docholiday Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 (edited) Sorry if this was private forum for your own personal use but last time i looked it was an open forum, like others I am entitled to my opinion, your views are at best naive at worst hopelessly blinkered. I am sure it makes you feel good to be able to say that you donate money to two children in India,in reality I have no doubt that the majority of all aid and charity donations goes into the wrong pockets, and I have first hand experience of this in the medical charities having worked in Kenya for a period of time,( yes I got of my backside and went to do something to help rather than boasting that I gave a couple of quid to India) should we look after our oaps better at the expense of some overseas aid, without doubt, so sorry if this doesn't fit your views, but as I have suggested, you need to grow up regards Doc Edited March 1, 2014 by docholiday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sishyplops Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 (edited) Sorry if this was private forum for your own personal use but last time i looked it was an open forum, like others I am entitled to my opinion, your views are at best naive at worst hopelessly blinkered. I am sure it makes you feel good to be able to say that you donate money to two children in India,in reality I have no doubt that the majority of all aid and charity donations goes into the wrong pockets, and I have first hand experience of this in the medical worlds charities having worked in Kenya for a period of time,( yes I got of my backside and went to do something to help rather than boasting that I gave a couple of quid to India) should we look after our oaps better at the expense of some overseas aid, without doubt, so sorry if this doesn't fit your views, but as I have suggested, you need to grow up regards Doc then you should know better than most how vital aid is , you must of thought it was worth doing to go out in the first place, how you have the nerve to patronise someone else for doing what they can is beyond me, yes i do feel proud about giving a few quid because it makes a difference to them and their lives, you say i am boasting but there you are saying the exact same thing but more so, belittling the amount i give and saying your generosity was much greater UNBELIEVABLE Edited March 1, 2014 by sishyplops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
docholiday Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 Jolly good to know people who go out into these areas and actually see what is happening as well as using their professional skills are muppets, you just keep sending your couple of quid, and don't forget to tell everybody what a good chap you are. As I stated for the purpose of this thread I believe we should be supporting our oaps who a significant number are financially struggling before some of our oversea aid programs, which as has been stated and my experience would bear out, are not getting the funds to the needy but are lining other pockets I will leave you to your own thoughts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pegasus bridge Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 Cut a bit off overseas aid that should cover it, a bus pass for the elderly is often a lifeline it should bare no consideration, seems we oft forget what our elders did for us. KW +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sishyplops Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 You obviously didn't read my post and the part where you are saying how much better you are than me, and then you reiterate it! By the way sponsoring is not a couple of quid if it were I would sponsor a lot more Thank you and goodnight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
four-wheel-drive Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 What some people seem to find so hard to understand is there are a lot of old people who are poor not because they have been lazy layabouts spunging of the tax payers but because for lots of different reasons they could never get good jobs not everyone is clever lots of us just do the best we can with the **** hand that life gave us. so please do not make out that all of the pore people are spungers and all of the people who have good pensions are clever responsible people there are loads of so called professional retired people who worked mostly in government gobs and are living on huge pensions. they say that they paid in for when in fact to get that sort of pension they would have had to pay in many hundreds of thousands of pounds to build up a fund big enough to pay them what they get in fact there is no fund it is us who are paying there pension not bad retire in there fifties and we spend the next thirty years keeping them. If it makes you feel good to call me a socialist I admit in many ways I am but most of all I believe in fare play if a persons works hard all of there life using the abilities that god gave them be that not much or lots everyone deserves to be looked after was that not what we fought two world wars for or was it just so that the posh people can carry on living in there country houses and look down on us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sha Bu Le Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 Mods.....time to call time on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandalf Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 Mods.....time to call time on this one. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun4860 Posted March 1, 2014 Report Share Posted March 1, 2014 This has run its course Unfortunately it is gone the way of so many before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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