Smoky-Drinky night once more. A quick rant before I go.
We're all getting older. Can't be helped. I'm still a decade from retirement age but I doubt there'll be any chance of pottering around an allotment. I'll still be working and fighting off Government attempts to move me into some tiny box somewhere so they can give my house away to someone who hasn't worked for it.
There are often comments on age-related articles to the effect of 'Why should we taxpayers pay for the elderly? Why should we pay for their diseases that they've brought on themselves by smoking and drinking? Why should the state pick up the bill?'
A clue for the clueless: the state should pick up the bill when we're old BECAUSE WE HAVE ALREADY PAID IT.
It's not our fault the government has taken that money and pissed it away. We have paid for the NHS, the care homes, all of it and we are not going to get our money's worth. Not even close.
Treatment of the elderly gets worse every year. I have seen them, for some years now, having to go outside the don't-care homes for a smoke in the snow. The Greens kill them with heating bills they can't pay, the NHS kills them with neglect, and now the Cameroid wants to work them to death.
Oh, you twenty-and thirty-somethings can bleat and whine about your taxes paying for this and paying for that but look at the situation. Really look. Treatment of the elderly gets worse every year. Soon they will be forced out of the homes they've paid for and be denied the treatments they've paid for. They'll be put in the Wrinkle Ghetto where you don't have to see them, they'll be working on minimum wage or perhaps no wage, just to cover the cost of that little box they've been given in exchange for their house. They will not be permitted to smoke or drink or do anything that is not approved.
Then when they die they won't be buried because you bastards have built houses on every square inch of land to house your lovely immigrants. Instead they will be 'sent somewhere warm'. The power station.
Feeling smug, youngster? Thinking 'Good. It'll save money'? Well reflect on this one.
You're getting older too. How bad will the treatment of the elderly be by the time it's your turn? Can you grasp what 'early retirement to a nice warm place' might mean in twenty years' time? All the while, your children will be complaining about they are paying for you. Looking forward to that?
Right, I'm off to smoke and drink to excess and if you young sods think I am going to feel even a twinge of guilt in twenty years or so when I'm utterly wrecked and costing the NHS loads of money, you are welcome to visit my whisky-soaked and tobacco-stained withered shell and watch me not care.
Do not expect a warm welcome.
15 comments:
sad thing is that not that many years ago that would have been a work of fiction... scary really isnt it?
We are in good company http://timworstall.com/2012/02/10/and-her-majesty-says-that-her-government-can-fuck-off/
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It's not our fault the government has taken that money and pissed it away. We have paid for the NHS, the care homes, all of it and we are not going to get our money's worth. Not even close. "
Thus, all Ponzi schemes...
Here's another idea for a story.
Secretly build a small but very powerful bomb and secretly have it implanted. You have a keypad and daily need to enter a password or a string of digits to stop it going off. So if you lose your marbles or die it will go off. Or of course you have the option to set it off any time you like.
So when they pack you off to some disgusting nursing home you can rest easy in the knowledge that you can and will wreak terrible revenge.
Belinda wrote about the elderly in care homes this very day. This 'care' home wants to get rid of the smoking room and send two elderly smokers, one 83 year old, out into the sub zero cold to smoke...the CNUTS! http://f2cscotland.blogspot.com/2012/02/getting-cold-for-good-cause.html
The biggest joke is the whining kiddies complaining about paying for the old and bold without realising that their last twenty years of education they have had was paid for by us, the free NHS they enjoy, the roads they travel on and every poxy thing they see or touch has been paid for by US. So cough up nappy lovers, its your turn now.
Well said, Leg Iron. You are very correct, the Older people have ALREADY PAID ALL THE BILLS and then some for this care (lack of it now)!
Just wait until the younger ones who complain get to be their age....by then the state will probably just put a cap in their asses, and throw them in a landfill.
Hope you enjoyed your smoky drinky nite!
They did it years ago here. The old people's homes don't even have smoking shelters. if you get the bus that takes the circuitous route (it ends up no slower than the 'direct' but because that one diverts via the airport) you go past quite a few of God's waiting rooms and you see eighty-year-olds outside smoking.
There are fewer of them now. The last two winters would have delighted ASH's drones with the number of elderly smokers it finished off.
My own plan for such an event is that the nursing staff will murder me. I'll drive them to it.
Bernie Madoff should be in charge of NI. He made more money at it than they do.
You would think that a binge-drinking Royal would have a rather more upbeat National Anthem. Something set to grunge metal, maybe.
It would scare the foreigners a treat. Imagine all those anthems played at the Olympics, and then a band of tattooed thugs take the stage, pick up the electric guitars and turn the volume up to 11...
...and Mrs. Queen takes out the gold-plated paper guitar...
I'd laugh myself soiled.
It's still trying to be fiction but real life is catching up with me. The damn book will be a documentary by the time I'm done and everyone will read it hearing that Attenborough voice.
They don't understand that it's a PONZI, and can't see that their children are going to treat them even worse.
In my own fictional word, they get thrown into power station furnaces. Because those magic windmills that no longer turn don't actually produce energy from wind at all.
What I don't understand is the mentality of Doctors/Nurses/Administrators in the NHS. We read all these stories about ill/mal treatment of oldies in our hospitals and all the filthy diseases that abound therein. Don't these Doctors/Nurses/Administrators realise that they will probably end up on germ infested ward when they get old like the rest of us proles and will be treated like s~~~t. Forget private medicene - they don't do long term nursing "care". It's in - operation - out a.s.a.p - Ker -ching - have a nice day.
Just a thought.
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