The
conservative government is “leaking” information in advance of the budget in
the hopes that we won’t all throw down our shovels and call it quits. In particular today we heard that there will
be “drastic changes” to Old Age Security.
We are told that by 2030 seniors will be dipping to the tune of $180
Billion; currently they are dipping at a rate of $ Billion .
One is entitled at this point to ask
the question - whose been monitoring the
Old Age budget to date? It shouldn’t be
a big surprise that we would this many seniors in the next 20 years,
particularly given that the old age security has been scrutinized every 5 years
in the last 50 years at least.
One quote:
In 2011, there were about four working Canadians for every retired
Canadian. By 2030, it will be a two to one ratio. At the same time, Canadians
are living four years longer than they did in 1970.
I’m
not a great believer in the statistics that politicians throw out, the numbers
are generally so malleable and moving targets that they have no basis in fact.
I also have a great aversion to
altering the truly pathetic income of seniors (now and future recipients) by
one iota. I believe there are many other
ways we can budget that would have more meaning, beginning first with getting
rid of the Senate, double dip pensions, political pension sizes as they stand
now, expense accounts of politicians and civil servants, and essentially all
the pilfering that goes on shamelessly at every level of government. Leave the seniors alone for God’s sake.
I cannot write more without getting
over heated.
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