The very insincere apology was not good enough. My gripe is that our pollies entitlements should be known to the taxpayers and not written so vague that it can be rorted by our elected officials on both sides. 

Once they get on the gravy train we can't get them off. I say again, it does not cost $600 to fly from Sydney to Albury return.

The age of entitlement is over.

When the Abbott federal government tried to bring in six months without any welfare assistance for people who lost their jobs or couldn’t find one, most Australians found this cruel and nasty proposal outrageous.

It was blocked in the senate but cleverly the government and federal opposition forced unemployed people to work for the dole for about 25 weeks or they didn’t get welfare assistance.

This added a huge amount of slave labour to the work force.

Let’s be clear current unemployed benefits are rated below the poverty line so average Australians who can’t find work are forced into any sort of ugly job and may spend half their welfare on getting to that job in transport cost.

This cruelty is inflicted on our young people from the time they leave school or are kicked out of home to 30 years old.

Add to this is the government’s attempts to wipe out penalty rates and lower conditions of employment, something Labor has contributed as well.

Don’t be fooled by Labor, its Liberal in disguise.

Add thousand of 457 work visas including with no qualifications required and the insidious plan to lower average Australians to slave labour lifestyles is complete.

Big media has highlighted many distractions while helping Labour and the Liberal National politicians feed the elephant in the room; the wealthy man’s elephant.

Pope Francis named it: greedy capitalism.

May that act may one day cost him his life?    

YOU really have to wonder if logic is used to run this country anymore.

It's bad enough that computers are taking over human jobs and  more jobs are being outsourced to overseas countries, thereby leaving less available for our youth. 

To force the retirement age rise on people means that even less jobs are becoming available to our young school leavers.

Even local councils can't operate on any sort of logic.

If you have three bins, two large and one small, logic dictates that the smaller one needs emptying weekly.  

Even driving, we can't escape the illogical decisions of government. 

How frustrating sitting at a red turn arrow when nothing is coming the other way and wasting all that petrol. A few right turn arrows in Albury turn off after a few seconds and it works well.

Why not have all red turn arrows do that or is it too logical. 

Illogical decisions by government are forced onto us, but it seems ours is not to question but do as they say, no matter how ridiculous.

THE so called analysis by Paul McLoughlin in Thursday’s Border Mail is one of the worst pieces of journalism ever printed in the paper.

How can someone get this issue so wrong? Is he serious in his statement that ‘booing Goodes is racist borders on the ridiculous’.

His whole piece was ridiculous, as well as being shallow, cliched and patronising.

It was made worse by publishing it next to Jonathon Holmes’ brilliant article.

McLoughlin’s prose comes straight from the Alan Jones handbook and wouldn’t look out of place in a Murdoch tabloid.

This issue is now being taken up by the people that really count, the players and coaches of the AFL.

Hopefully they will influence the “critical and witty supporters” in the outer and we will hear no more pathetic diatribes from Mr McLoughlin.