Our Seniors and Their Paltry Pension Plans...

Our seniors deserve to be treated 'preferentially' -- they have worked their whole lives for our country and deserve to retire in dignity without having to be scared about not having enough money. Indeed, the Canadian government needs to do something bout those seniors who are falling underneath our current social safety net. This should not be construed as an act of altruism but rather as an act of 'squaring things up and turning an unfair situation into a fair one'. Most of our current seniors -- plus the thousands of upcoming seniors from the 'baby boom' years will, by the time they have retired, put thousands and thousands of dollars more into The CPP than they will ever see back from it...This, in my opinion, is a government crime...How many billions of dollars are there in The CPP -- that is either still there or has been syphoned out of it -- that belongs to seniors today who are living a retirement life of fear and axiety about not having enough money, or have had to keep working through their retirement years, because they have been cheated out of anything close to the amount of money that they put into The CPP...They trusted their government -- or were forced to give CPP money to their goverment without trusting it (most people have some idea by now what kind of scam is going on, and/or has been going on, with their CPP money) -- and their government duped them just like they duped our native aborignals in days gone by.

We, the Canadian people, if we want to retire with proper respect and dignity, need to fix our CPP until the money we get back from it much more accurately reflects what we put into it. Our politicians -- from every party -- have made sure that their own deep pension plans will allow them to retire in anxiety-free luxury; this is noxious and repugnant when compared to the paltry pension plans that the rest of our seniors are getting who don't have the luxury of such pension plans, or any type of private one; and the fact that so many millions or even billions of dollars have basically been taken from them under false pretenses. Money coming out does not come anywhere close to money put in. Where did the rest of it go? And what is the remaining excess 'baby boom pension money' now being used for other than as a government 'slush fund'? If it is being taken out of the CPP for other reasons, then this is fraud, unless the Canadian people know about it -- and why. This is an example of government coversion and narcissism at its worst...A democratic, uncorrupt government is honest with its people and transparent with the use of its tax money; it doesn't take tax money -- overtax people -- and then use this money for other, undeclared purposes...such as overfilling their own pension funds and leaving the rest of the country dry and economically scared and/or miserable during their retirement years...

Furthermore, our seniors -- particularly the ones making under $30,000 should not be taxed at all...Take away their GST and PST...Take away their property tax...and maybe then our seniors will have more time to relax and breathe easier without cringing at every dollar spent...Again, they deserve it...they have worked hard for Canada and their children...it is time for our government and the generation below our seniors to give back to them...

-- dgb, July 2nd, 2008