Saturday, 8th November 2008
Pensioners should protest their lot
First of all I want to congratulate John Cassar White for his article entitled Bleak Times For Pensioners (Business, November 6).
The article was spot on. But, unfortunately, he did not explain why in his opinion the maximum state pension would not be significantly revised upwards when he admitted that most pensioners have now lost most of their savings and are, in fact, facing bleak times. The maximum state pension has been capped for over two decades. This is happening in a Catholic country that boasts of a social conscience but is not giving its elderly citizens their due. The National Association of Pensioners should take the cue from this excellent article to make its voice heard in all fora to pressure the government to take the necessary measures to ameliorate the situation for the ever-increasing number of pensioners.
If this vulnerable category of people is not protected from falling into poverty, then they should exercise their right to protest against whoever is responsible.
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This is apart from the blatant discrimination that MPs, Ministers, Prime Ministers and the Presidents pensions are not only not capped, but are determined at the current salary and not the salary applicable at the time they were in office.
Thus the rest of the pensioners are doubly discriminated by the GOVERNMENT because they are perhaps considered as children of a lesser God.
How about pensioners organizing themselves and filing a case against the Government for discrimination?
Any lawyer volunteer to take up their case?