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For those of you already near/past retirement age or supporting parents in old age what do your countries do well/badly when it comes to making provision for older people?

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Fri Feb 5th, 2010 at 06:12:25 AM EST

Re: Old Age in Europe (none / 1)

Sort-of-reply.

Last year, in attempting a more in-depth critique of the local nominal centre-left's economic policies over the past eight years, the main opposition party concluded that Hungary's economy is in a bad shape because the Socialists improved the situation of inactives -- which they shall correct byx boosting the actives.
The transport minister in the current neolib fake expert' government has the idée fixe (originating in neolib PR) that the state railway transports only pensioners and railway employees for free 'and this can't continue' (whatever happened to public services). To prove it, now pensioners have to validate for-free tickets or else.

Meanwhile, we have elections in two months. And how do the paries start the campaign? By appealing to pensioners! Credible? Incredible...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Fri Feb 5th, 2010 at 10:52:49 AM EST
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