baldysblog.co.uk

Posts Tagged ‘Old Age Pensioners’

After some 12 years in power, to hear that useless Muppet Brown talking about “caring for OAPs” makes my stomach churn. When people ask me as a full time carer about me having a “Respite Care Break”, I stare back at them blankly and think to myself, “You really don’t understand what this is all about, do you ?”

And the truth is, they really don’t and in a large part wholly due to a “Legislation and Rights” approach to this and most other problems. Pass a Law and regardless of whether you have understood the issue, everything is now fine, it has been “seen to”. How Harmon, how Labour and all this talk about the taxpayer stumping up vast sums of money to create another sacred cow like the NHS and calling it a National Care Service, one thing is being overlooked and perhaps it is the most important of all, Dignity because I can assure you that there is precious little of it in old age.

Read the rest of this entry »