So wrong

[derek kelly]

went for a meal last night with our good friends & next door neighbours.
Melanie’s father is 92 & has terminal cancer, he is living in a council house in Wakefield, he worked all his life as a self employed butcher & was always meticulous regarding paying bills/tax etc.
He has a carer comes to him twice a day who stays for no more than ten minutes, Melanie travels over to feed him, he has been in & out of hospital due to falls.
Melanie has been told that her father has less than a month & probably less than a week to live & as such his care is now end of life care.
The chap who lives over the road to her father is in a similar situation but is not at end of life care stage yet, this guy retired himself at 36 years old after flitting from job to job so has been on benefits since the age of 36 & has had his rent paid for him, he is a drinker/smoker & has no savings.
The difference between the two cases is that the tax that Melanie’s father paid all his life is paying for his neighbour’s care whilst he is having to use his savings to provide for his own.

 

[Stevebrooke]

This is the sad state of affairs in this country which unfortunately will never change. The hard-working majority continue to pay whilst the feckless and lazy continue to receive.

On a lighter note I'm only 18 months from a bus pass and free prescriptions, which will get a right hammering when the time comes.

 

[andyBeaker]

One day I am going to sit down and work out how much tax I have paid in the last 43 years and then estimate how many scrotes I have supported over the years.

It would be more calming to work out how many people I have supported that need it and deserve it I suppose.

 

[Pow-Lo]

went for a meal last night with our good friends & next door neighbours.
Melanie’s father is 92 & has terminal cancer, he is living in a council house in Wakefield, he worked all his life as a self employed butcher & was always meticulous regarding paying bills/tax etc.
He has a carer comes to him twice a day who stays for no more than ten minutes, Melanie travels over to feed him, he has been in & out of hospital due to falls.
Melanie has been told that her father has less than a month & probably less than a week to live & as such his care is now end of life care.
The chap who lives over the road to her father is in a similar situation but is not at end of life care stage yet, this guy retired himself at 36 years old after flitting from job to job so has been on benefits since the age of 36 & has had his rent paid for him, he is a drinker/smoker & has no savings.
The difference between the two cases is that the tax that Melanie’s father paid all his life is paying for his neighbour’s care whilst he is having to use his savings to provide for his own.

Reading something like this depresses the shit out of me. Wrong on every level.

 

[ianrobbo1]

It seems the kids of these lazy bastards are also growing up with the "useless" gene prominent in their lives, more than 3 generations that have never worked live just down the road, they all smoke, drive cars and take holidays all on "our" coin, and god help you if you confront them about being lazy bastards all sorts of "mishaps" happen to your car or house ETC.

 

[Me!]

I worked myself into the ground and retired at 47, I don’t mind helping with funding for those that lack genuine ability to work but those that bleed the system boil my p1ss.

 

[derek kelly]

On a lighter note I'm only 18 months from a bus pass and free prescriptions, which will get a right hammering when the time comes.

You may be 18 months from free prescriptions but you’re a long way off your bus pass.

 

[Minkey]

You may be 18 months from free prescriptions but you’re a long way off your bus pass.

you took the words right out of my mouth, a lot of my friends got their bus passes, pension etc at 60 I know I have to wait until I'm 66 at least.

 

[derek kelly]

you took the words right out of my mouth, a lot of my friends got their bus passes, pension etc at 60 I know I have to wait until I'm 66 at least.

A very long wait then Minkey.

 

[Minkey]

A very long wait then Minkey.

True as I'm only 21

 

[Stevebrooke]

You may be 18 months from free prescriptions but you’re a long way off your bus pass.

It seems your right Derek. I've just checked the YouGov website and the bus pass comes at state pension age. It's also a case of the English getting shafted again as it's 60 in the rest of the UK.

 

[Cougar377]

True as I'm only 21

And pregnant.....?????

 

[derek kelly]

It seems your right Derek. I've just checked the YouGov website and the bus pass comes at state pension age. It's also a case of the English getting shafted again as it's 60 in the rest of the UK.

I didn’t find out until my 60th.

 

[andyBeaker]

You may be 18 months from free prescriptions but you’re a long way off your bus pass.

I am pretty sure that people living in Wales get free prescriptions regardless of age.

Pension and bus pass at 67 for me......

Strangely I would use the bus pass,quite a lot, the bus service is great down here, doesn't cost much more for the online fare for the two of us to go to Eastbourne or Brighton than parking the car at same.

 

[slim63]

I worked myself into the ground and retired at 47, I don’t mind helping with funding for those that lack genuine ability to work but those that bleed the system boil my p1ss.

Similarly I worked myself into the ground from the ages of 16 to 50 when ill health meant I could no longer work full time & I get a grand total of £17 a week in return for all that tax paid & all those years providing a living for those I employed I wouldn't even get that measily few quid if I wasn't having to bring up my granddaughter

Now I do what I can to survive & those bastards will never get another penny out of me in tax because all I have achieved is to pay for some scrounging bastard to have a nice car, telly, holiday etc

 

[Me!]

Similarly I worked myself into the ground from the ages of 16 to 50 when ill health meant I could no longer work full time & I get a grand total of £17 a week in return for all that tax paid & all those years providing a living for those I employed I wouldn't even get that measily few quid if I wasn't having to bring up my granddaughter

Now I do what I can to survive & those bastards will never get another penny out of me in tax because all I have achieved is to pay for some scrounging bastard to have a nice car, telly, holiday etc

Bloodyhell Slim that’s a rough deal of the cards.....

 

[slim63]

Bloodyhell Slim that’s a rough deal of the cards.....

Yes mate, I have sort of got used to it but it does still annoy the crap out of me when I think about it

 

[ianrobbo1]

Not far off your circumstance Slim63, I'm still employed, but not receiving a penny from my employers, sick pay has run out, they keep you jumping through hoops for an odd couple of quid, yet people like my next door neighbour, them over the back and half a dozen other families along the road haven't worked in years, some never at all, If I didn't have my eldest helping out, I'd be stuffed as well.

I've just heard, the company I work for has been sold, hopefully, the new management can actually manage, unlike the old management that couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery with a coach load of alcoholics!!