Adopt A Pensioner

In today's world many old people live in fear. They lock themselves in their homes afraid that someone will break in and by doing this they put themselves at risk. If there is a fire all too often these poor frightened old souls burn to death because the firemen can't get to them. This is a sad indictment on our society and one that we should be addressing.

Now the elderly have a new monster to fear. Having worked all their lives and saved to make life a little easier after their retirement they are seeing their savings disappear in the financial turmoil we are finding ourselves.

In Australia there is a group of people who have started a movement called "adopt a pensioner". These wonderful people visit elderly people who are living alone and take them shopping or even take them food parcels to help them manage on the pittance the Australian Government call a pension. Despite admitting publicly that they could not live on a single pension the government refuses to increase the single pension despite having a large surplus in hand.

I suppose this is why society in general is uncaring of each other. When a government is not prepared to take care of a group of people who have fought in wars to defend their country and have worked and paid taxes all their lives then it is not surprising that there is only a few people who are willing to do something like adopt a pensioner