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ALLERLEI im ALLTAG Yes, I'm a Senior Citizen!!! I'm the life of the party.........even if it lasts until 8 p.m. I'm very good at opening childproof caps ...........with a hammer! I'm awake hours before my body allows me to get up. I'm smiling all the time because I can't hear a thing you're saying. I'm sure everything I can't find is in a safe secure place, somewhere. I'm wrinkled, saggy, lumpy, and that's just my left leg. I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps. Yes, I'm a Senior Citicen and think I am having the time of my life. Alt ist man, wenn man auf immer mehr Ersatzteile zurück greifen muss, aber man wird dadurch auch von Jahr zu Jahr wertvoller: nicht nur das Edelmetall in den Zähnen, auch ein Platin-Hüftgelenk sind teure investitionen. Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. However, while working as a student nurse, I found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn't need my help to leave the hospital. After a chat about rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him to the elevator. On the way down I asked him if his wife was meeting him. "I don't know", he said. "She's still upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown." An elderly lady was invited to an old friend's home one evening. She was impressed by the way her lady friend preceded every request to her husband with endearing terms such as: Honey, My Love, Darling, Sweetheart, etc. The couple had been married almost 70 years and clearly, they were still very much in love. While the husband was in the living room, her lady friend leaned over to her hostess to say,"I think it's wonderful that after all these years, you still call your husband all those loving names". The elderly lady hung her head."I have to tell you the truth," she said, his name slipped my mind about 10 years ago, and I'm scared to death to ask the cranky old bastard what his name is."
From the Horses mouth Sunday Times 13. January <strong>2013</strong> An interesting article from Matthew Lester. Lester is a professor at Rhodes University Taxpayers plan to retire in poverty How many South Africans will be able to afford to retire? Here are some numbers based on the recently released SA Revenue Service statistics for 2012. There are 13 million registered taxpayers in South Africa. Roughly half of that number are unemployed or economically inactive. Some 4.5 million people have submitted their tax return for 2011 so far. The bulk of the remainder fall below the tax threshold, which is roughly R 5 000 a month. So, about one in 11 of South Africa's total population of 52 million is a taxpayer, and there are five times as many unemployed people as there are taxpayers. Of the 4.5 million taxpayers, only 1.9 million claimed deductions for pension fund contributions - totalling R 24 billion - and 1.2 million claimed deductions for retirement annuity fund contributions,which totalled R 12 billion. Put simply,the bad news is that only three million South Africans are planning for retirement - about half of those who file tax returns, or one in 10, compared with the number of people who are unemployed. To compound this fewer than one in 100 taxpayers - a mere 440 000 people - earn more than R 400 000 a year. Of the 440 000, a healthy 352 000 are contributing to pension funds and 155 000 to retirement annuities. They truly have an incentive, because their marginal tax rates exceed 35%. But even with these contributions - and their tax deductions - many of those earning more than R 400 000 a year are substantially underfunded for retirement. The number of South Africans who can afford to retire comfortably is statistically insignificant. And the state cannot afford to do much about it, especially if National Health Insurance Implementation is a priority. So I hope you handed out family savings plans instead of cellphones this Christ - mas - and made a New Year's resolution to work until you're 70 and then spend the children's inheritance while waiting for god. For more, go to www.criticalthought.co.za
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