A Cold Reminder

While I sat beside the pond earlier today, Bob was quietly explaining about the way that humans behave towards each other. He told me that although some among you do good things, mainly to help those of you who are less fortunate than the rest, which has to be good, they seldom appear to be able to do it without shouting out aloud about it to the media. It's as if that by letting you all know what they've done, it makes it seem as though the rich and wealthy care. I think that it's just done to eliminate any feelings of guilt they may have harboured before doing their deed.

Bob says, just because a person has squiillions of pounds in the bank, and that they suddenly decide to give some of it to those less fortunate, doesn't mean that they did it because they thought they were doing a charitable act. On the contrary, the person who truly gives from the heart, doesn't need to go out and seek some kind of recognition from the media. You know, when someone announces that they gave a zillion to charity, it was most likely money that they got tax relief on anyway. It probably wasn't done from a desire to give, but rather out of necessity. Croak!!!

Remember, I once told you that Bob thinks it's far more rewarding, if a person just gives anonymously, and does so without bragging about it. Let's look at it another way, if a person who has squillions gives away a zillion, it's actually no more than someone who has very little, and yet that person gives a few pounds more than they can truly afford. He also said, when you die, you can't take it with you. So it seems that it's better to do some good while you're able to, but don't damned well shout about it to the world, because no one gives a rat's arse one way or another. Anyway, just because you choose to give to some recognized charity, think of all the others who do not benefit from your generosity, and will lose out because they don't belong to a charity. Is this fair? Society's poor or disadvantaged are not conveniently labelled, nor tucked away neatly into little pigeon holes, so they can be instantly recognized. Don't forget, you humans live in an enormously greedy society of your own doing, one where money not only defines the level of your class, but also whether you are seen to be poor or not. Croak!!!

Something else that Bob told me about, it's that the gap between the rich and the poor among the people of this country is slowly, but surely widening. What I fail to understand, in being a frog, it's that everyone below a certain age, appears to dislike all senior citizens with a vengeance. Bob told me that when someone suggested that your government increases the pension rate, the reply was that these people cannot have more than the pittance they already receive, simply because they are not tax payers. Horse shite!!! There is not a single pensioner in this country that doesn't still pay taxes in one form or another. Try telling all those who pay council tax, that they don't, or that it's just a figment of their pathetic imaginations. And what about all that VAT they pay? Don't tell me that just because they draw a pension, they don't suddenly have to pay VAT either! What's more, every single pensioner was once an income tax payer too, just like the rest of you. Don't you damned well forget this: todays income tax payer, is tomorrows pensioner. These people cannot all be like Mister Blair and help themselves to a squillion pounds pension for doing bugger all. Croak!!!

Oh, and while I'm at it, don't you greedy load of toads forget this, while you are out there spending your hundreds and thousands on whatever makes your way of life tick, pensioners are doing the very same, only they have to make do with peanuts as their spending power, and yet, everything they buy costs just them the same as it costs you lot. It's little wonder that British society is crumbling. Further, while a lot of you have money thrown at you for whatever it is you do for a living, people like Bob had to do a proper day’s work, but they did it for far less than you get. They couldn't afford to save for a decent pension, simply because they were not as fortunate as today’s idle rich. Croak!!! I know! I know! I've told you lot all this before, but since Bob reckons that you take no notice of what is going on around you, I felt that a little reminder couldn't do any harm. Ribbit!!!

All is lovely in the garden despite the rain. We frogs learn to live with whatever comes our way. Well, it's time for me to go now, so stay safe and mind how you go.

Bye for now,

Froggy