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If someone refused to pay their Car Tax because of their age, would that make things easier then? They still use the same services as us, we will have to pay it when we get older. If they want treating as equals then that's what they have to do, pay up like us all!
Oo eck! Hope you still feel that way when you're 70! I think maybe you need to get in touch with your feminine side?Today's pensioners grew up in a very different world from now - at least young folk now know that they need to save like b****y if they want to have a life when they retire.
..... I agree with Pauline that when you have a mortgage and/or young children saving is really hard, on the other hand it is a good idea to get used to regular saving. Supposing, for example, that you save 5% of your weekly/monthly income to start with, and when you get a pay rise put half of it into savings, after a bit you will have a tidy sum stashed away for emergencies. Put it in a cash ISA and you don't pay tax on the interest. As of April 2008 you can save £7200 a year. I'm not suggesting that you have that amount available to save but every little helps (where have i heard that before?? ;D) Just say to yourself: I earn £x less 5% and budget on 95% of your income.And that's the next thing: write down what you buy/pay for and make a budget that includes it all. If budget exceeds income then you need to do some thinking about how to change that, cos if you don't you will end up in debt - which is bad. We all spend loads of money on things we don't need (look at our seed hoarding for example). It's not bad in itself, but if you want to save, and we all need to save, it bears looking at a bit closer.
"There landed yesterday at Southampton from the transport Cheshire over 600 so-called refugees, their passage having been paid out of the Lord Mayor's fund; and upon testimony of the ship's officers, there was scarce a hundred of them that had, by right, deserved such help, and these were the Englishmen of the party. The rest were Jews. The ship seemed alive with them. There were Russian Jews, Polish Jews, German Jews, Peruvian Jews, all kinds of Jews, all manner of Jews. They fought and jostled for the foremost places at the gang-ways; they rushed, and pushed and struggled into the troop shed, where the Mayor of Southampton had provided free refreshments…they fought for places on the train..." "There were a few quiet, sad-faced Englishmen-men who had gone to South Africa, who had made a little money, who had lost their all through the war. One man, with scarcely a rag of warm clothing on him, whose only asset was a tin of sandwiches, admitted he was dead broke, but refused to take a half-penny." That was the Daily Mail 3 Feb 1900 reporting the arrival of 350 Jewish refugees. This marked the start of a successful national campaign against refugees. The refugees referred to in this article had arrived in Southampton on board the Cheshire having fled increased hostility and anti-semitism in South Africa since the start of the Boer War.Nothing's changed.
Froglegs I often read advice on saving at a site called The Motley Fool -www.fool.com .
Unless I am missing something, the Motley Fool seems to cover the USA and not over here.
But at the end of the day our generation is buggered - We have no pension plans to speak of - All that money has now gone, and we are going to be worse off unless we cough up a huge amount now ::)
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