Harper says `major' changes coming to pension system
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Dear Society:
I am very angry. Yesterday I heard onthe news that Harper was proposing raising the age from 65 to 67 toqualify for old-age retirement, the old-age income supplement. I wasunclear about whether this applies to Canada Pension as well. Hesaid that people are living to be older. Not true! I am only 58 andmany of my friends are gone already, dying from stress-relateddiseases. I have a stress-related disease myself. There are morepeople because we are baby boomers, and baby boomers means that inour era more babies were born, so probably there are more peopleliving to old age. Most of us will not. My Grandparents lived to bein their nineties. My Parents were in their seventies. I suspect,although only God can know for sure, that I will be in my sixties. Like I said, I have a stress-related illness.
What is the answer? Kill off theelderly, by cutting the Health Care and their pensions, so that theyare forced to live in poverty! Give me a break! It is our seniors,our parents and our grandparents that have given to society the most. In their dedication, they have worked to create the best worldpossible. What a slap in the face, for a senior who has workedhis/her whole life to make this world a better place! So much forloyalty and dedication!
Then I hear about the GovernmentEmployees, who are collecting large pensions. Fine! They earnedthem! But then I hear that some of them may have a million or twodollars in investments and more than an adequate amount of money inthe bank!
I was a Health Care Aide/PSW, whoworked part-time in Nursing Homes and Home Care for several years. Because I was considered part-time, I earned very little pension formy old-age. Places hire part-time so that they can save on benefits.
I worked for a living. I was adedicated, loyal worker who hardly missed a shift. I loved my careerand the elderly people that I worked with. I put in about twentyyears in my career. I would probably not change a thing. I havealways wanted to help people.
I recent being mocked and laughed atbecause I am living in poverty and have a disability. I haveParkinson's disease, and yes I have noticed the smirks on certainpeoples faces, who do not know anything about me or my past. Theyhave categorized me as another disability bum taking advantage of thetax payers money and living on disability. They probably believethat I have never worked, and actually, I held a job that was justas responsible or more responsible that the jobs that these peopleare holding. Laugh at me! Okay! We all get old someday! Some ofus become ill. We never know what is in our future.
Let's as a society make some changes! Let's value our seniors and disabled. After all we may be in thesame position someday.
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bellprincesskate@aol.com
I am very angry. Yesterday I heard onthe news that Harper was proposing raising the age from 65 to 67 toqualify for old-age retirement, the old-age income supplement. I wasunclear about whether this applies to Canada Pension as well. Hesaid that people are living to be older. Not true! I am only 58 andmany of my friends are gone already, dying from stress-relateddiseases. I have a stress-related disease myself. There are morepeople because we are baby boomers, and baby boomers means that inour era more babies were born, so probably there are more peopleliving to old age. Most of us will not. My Grandparents lived to bein their nineties. My Parents were in their seventies. I suspect,although only God can know for sure, that I will be in my sixties. Like I said, I have a stress-related illness.
What is the answer? Kill off theelderly, by cutting the Health Care and their pensions, so that theyare forced to live in poverty! Give me a break! It is our seniors,our parents and our grandparents that have given to society the most. In their dedication, they have worked to create the best worldpossible. What a slap in the face, for a senior who has workedhis/her whole life to make this world a better place! So much forloyalty and dedication!
Then I hear about the GovernmentEmployees, who are collecting large pensions. Fine! They earnedthem! But then I hear that some of them may have a million or twodollars in investments and more than an adequate amount of money inthe bank!
I was a Health Care Aide/PSW, whoworked part-time in Nursing Homes and Home Care for several years. Because I was considered part-time, I earned very little pension formy old-age. Places hire part-time so that they can save on benefits.
I worked for a living. I was adedicated, loyal worker who hardly missed a shift. I loved my careerand the elderly people that I worked with. I put in about twentyyears in my career. I would probably not change a thing. I havealways wanted to help people.
I recent being mocked and laughed atbecause I am living in poverty and have a disability. I haveParkinson's disease, and yes I have noticed the smirks on certainpeoples faces, who do not know anything about me or my past. Theyhave categorized me as another disability bum taking advantage of thetax payers money and living on disability. They probably believethat I have never worked, and actually, I held a job that was justas responsible or more responsible that the jobs that these peopleare holding. Laugh at me! Okay! We all get old someday! Some ofus become ill. We never know what is in our future.
Let's as a society make some changes! Let's value our seniors and disabled. After all we may be in thesame position someday.
Respond to:
bellprincesskate@aol.com
The answer is to quit worrying before anything happens. NO one has said ANYTHING about C.P.P. Read the obituaries, probably 5%-10% of people are going to 90 or more, when I was a kid, to reach 90 was a very rare exception. Actually stress saves more people than it kills.
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Re: Harper may annoy seniors.
That's exactly why he did it while out of the country. It is also not unheard of for any government to make a statement about something which they know will be controversial, back step on it, then introduce another change/cut/etc which is less controversial and that ends up slipping under the radar because the first announcement gets all the press. That's just political thinking, AKA misdirection.
That's exactly why he did it while out of the country. It is also not unheard of for any government to make a statement about something which they know will be controversial, back step on it, then introduce another change/cut/etc which is less controversial and that ends up slipping under the radar because the first announcement gets all the press. That's just political thinking, AKA misdirection.
Ugh! You know, I started out working in retail when I was a teenager. So help me if I end up there in retirement, I will go stark raving mad and I'll take others with me.
Free trade is fine as long as it's done using our currency. I'm not too keen on shoring up someone else's dollar.
And do you mean that reciprocally?
Personally, I'd be in favour of a world currency, but that's just me.