Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
We live in a selfish country and it goes back to Thatcher

You get people happy to slag off immigrants , those on low pay and others for getting what they call free money

But it seems a tax cut , increased pension etc ....oh I will have some of that ! , not turning that down ! .....I deserve it !

Selfish and hypocritical

We must run the country like our own households they say ......too many freeloaders .....I didn't get where I am today without hard work .....its costing us 25 quid a day to run the nhs and social services you know .....that's my bloody money ......I can't go on 3 holidays this year you know !


But the government throws a few quid the way of these people who DEMAND strong action on the finances of this country to keep Britain great .....and they are grabbing it like its gold dust

Two famous sayings of John Wesley (sorry Sludge but he was a Christian too):

Earn all you can, Save all you can, Give all you can.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

Not much to argue with there I would say.


On the pension topic, Aneurin Bevan once famously said this about the state pension scheme: “The secret of the National Insurance fund is that there isn’t one” Today's pensions are paid for by today's tax payers.