Lynne
@Brazilnut - the last thing i am is bitter about people receiving benefits. as i know you have read other posts of mine on other threads i cannot even begin to think how you have come to that conclusion. And as for me "telling you off". What?! I asked a question of you (and others), that was all. So, anyone else like to have a go at answering the following: Should those who have not spent "a ...
What is it that this thread implies Brazilnut? I thought we were having a discussion based on the question I posed at the very beginning. I asked the following question in one of my postings above but as I haven't had a response I'll ask it again: What about pensioners who have not spent "a lifetime paying into the system?" Should they also be entitled to state pension age benefits?
"more than their monies worth from the NHS" is not a gross generalisation when it comes to my own family. It is a fact and a standing joke (not sure though that that is the appropriate word) with regard to the number of hospital appointments/operations/treatments, due to various ailments, that the aged 80+ plus members of my family have had and are having. Difficult sometimes to keep up with who ...
Oh yeah I forgot to mentionthis scenario. Let's say people have kids because it has been deemed that they can afford to have them. What happens then if that family income drops to a level that they now can't afford to have them due to death of a partner, divorce, loss of job/business. You know, the type of thing that can, and does, happen to many of us. What would happen then to these kids in a ...
For example, should all those of state pension age, irrespective of income , be entitled to benefits such as free bus passes, winter fuel allowance, the christmas bonus, tv licences, free presciptions etc. And then let's not forget that they more than get their monies worth from the NHS (as well as the free prescriptions). Don't know if I've left any thing out, or got anything wrong, but if I ...
Okay, so like I said I'd do on another thread (the Child Benefit one I believe it was), I'm going to start another thread on "Should those of state pension age get preferential treatment?" . This pension business being of relevance of course but there are also other aspects like ......well, I cover them in my first posting.
Just putting to oneside for the moment the social and economic reasons given above for why we need to have kids and thus, some would argue why we need to have CB, can you imagine the political furore if CB were to be cancelled en masse? I am also intrigued to know how the "if you can't afford to have kids do not have them in the first place" policy would be enforced. Who would decide who should ...
People "choosing" to be on the dole, eh? Do you include ALL the unemployed in that statement?
Is neilh assuming what you are claiming he is Nelson? I read his posting as referring to consistency of argument (or possible lack of).
To say, as the article above does, that Osborne "will realise that he is going to be criticised by pensioners' groups" seems now to have been a bit of an understatement given yesterday's media coverage of this part of the budget. Wonder how many e-mails and letters all those south-west Tory and Lib Dem MPs are getting about this issue? This is from today's Telegraph. ...
