Comments on: Now I am angry

By: Grandad

Grandad — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:12:24 +0000

There seems to be an movement in most governments that say that if you have any money, then they are entitled to it. Anyone who has an income or a healthy bank balance which has been achieved by a lifetimes hard work is none of their business. They do NOT have any entitlements whatsoever.

I paid into my pension fund at a time when I really could not afford to do so, but I did it on the simple understanding that when I retired I would be paid a reasonable sum every month. It is my pension paid out of my pension fund that I paid for out of my wages. Any attempt to take any part of that pension is theft, pure and simple.

By: joysness

joysness — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:20:24 +0000

So well said Grandad!
It’s the same here in the US. The Repuglicans (not an error in spelling) keep screaming about how they have to do away with all these “entitlements” like Social Security and Medicare. Like “entitlements” is a bad word.
Of course I’m bloody entitled to them, you stupid gits, I paid into them every fucking payday for 40 years. That’s my money!
What the hell!
Yet so many lemmings in this country just keep voting these jerks into office and wondering why the country is collapsing around them.
Idjits.
Thanks for the rant space.

By: Ger

Ger — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:37:07 +0000

The Chinese people are practitioners of spartan living. I see in these dying autumnal days lots of wiry little pensioner women of peasant demeanour busily gathering wild leafy plants – not dissimilar to young dandelion leaves – to take home and stir-fry in oyster sauce. I see old men along rivers and canals with fishing lines. They catch little silver ones from the murky green water the size of minnows and sprats. When they’ve caught twenty or so they carry them home swimming in a plastic bucket, to stirfry in oyster sauce, soya sauce or something of unknown exotic provenance. This free food that nature bestows, Grandad, seems to supplement what trifling pensions these people worked forty years for during Mao’s revolutionary days.

I have read your cri de coeur about the Irish state wanting to tax your pension. If it does I can see a future where thousands of men aged 60+ spend their mornings catching sprats and eels from the Royal Canal; and I have visions of thousands of grandmas roaming the fields and city parks harvesting dandelion leaves. That could lead to a run on the sale of rubber underwear too.

That guy Hayes has got to be stopped. Incontinence on a national level is too unthinkable to think about.

By: Slab

Slab — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 08:10:36 +0000

GD….I have my hurley ready and sharpened…..just give the word

By: Grandad

Grandad — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:11:23 +0000

Caratacus - What really pissed me about that gobshite was his attitude - "Hey! These people have money! Haw dare they. We have to take it off them immediately" It seems to be a common thread running through most countries these days. We are all apparently just mindless drones waiting to be mugged and robbed at will.

Slab - When the fuck is the revolution starting? I have had enough of this.

By: Slab

Slab — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:15:20 +0000

So Fucking right GD

By: Caratacus

Caratacus — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:10:36 +0000

Jesus Grandad, you speak for thousands – including over here in Perf. Albion.Could you bellow this gently into the earhole of Mrs. Cameron’s little boy? The bastard seems to think that we are just a load of open wallets to be emptied.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:48:13 +0000

Heh! Do you think I haven’t already investigated that little game? I only have one shot at this life lark and I intend to make the most of it!

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:35:09 +0000

You’re right too GD. Don’t leave a penny to any of the offspring.

I tells the mother to do the same.. we’ll always have to the house.
(to sell to pay for a nursing home, at the first smell of pee off her )

Come to think of it, you know what seems pretty popular in the U,S. now, is these reversable mortgages aimed at pensioners, who’ve paid off their mortgages but need a little extra income.
They pay you so much every month till you pop – there or thereabouts – then they get to keep your house.
You could tell no one.. just don’t go too mad with your extra few bob every month.. they won’t know till it’s too late.

By: Grandad

Grandad — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 19:23:27 +0000

Feck off outa that! You should be ashamed of yourself. My daughter tried at that game and failed. Now I'm spending her inheritance.