British pensioner v Illegal immigrants
16 December 2010, 10:43 PM
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Having read through your post twice to fully digest what's said, I fully agree J4CKO 
The point with regards lower paid folk regardless of education, intelligence, background or whatever, is that there will always be people required to do minimum wage jobs.
Without getting personal and mentioning names, I am suprised by the attitudes of some on here (for as long as I've been a member) who toe the line with regards to my previous comments of "I'm alright jack" and "should have tried harder at school", especially if any of them came from poor upbringings and made successes of themselves. It sometimes comes across that some of those that didn't have a pot to **** in as a child but now have a few quid (for whatever reason) forget about the lower classes and the fact that all these jobs which may not yeild a private pension need to be done. Unfortunately there seems to be examples in this thread from reading all the comments.
(In a nutshell J4CKO +1
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The point with regards lower paid folk regardless of education, intelligence, background or whatever, is that there will always be people required to do minimum wage jobs.
Without getting personal and mentioning names, I am suprised by the attitudes of some on here (for as long as I've been a member) who toe the line with regards to my previous comments of "I'm alright jack" and "should have tried harder at school", especially if any of them came from poor upbringings and made successes of themselves. It sometimes comes across that some of those that didn't have a pot to **** in as a child but now have a few quid (for whatever reason) forget about the lower classes and the fact that all these jobs which may not yeild a private pension need to be done. Unfortunately there seems to be examples in this thread from reading all the comments.
(In a nutshell J4CKO +1
)We're all grown ups on here ( well, mostly).
18 December 2010, 02:45 PM
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You did not notice what I said earlier about although your taxes help to support pensioners, their taxes when they were working supported the pensioners of that time, and when you are a pensioner, the taxes of those working while you are retired will support you! And so it will go on.
The amount of the old age pension paid is already related to the length of time that you paid National Insurance for as well. You have to have paid for 44 years to get a full pension, you will get a partial pension if you have contributed less and if less than 25% contributions you might get no pension at all.
Les
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