Saturday Rant
September 5, 2009 by paulsmerry
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It’s Saturday and I feel like having a rant so I think I will do. I’m convinced that there’s a conspiracy by the incompetent corrupt politicians who are currently running this country into the ground, to destroy anyone who tries to stand on their own two feet by taking positive action to help themselves.
My complaint is about my tax bill. I know we all complain about tax, at least those of us who actually pay it anyway. But it’s getting to the stage where everything we do is taxed. I work full-time and pay tax, I run a part-time business and pay tax, all my life I’ve paid tax and seen nothing back for it.
A friend of mine was laid off recently after working for 35 years nonstop and paying all his dues. He was given £65.00 a week for 6 months then told he couldn’t have any more because he wasn’t entitled.
Now something’s wrong here with the system when a guy who has paid in all his life is given a paltry amount then discarded, while people who have paid nothing into the system can walk into the country and be given money without question.
I’m not just moaning about immigrants that we don’t need flooding into the country but people born here who haven’t worked for years but manage to take more from benefits than they would earn if they worked.
I resent working hard to see a large chunk of my money going to support scroungers, thieving politicians, middle class lawyers living off legal aid, MEPs, MPs and the rest of the political class who are lining their pockets while the rest of us pay for it.
And while I’m in full stream I think that chairmen and directors of PLC companies should be capped on how much they can take out of the company. My reasoning for this is simple, they are only employees. They have simply followed a safe career path and took no risks so why should they be able to reward themselves by taking ridiculous amounts of money from public companies.
I’ve no problem with entrepreneurs who have taken risks and worked hard to build their companies taking as much as they want out, but PLC directors? No, it’s just legalised thievery. And that pathetic argument that the immoral payments they receive is to attract the best talent is a joke. We’ve had some really great talent in the banks haven’t we. And that’s another thing, I resent my tax being used to bail out incompetent banks. The directors of these institutions should be made to pay back all the money and bonuses they’ve taken out.
It seems these guys can’t lose. If things are going well they reward themselves with huge bonuses, when things go bad they are given big pay offs and the taxpayer is expected to pick up the pieces. It’s all corrupt. Meanwhile the guys at the bottom who work and save are penalised. It’s a joke.
Right. I feel better now I’ve got that off my chest. Am I wrong? What do you think?
Nice Work If You Can Get It
January 2, 2009 by paulsmerry
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Nice work if you can get it.
The man who destroyed our private pensions has ensured his own is safe from his meddling. Gordon Brown has a personal pension pot of £274,000 courtesy of the British taxpayer. His sidekicks are equally well provided for, with Jack straw having a pot of £294,000, which would pay him a yearly pension of £20,500. Alistair Darling has a pot worth £235,000. Not bad for having the best non-jobs in the country. These ministerial pensions are on top of their Mps pensions. Figures compiled by the Liberal Democrats also reveal that while our MPs are living it large at our expense the average private sector pension pot is just £25,000, which will produce a yearly income of just £1600. If you are not mad, you should be. This is unacceptable. The very people who have been misruling us for years, lying to us for years, forcing policies onto us for years that have downgraded our lives, are cocooned from the effects of their mismanagement. Lord Oakeshott a Liberal Democrat peer uncovered the figures. Lord Oakeshotte summed this situation up when he said: “’Ministers and mandarins live in a pensions time warp. They look like the First World War general in Blackadder, sipping fine wines in a chateau well behind the frontline while privates in the trenches get their pensions shot to pieces.’ Well said your lordship. Matthew Elliott of the Taxpayers’ Alliance said: “Ministers will enjoy a comfortable retirement at the expense of poverty-stricken pensioners.” That about sums it up. Meanwhile, back in the real world. Those of us in the private sector can only watch as our pension funds take hit after hit in the recession. Billions of pounds have been wiped off private company pensions. While ministers’ pensions have risen by double the rate of inflation. Recession? What recession? Private pensions are becoming so severely damaged that private companies are trying to plug a £130 billion shortfall. And the recession hasn’t even started yet! It’s time we challenged this situation. It’s time we started writing to our MPs and telling them, we are not happy. We are not going to sit back and take any more of it. The time for passivity is over. Everyone should write to their MP today and tell him or her that we are sick of it all and we want our pensions protecting as well. We are in this mess because of the mismanagement of successive governments. Forget Gordon Brown’s attempts to blame America. It’s not America’s fault that our economy is so weak it depends on people shopping. This is the fault of governments who have encouraged the destruction of our manufacturing industry. Mps have argued that it is simply market forces at work and there is nothing they can do about it. The crowd of freeloaders in Westminster are happy to throw the rest of us out of the door to face the harsh winds of capitalism while they stay inside, insulated from the policies they have created. Before I sign off for today, here’s a question that’s been puzzling me for some time. Our manufacturing industry has disappeared because other countries can do it cheaper. People who were employed in manufacturing are either sitting in call centres or struggling on the dole. What I cannot understand is if over ninety percent of our laws are made in Brussels and our MPs can’t do anything about it. Why do we still have the same number of MPs? Manufacturing jobs have gone because it is now been done overseas, so why haven’t we lost most of our Mps now that most of their jobs is done over seas? 
Some of the papers were busy at the weekend revealing how our MPs have been busy feathering their pension nests at our expense. Our right dishonorable gentlemen have no hesitation using our money to finance their lavish lifestyles which none of them deserve.
