ONE Sunday last month I was watching The Politics Show on TV when one of the presenters wound up by saying, in a roundabout way, that one burden would be funding the extra costs for a population that is living longer.
The word ‘burden’ was actually used. I was disgusted.
I ask you this: were today’s elderly people a burden when they were fighting two world wars?
Were they a burden when many of them from the age of 14 worked very many hours for little pay?
These people paid their way, unlike today’s work-shy who live off this nanny state.
As far as I am concerned, the burdens of this country are the MPs, the bankers, the work-shy and our stupid discrimination laws that let all and sundry live here at huge cost to the country.
So stop knocking our elderly – they have done more than their bit, yet are treated badly with the worst pensions in Europe and shown no respect by whichever government is in power.
H HAMER, Blackburn.
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