"len gardener" wrote in message

we are on a pension and as the gov wants to stay in power they have
figured a way to fiddle the books and make it look like our infaltion
rate is running at around 3 & 4%, which it isn't! in the last periods
fuel has risen by 60% min, fresh meats have risen by 25+%, processed
food around 15% and in one stint powdered milk went up near on 30%,
then there is the every increasing insurances, road taxes, license fee
(now $60aud for 5 years), line rentals for the phone and the list goes
on but none of those things has rise by just 3 or 4%. line rentals are
around 6% pa medical insurance 11% or thereabouts, so we just can't
find that one thing that has only risen by around 4% so we can live
off of it. oh i forgot to mention rates and fire levies all increase
by at least 10% p.a, the list of thngs you gotta pay is endless.

our pensions are tied to the cpi.

so now ya know. all pensioners are suffering.

And not just pensioners. My allowance is buying less all the time. but
then I don'e believe anything this governement says and I certainly don't
believe what they say about unemployment either - "Lowest unemployment in 28
years" In a pig's ear it's the lowest - the mongrel government just changed
how they counted the unemployed when they came to power.