Todays Budget

[avalonmpk2]

Chris can you not add a few more adjectives to smirk?

[Chrisjay]

Unfortunately not on a public forum but I can do ********************************** and ***************************** is that better ?  

[avalonmpk2]

WOW as stong as that?

[Chrisjay]

That's mild the more I hear about what was not said in the budget but what is happening the more **** I want to add.

You know I never thought I would say this but I may have to vote Labour next time in order to take advantage of their spend spend spend policies as the rate pensioners are going there will not be enough money to live let alone worry if our 'children and grandchildren' will have to pay off the countries debts. 

The 'children and grandchildren' out there including David Cameron are not worrying too much about their parents and grandparents so I am happy (selfish I know) to take all any party will hand me to ensure I can live (I don't want luxury) reasonably and not have to worry about food and heat.

I will not be alive to see what happens to future generations and the up and coming generations certainly are selfish enough not to worry about anyone over 60 as we are apparently a drain on this country and they do not see why they should keep us i.e. pay our pensions as they seem to think it is their money that keeps us and it probably is but GB lost what we put by.

I was asked recently why the young people of today should contribute to our pensions and I replied without our taxes you would not have been born safely, you would not have been educated for free, you would not have school buildings, hospitals, roads to drive on, trains to travel on, airports to fly from, family allowance, family tax credit, computers in schools and homes, mobile phones, TV and McDonald's take a ways AND you would be part of United Germany if your parents and grandparents had survived the ethnic cleansing Hitler was set on.

So unless this government starts to recognise and reward what I worked for my vote will go to whoever promises the most spending.

[avalonmpk2]

I have some German ancestry and Irish but I will never ever support any form of socialism wether of labour or national kind.

[Chrisjay]

I am sorry I am going into selfish mode but sincerely hope that this lot get their act together before long as this 'we are all in it together' seems to mean lower paid, disabled and pensioners at the moment as I think we all agree worldwide this recession was mainly cause by the banks and they are all getting their fat salaries and even fatter bonuses.

MP's are getting a further £6k a year in expenses (a pensioner does not get that in state pension) and a 5% pay reduction at £50k plus is peanuts compared to 5% of someone on £12 -15k a year.  Freezing MP's salaries at almost £70k is peanuts compared to a pensioner getting £5 a week increase but losing £50 in housing benefit under the new 33 percentile rules.

Injustice in any form makes my blood boil maybe the government wants us all to have fatal heart attacks (through our blood boiling) so we are no longer a drain on the nation?

[caminito]

We should be like Faust and sell our souls to the devil . In this case probably Ed Balls 

I agree though Chris, our generation was brought up to care for and respect others and it has got us nowhere ,
Now it seems to be the survival of the fittest , who take the rewards , while us pensioners seem more like a bloody nuisance to the powers that be .
Which is totally daft really , when we have the power ( 12 million of us ) to vote in or out all of these selfish MPs and Councillors who line their pockets daily with huge salaries and pension pots !
 
   

[Chrisjay]

Trouble is a lots of us either don't vote or vote traditionally without looking at the policies (or false promises) and then we get what we deserve.

You can bet students will vote for the party that agrees to lower tuition fees in the next election and bankers whoever will leave them alone.

Pensioners we will just go along with whatever is dumped on us and muddle along with the British stiff upper lip

How many times have we tried to muster this forum into a lobby group to no avail?