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Politics

How about thinking of the elderly for a change ?

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ivanhoe · 30/11/2010 13:09

The middle classes have managed to put their case on the media map because of Child Benefit reductions.

Wheras the pensioners cause has never found a media voice.

So middle England are moaning about losing their Child benefit, and the media are picking up on it and discussing it as a topical issue, because the middle classes are making a fuss.

But hang on a minute ?, the poorest people in this country are not the middle classes, they are the working classes who in proportion to income are paying more taxes than the middle class, and the pensioners on a £5,000 a year State pension receiving a State pension which they have already paid for while working prior to their old age retirement are being ignored, even though the oldest pensioners fought for this country during the War years.

Our elderly people are the generation that government?s have run rough shod over for the past 30 years, this is the generation we should all be speaking up for, and this is the generation who have paid into the system all their working lives, but have to endure a basic State pension of £97 a week, and means tested handouts.

Many woman get less State pension due to lack of contributions while raising families.

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ivanhoe · 30/11/2010 14:00

///////You are not gong to get far with that arguement on here./////

I am fully aware that we live in a Society that doesnt give a fig for either it's pensioners or old age in general.

But there again todays middle classes were spawned from the most devisery, self centred arrogant, politician of all time in this country.

Her name I cannot even bring myself to write.

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ivanhoe · 30/11/2010 13:55

Housing wealth doesnt pay bills, and if you think the freebies help pay the bills you could not be more wrong.

What is needed is a decent State pension income, but middle England in the general sense seemingly are obsessed with number 1.

I know not all pensioners are rich or even well off (((((but on average they are compared to struggling middle income or low middle income families )))))

Utter rubbish. But typical.

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BeenBeta · 30/11/2010 13:16

You are not gong to get far with that arguement on here.

The people with all the housing wealth in this country are old people. The ones with the well funded public and private pensions, free TV licences, free bus passes, free prescriptions, free university eductaion for their DCs are the pensioners. Buying a sensible family house is the biggest problem most families have - and they are forced to buy them off pensioners who have paid a tiny fraction of the current asking price and with all the capital gains rolled up tax free.

The Public Spending Review did not touch pensioners at all. In fact thay got an extra benefit given to them as far as I recall.

I know not all pensioners are rich or even well off but on average they are compared to struggling middle income or low middle income families.