So Sez Kez 133 - Disrespect of Pensioners

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Comment by Kerry-Ann Howitt on September 7, 2009 at 7:15pm

Not only can babe, but will.

Thank you!

xXx

Comment by hippymummy on September 6, 2009 at 12:57pm

Yet again i totally aagree. My dad is almost 74, mam is 64. My dad was a miner, having started work at 14 and, being the eldest son, was responsible for supporting his family. My grandad died when my dad was 10 years old leaving my nan with 5 kids and pregnant with her 6th. Can you imagine? Being responsible for your entire family at 14? He tells us stories , occasionally, of life back when he was young, not moaning about the hardship his family suffered but making stories of the poverty and hardship funny. His shoes stuffed with paper, going and picking crops from the field, going to the slag heaps and filling buckets to bring home coal for his mam plus many more, too many to mention here. These are the tip of the iceberg i'm sure as my uncle who's ten years younger than my dad tells us what he remembers my dads life was like until things started to get (slightly) easier, when his younger siblings also started to work. Not so he could have a better car or flash holidays but so that they could have more than one half decent meal a day. My dad thought he was the king when he started to take some lunch to work with him! Imagine that? A boy of !4 working down a coal mine, doing the work of a fully grown man with out even a breakfast or lunch inside him. he handed his wages over to his mam and took pride in being able to do so. We just don't know we're born do we?! I can't even imagine how my nan must have felt. She was 28 when she was widowed, having to bring up 6 kids alone with next to nothing. I've lived on benefits and are therefor classed as living in poverty but compared to them i'm the queen of sheba!
I think it's disgusting that someone like my dad, who worked past his retirement age is now struggling to exist on a pittance. My parents don't want mansions and luxuary cars. They don't want to dine at the ivy or cruise the world, all they want, like your parents, is to pay the bills and have enough to get by with. We didn't have holidays when i was little but went for days to the seaside with homemade butties - warm and sandy of course! -and we thought we had it made. Who has the right to make my parents worry about bills at their time of life? Who'sliving the life of riley while my mam goes for the cheap cuts of meat and has to plan almost every meal to make sure that they stay in budget? Sadly my parents, and yours, aren't alone in struggling like this. How many elderly folk are worse off now than ever before? Classed as almost a burden on society, at least that's how some of them feel. It makes my blood boil to think of the "fat cats" and their like sitting in their opulent homes dining on the best of everything with their rooms full of gold while our elderly go and get an extra sweater because they're afraid to use their heating. it effing stinks in my opinion. We need to start speaking out and letting these people know that we're onto them and soon there'll be nowhere left to hide. We don't desreve to be treated this way, they've took the p**s long enough. Individually the task is unsermountable but together we CAN make a difference!