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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
My bus pass is not free. I pay for it!
I have paid into the system all of my life. I have never been unemployed. I drew dole during the time when factories laid people off because of the power cuts.......but was never unemployed(you had to sign on to get your insurance stamp paid for). I get a free eye test...but pay for my glasses. I do not get free or concessionary dental treatment(yes, I do still have my own teeth). I could have free prescriptions, but currently take no prescribed medications.
So my bus pass is the only thing that the government gives me....except, it doesn't because I still pay taxes......on my pension, council tax(at full rate).....tax on the meagre income my savings accrue.......so I assure you Groove......they are giving me nothing. I earned it!
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I am total agreement with you Margaret, apart from two prescriptions a month we are in a similar position. I managed to work through the three day week during the power cuts because of the job I was doing.
I have read the post that the groovy idiot posted and have held my finger off the keyboard until now.
I have a bus pass, I have used it twice to go into Accrington but still find it easier to drive straight from my garage to town rather than walk the two hundred yards to the bus stop, OK I am a lazy so and so but after 73 years the old body is getting a bit weary.