Shun the US

SO we are now to suffer the consequences of America’s “freedom” to subject the peoples of the world to the consequences of uncontrolled climate-change pollution. Our response should be to demonstrate that we will have nothing to do with the US until such time as that country is able to act as a responsible global citizen.

Obsessed

HOBART City Council continues its obsession to change Australia Day knowing it will fail. Ratepayers would hope it puts as much effort into building the Battery Point walkway along with private enterprise running the Taste.

Centrelink visit

NOT having to visit Centrelink very often, we trotted off last week to honour them with our presence. It was a virtually vacant building when we first became “elderly”. Only a few desks were occupied and both areas where people are people are told to wait were full. The receptionist greeted us with the comment that they couldn’t help us there and we had to ring the senior citizens’ line. Moan groan! We were told 8am was best time to ring. We came home and tried straight away. I almost fainted as I got through immediately. With all the negative comments about Centrelink we had a positive experience.

Get a job

HERE are a few suggestions to those who received a pay up notice — cancel the next tattoo appointment, give up the fags, stop feeding the pokie machines and cut back on the booze. There, issue resolved in our war on welfare handouts.