 1£) special levy to be paid into the Welfare Fund. It is still being paid by every worker today. This was an inviolate interest-earning fund sacrosanct from Government meddling or fiddling of the till. Only another referendum could alter this arrangement.

Nevertheless, Bob Menzies ratted this fund, illegally diverting it into Consolidated Revenue, and Paul Keating applied means-testing on age pensioner’s own compulsory savings. Both acts were dishonest and absolutely illegal.

Of more urgency is not to have more parasitical and job swallowing migrants to further upset our Aussie culture, but to reinstate the legitmate Age Pension, which acturaries evidently have identified as worth $6000 more than age pensioners are receiving today. In other words, every age pensioner in Australia suffers the theft of $6000 every year by these dispicable criminals we call politicians.

Why do we tolerate this? A thieving, dishonest government has lost its right to our tolerance. If we Aussies are real men or women we will kick them out now and install a Caretaker Government made up of former and still respected senior public servants and the few surviving honest politicians.

Only this time, we must make sure these listen to the people.

By: PaulH

PaulH — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:41:17 +0000

Treasury’s “But increased migration cannot prevent our population from ageing. This is because migrants who come to Australia will age along with the rest of the population. To maintain Australia’s existing age structure through immigration would require increases in immigration every year — and the increases would need to become progressively larger and larger to take account of the ageing of the migrants themselves. While there are undoubted benefits in maintaining net overseas migration, migration cannot stop the ageing of our population.” exposes the whole arguement in all its phoniness. This has to be just about the biggest Ponzi scheme in the world