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Put Out Elderly First
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I'm sure Foreign Aid has been discussed many times but now it is being suggested we raise Councul Tax to pay for elderly care isn't it time to look at the foreign aid to Despots and expensive "Consultants"
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The Council Tax method has at least two major flaws. First that it will raise more revenue in wealthier areas whereas in poorer areas many people don't pay Council tax and I also don't trust Councils to use use the money sells for that.
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The Council Tax method has at least two major flaws. First that it will raise more revenue in wealthier areas whereas in poorer areas many people don't pay Council tax and I also don't trust Councils to use use the money sells for that.
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When I saw this on the news last night, Linda, stopping foreign aid was the first thing that I thought of. It seems that every time an ‘NHS in crisis’ storey emerges, then it’s the old folk who are cited as being the reason. I advocate absolutely no money being sent abroad: The millions that have already been sent over the years seem to have made little or no...
11:30 Tue 13th Dec 2016
No, I don't think it should be diverted.
Foreign Aid is drop in the ocean of the social care budget (which is gigantic and growing) - the money that is being spent on aid will have relatively little impact if it is diverted there, whereas it can have much more significant impact where it is, because projects in less developed countries are cheaper than year-on-year care for the elderly in a developed one. So Foreign Aid is a small amount of money that does a lot where it is, but wouldn't do much if it was moved.
The only way to solve the crisis in social care is to raise more money and to invest it properly. Either through an increase in corporation tax, income tax, or borrowing. Each has its own drawbacks. But we are not going to get the amounts needed by cutting other departments - it just isn't enough.
Foreign Aid is drop in the ocean of the social care budget (which is gigantic and growing) - the money that is being spent on aid will have relatively little impact if it is diverted there, whereas it can have much more significant impact where it is, because projects in less developed countries are cheaper than year-on-year care for the elderly in a developed one. So Foreign Aid is a small amount of money that does a lot where it is, but wouldn't do much if it was moved.
The only way to solve the crisis in social care is to raise more money and to invest it properly. Either through an increase in corporation tax, income tax, or borrowing. Each has its own drawbacks. But we are not going to get the amounts needed by cutting other departments - it just isn't enough.
The unpalatable truth is that we often choose not to look after our old family members in this country. This is not the case in many other countries where the elderly are loved and cared for in their childens' homes. Oh,yes, not to forget a link.....
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We might be a rich nation but we squander it on vanity aid projects the world over. We fund all manner of enterprises that have little or no effect, or perhaps just for the cameras. (No I don't have a link. There is enough read and heard on the news about aid being missapropraited or the amount we send is being doubled and spent on space/rocket exploration.).
For far too long the U.K. Has been the cash cow of many countries dictators and dodgy regimes and that has to stop. Aid should be targeted and effective not dolled out to flatter dictators or boost the ego of the giver.
Anyway back to care. It is a given nowadays that we have lost touch with family values so that we care less and less for our elderly family members (other countries will eventually catch up with us) and expect the state to do that job for us. That's the welfare state for you.
But the gap in funding is issue in this thread so yes to the OP. Cut foreign aid to the bone (fund what is truly needed) and use the residue wisely on old age care funding.
Overall I have little sympathy for private businesses that don't manage their books properly (how much profit would we find palatable to pay for elderly care?) but funding by local/national government has been cut to such an extent that it is difficult.
There is already a two tier system in the care sector. You pay yourself if you have funds or the state pays for you if you don't. As in the case of pensions perhaps the state should mandate that everyone pays into an old age care pot?
For far too long the U.K. Has been the cash cow of many countries dictators and dodgy regimes and that has to stop. Aid should be targeted and effective not dolled out to flatter dictators or boost the ego of the giver.
Anyway back to care. It is a given nowadays that we have lost touch with family values so that we care less and less for our elderly family members (other countries will eventually catch up with us) and expect the state to do that job for us. That's the welfare state for you.
But the gap in funding is issue in this thread so yes to the OP. Cut foreign aid to the bone (fund what is truly needed) and use the residue wisely on old age care funding.
Overall I have little sympathy for private businesses that don't manage their books properly (how much profit would we find palatable to pay for elderly care?) but funding by local/national government has been cut to such an extent that it is difficult.
There is already a two tier system in the care sector. You pay yourself if you have funds or the state pays for you if you don't. As in the case of pensions perhaps the state should mandate that everyone pays into an old age care pot?
