Quote from: caskur on May 03, 2024, 02:54:40 PMMedicare is capped... a Millionaire does not have to pay the 2% they pay less... and I don't know the ins and outs of every circumstance nor wish to actually.


Millionaires have sick children with celebral palsy and cystic fibrosis and brain cancer and a multitude of different afflictions and Mr and Mrs Average worker on their 40 or 50,000 a year help pay for a millionaires child's hospital stays and Drs.


The rich are not special and aren't treated that way.

Australia pays for our sick and has plenty of money left over to help the sick in different countries.

Anyone who knocks our system like the two dickheads in this thread can go shovel sand up their arse.

I'd rather point out that you shot yourself in the foot by tacitly admitting in your post above that not everyone pays the same for medical treatment in that third world hovel you are so unjustly proud of. Since you admit that not everyone pays the same, DKG's, Frood's and my own assertion stands; your Muddlecare system is inherently corrupt for charging some more than others for the same crappy service.

Now do continue to make all the excuses under the sun as to why this ought to be the case and prove to us thereby that you don't merely lean left, you are in fact a socialist who would cheer for her masters to exert totalitarian control over the populace while they ready the next round of experiments, my obedient little genetically modified pincushion.

Even while they're siphoning off tax dollars from the healthcare system to pay for natural disasters because they overspent on donations to foreign couintries to run drone strikes on aid workers. Which reminds me, has the ICC let your "democratically elected" Prime Mincer off the hook for that yet?

I mean don't we have bigger things to worry about than the affordability of food for the lower income families in the state?

There are mens public bathrooms which do not provide taxpayer funded tampons !

and even more horrifying, there exists, in many areas of this country public women's bathrooms which do not have urinals!! Can you believe such a travesty of justice? So what is a transman do to when he needs to pee in front of little girls? Do his business sitting down in a toilet stall like the other women in that bathroom are doing?

surely you fucking jest!!!

Stop your whining says the fat pig who went bankrupt and leeches off the taxpayer

boo hoo to yoo snowflake says the sissy crippled queer who sucks cocks and also collects a government to sit on his dick cushion all day crying about trump

non-sequitor says the bobble headed retard who left this state for this very same reason

muy-exotica says the fumbling retard who cannot tell the difference between a chick with a dick and a real woman

Justine calls his Liberal Party a movement and that movement is centered around him. Well, seventy percent of Canadians want the movement centered around him gone.

In two of the latest polls, including one for the proggy Toronto Star, Justine was at 23 percent and the Conservatives at 44 percent. How the hell does Jagmeet Singh sleep at night propping up the Justine movement that most of us want gone.

No good for eating unless you've got 6-7 of them and a bamboo skewer...

It aint working. It is all pain for no gain. Not that drastically reducing our insignificant emissions should have been a serious priority.

I fot this from pressreader.

Despite assurances from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government that Canada's industrial greenhouse gas emissions would follow a steady downward path in the wake of the 2020 COVID-19 recession, new federal data released May 2 shows the opposite is happening.

This raises serious questions about the credibility of the Liberals' climate change program, to which they have committed more than $200 billion of taxpayers' money earmarked for more than 100 government programs, including the federal carbon tax, currently $80 per tonne of emissions, rising to $170 per tonne in 2030.

Contrary to what the Liberals previously predicted, the latest data shows Canada's emissions rose again in 2022 (federal reporting is always two years after the fact) to 708 million tonnes, up from 698 million tonnes in 2021 which was up from 686 million tonnes in 2020.

This means Canada is moving further away from Trudeau's target of reducing emissions to at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030.

Cutting emissions was the reason Trudeau said he introduced his federal carbon tax in 2019, which increases the cost of almost all goods and services because almost all of them consume fossil fuel energy.

What has happened flies in the face of what then-environment minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the Globe and Mail three years ago, when he said 2019 would be Canada's last year of rising emissions and going forward there would be "year-on-year reductions – absolute reductions – starting in 2020, through to 2030."

It's true emissions dropped in 2020 compared to 2019 because of the pandemic recession, but ever since then they've been increasing.

Keeping track of Trudeau's target of reducing emissions to at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030 is difficult, because the feds constantly change emissions from previous years retroactively, saying it's due to improving measuring methods.

Last year, the feds said 2005 emissions were 732 million tonnes. This year they say it was 761 million tonnes.

Using the newest figures, Canada's emissions have only decreased by 7% compared to 2005 levels, compared to Trudeau's target of at least 40% by 2030.

While the Trudeau government was frantically putting a positive spin on the latest numbers Thursday, in reality it's the same old story — the carbon tax keeps going up and so do our emissions.

This is an Australian striated pardalote. Striated means striped. It is very small, around the size of a wren. They are not easily photographed because of their size and the fact that they stay in shadow most of the time because they are rather easy prey for our raptor population.

A Wisconsin teacher was arrested this week over allegations that she engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a 5th-grade student.

Police arrested 24-year-old Madison Bergmann, a teacher at River Crest Elementary in Hudson, Wisconsin, on Wednesday after receiving information "regarding inappropriate conduct between a current teacher and a 5th grade student," according to WCCO-TV.

That information came from the 11-year-old student's parents, who had discovered evidence of the inappropriate relationship from text messages between their son and Bergmann. Police said the text messages included details about the alleged relationship, which included "kissing, touching, and making out."

Filibuster against $4B Missouri Medicaid bill ends

A dayslong filibuster ended Thursday in the Missouri Senate after Republicans allowed a vote on a Medicaid program worth over $4 billion.

Source: Filibuster against $4B Missouri Medicaid bill ends

I have been to Spain dozens of times. My kid brother is an overseas toolpush living in Portugal with his Italian-Argie old lady and their kids.

Spain and Portugal are cheap by West European standards. So is Southern Italy. But, most of the countries that made up the former Yugoslavia are cheaper.

Are pensions quite limited in Australia caskur askur?

I guess pensions stretch further in Spain than Australia eh?