Editor, SMH: With 2 million angry pensioners on his trail, perhaps Peter Mair would do well to disappear for a while (‘Pensioners fume at welfare fraud claims’, SMH, 25 September 2012)?
Given Mr Mair’s irresponsible claims, we will now doubtless witness a spate of home invasions & pensioner assaults, as organised crime goes about the business of locating the alleged hidden hordes of cash, squirreled-away by the frail & elderly. With that in-mind, the former Reserve Bank official might well have to extend his travels, as police, politicians & thousands of angry families decide to assist the pensioners in locating him.
More seriously, perhaps Mr Mair’s opinions might be worth listening to, if they went to the alleged criminal behaviour of his former Reserve Bank colleagues & the failure of the federal government & ASIC to address that growing scandal, rather than unfounded accusations against our senior citizens, which have all the appearance of a cynically manufactured stalking horse being clumsily used to justify the removal of the $100 note from our currency.
– John Richardson, CLA member, Wallagoot NSW