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Our ex-pats are to be afraid, very afraid, are they?
Has all wisdom, nay, all rational thought flown from us?
Is this not part and parcel of the 'something for nothing' attitude that has usurped all common sense?
As with the financial officers of several local authorities, charged with getting the most out of the investment of public funds (rather than the care and attention and the best deals for public funds) that took the (literally) blindingly obvious steps of investing for the highest 'promised' reward on offer from Iceland.
Our ex-pats in sunny climes enjoy benefit upon benefit. They get all the same monies that pensioners get in the UK with no fear of snow, of cold;on their bones and on their heating and clothing bills, less taxation (perhaps) and in general their 'pound' stretches farther each day that it would here at home. Is it at all right that they too should expect all of this with no fear of any down-side? To the extent that they should be sheltered from adversities that effect their immediate neighbours, not to mention that if they are hit by serious illness they can pop back here to be treated.
To my mind, it can only be the wish of such as these (and the list of 'such as these' is a long one) to not be found out that the moniker of 'scrounger' must find it's home elsewhere.
How on Earth did we arrive at the supremacy of wish-fulfilment over wisdom?
How easily we all forget, or refuse to recall, that when you make a heap you also dig a hole.