At OoL now – Clegg v pensioners
Posted on January 11th, 2013 by James Higham
“The primary care giver should be the family too. One spinoff of Russian families retaining their old people with them was the elevated status of the babushka and that had a direct effect on the children who were in contact with them more than even the parents – the result was that those values were imparted and the world pop culture wasn’t the main values imparter. That also took care of the babysitting issue, of the cooking in the morning and evening, of children being walked to school and collected later, of the skills being handed down.”
Read the whole rant here if you can bear to.
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You are 100% correct on this James and the quoted comment is as well, the problem as pointed out by the two replies on Ool is that it is indeed a giant ponzi scheme but that is not what us of a certain age were lead to believe (where have I heard those words before) at the time we were paying in, and as I have stated beforethe pensions in this country are a disgrace viz a viz our neighbours in the western world.
And to add to the problem our private pensions have been decimated by Gordon Brown amongst others, but Cleggs OK he has at least two pensions paid by us to fall back on.
Your comment on the family input is something I recognize, being raised in a Jewish area of London bringing the grandparents into the family fold when it was needed was done automatically no arguments no questions just done.
Oops, comments were meant to be off here and on at OoL. Shall turn them off on this post now.