Ed Balls - Shadow Chancellor, pension threat..

[norman]

When a politician says, on the one hand, that they'll cut the overall pension budget and, on the other hand, they will not cut pensions........ yikes!..... how are we supposed to read that without assuming they are therefore intending to reduce the number of 'pensioners'.

I've just been listening to a bunch of blinkered thinkers on the radio discussing this very challenge that Ed Balls's statement today has posed. Not one of them said the obvious.

Not one of them said, "well he must be intending to cut the number of pensioners".

I can think of at least 2 ways he might be considering doing that.

1) raise the age of retirement ( even more than it already has been ).

2) Kill off older people !


This newspaper article doesn't join the dots either.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jun/09/ed-balls-pension-spending-cap

[golden wonder]

Oh dear.... Have you seen what the government are doing to the rest of us that have worked hard all our life and have been afflicted with illness or disability. I think pensioners with a pension got the lucky end of the stick. Single mums and disabled people are suffering massively right now...

[Mulder]

What WILL happen is what Russia did - still pay a pension, but because of inflation its no-where near enough to even pay rent.

[mosquito]

When a politician says, on the one hand, that they'll cut the overall pension budget and, on the other hand, they will not cut pensions........ yikes!..... how are we supposed to read that without assuming they are therefore intending to reduce the number of 'pensioners'.



Norman, Norman, Norman, surely you've twigged by now that whatever a politician says - you can ignore it. Maybe if we all refused to take any notice at all of them, they'd vanish. Wishful thinking ....

A look at what successive governments have done over the years shows us the direcetion being taken, so we can be sure of one thing - we'll get screwed

As an aside, I can't help wondering why anyone would vote for a man called "Balls" ...."Here, who's yer MP ?" "Balls". "What are his policies ?" "Balls"

[eric charles]

My name is Balls , Ed Balls , hehehe i just had to say it bwuahaha , a good little chuckle this morning .

I think it is when they finally take our pensions , that the people will rise up , man I hope they do If we dont I dont know what will . When the baby boomers go to retire and there aint nothing left , after them working 40 years toward a comfy lifestyle . Many boomers i talk to are ragin mad over the taxing and about the gov raising the retirement age from 65 to 67 , and reducing the CPP(Canada Pension Plan) payouts . The boomers are living in lala land right now but , I think when all is said and done , they are the ones with the most balls , the yougner crowds are addictied to Facebook , so not much is going to come out of them ...........

. Im 32 and will never EVER see my pension even though i pay big time into it , something like 76$ per week !

I'm just thinking in Horror what it is going to be like in 10-12 years when my kids are in the workforce , man what will they do , cut peoples lawns ? change grandpas diapers ? It is that now or work for the Government .There is no more manufacturing at all at all at all in my area ( I live in what used to be the TEXTILE SILICONE VALLEY ) man there was tons , and i mean TONS of WORK , within a year after I moved here , it was ALL GONE , I mean ALL of it . When the NAFTA tarrifs/embargoes were lifted and when the Canadian $ surpassed the U.S $ in 2003-2004 that was it for us . Now all the revenue strream is concentrated in one area and that is Alberta in the oil sands . When OIL crashes , that IS IT for CANADA . Alberta's oil revenue pays for all the social programs , and I mean ALL !!