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Ahh... Today has sucked for Miss Molly Moocat. She got gross antibiotics for her uti. Then she didn't want to drink her expensive shop bought broth... (Maybe because there's turmeric and parsley in it, I don't know. Maybe I might lash out on some meat next shop and stew some very plain stuff for her at home.) She also got her wiggies cleaned because she was growing potatoes in there. Plus a sensitivity to this antibiotic is going to give her at least one ear infection and they need to be clean for the medicated drops.
I'm pretty pissed off myself. I'm pre-emptively tightening my belt for Winter and bracing for any more medical costs for either of us, and saw that this lady had been having a self righteous whinge about being "demonised" for owning multiple investment properties. My god, have a sook.
Edit: Also the whining about her and her husband not getting certain kinds of welfare (because they don't need it) and self righteously claiming that they're avoiding being a burden by not taking it... nice to see that casual classism and ableism there. Real nice. Because obviously vulnerable people choose to be disadvantaged and/or disabled.
...I wonder what quality of stew a landlord makes.
All three of your links triggered me!🤯
Edit: I thought I should clarify that the landlady on qanda triggered me the most, because I know people (relatives of Mr P) who have money like that, but so much that they don't actually need health care cards etc, but who were indignant that they weren't entitled to a full pension because they had too many money! The sheer fucking bare faced entitlement was just breathtaking. I couldn't resist trying to explain; don't you see that because you are better off financially than counts on fingers a vast percentage of the population, that you don't need the same assistance and support that someone who is, say, renting on a pension would need? Nope, "But why aren't we getting that‽" And the best comment from these people? An incredulous "It's like they think you should be spending that money!" I almost fell out of the chair, clutching my head at the comments and attitudes that hurt my brain!
What these type of people also happily overlook is just how much money they receive in the way of tax concessions on their Superannuation that allows them to be "self funded". Decades of 15% tax on earnings (and a substantial proportion of contributions) and then no tax for the entirety of their retirement. Those tax benefits are worth more than the pension benefits, and if they want they can spend all that money on themselves and then get the pension as well once most of it is gone - and they get to have however much money they like locked away in their home which is barely counted for the pension assets test.
And the weird double think. 'We're going to judge people who receive assistance as burdens but we want it too'