You can work, but you can't retire...

All about the garden is looking really quite magnificent. Flowers are blooming everywhere, and the pond has the appearance of a true wildlife habitat, which it is for yours truly. My progeny are growing stronger as each day passes, and because food is once again plentiful, no one has to resort to eating the other just to stay alive. Ribbit!!!

If only I could say that life amongst you humans was as bright and cheerful, but as usual, you are all at each others throats, that is when you're not cheating on each other. I have always thought that in being a frog, life has always been fraught with danger of one kind, or another, but oh no, my life is far less stressful than the lives of you humans. Sometimes I wonder how it is that Bob manages to get from one day to the next, what with all the crap he has to contend with all of the time. Croak!!!

When Bob was watching his television late last night, late as far as I'm concerned anyway, he said that he saw yet another reason why it is, some humans enjoy their retirement years, while others carry on working because they simply don't have enough money to enjoy a retirement. This is a bit two-faced isn't it? As I said once before, I thought that the general idea behind life for you humans, is that after working for about fifty of your years, you are considered far too old to work, then as a reward for your highly valued contribution to society, your senior citizens were paid a pension that's good enough to live on. From what Bob says now, this is just another pile of crap you have to live with. Now, I don't know about you, but isn't there something wrong in society when, as your PM, mister Blair does ten years work, and I use this word rather loosely, and then he goes and helps himself to more than three million pounds to bolster his own pension? Leaping toads, most of you humans work a darn sight harder than he ever has, and yet you get paid peanuts for your pensions. Why, I doubt that many of you earn this much after fifty years of work? I guess that this is just another of those wonderful perks he gets for working in an official government capacity.

Are you aware that your government wastes enough money, with its frequent blunders in handling money that is entrusted to them, money that could give each and every pensioner a pension to the value of what you lot call the minimum wage? Yes, now isn't this a far better deal than the pitiful amount they pay pensioners at the moment? But instead, they continually make up excuses and say that they can't afford to do this. Horse shite!! If they can afford to give one man three zillion quid, and it's out of your hard earned taxes, then I feel pretty damned sure that they can afford to give a pension worth the minimum wage. And let's face it, even this amount is an insult to your integrity as human beings. Croak!!! Of course, they won't ever do it because it's easier to rob and cheat you lot than to be open and honest for a change.

It seems that you humans can work all that you want to, but you can't bloody well retire, and this is official. As a frog, I can see things much more clearly than you humans appear to. This class ridden society that you all live in, is completely your fault and down to what you are prepared to accept. Oh yes it is! A frog only needs to look at the way your MPs live, and then compare them to the way you lot live, and voilà, you have the truth. What I can't understand, it's why you all put up with it?

Once again, that's all I have for this week, so, stay safe and I'll see you all in the garden again real soon. Bye... Ribbit!!!


Froggy