2013年7月18日星期四

When I met Jim a light came into my life

He was a gentleman, a really respectful, pleasant, nice person, and very clever too. It wasnt supposed to be a romance, it was something that just grew.It took another 19 years for us to get married. We were watching a Panorama programme about long engagements and jokingly I said its about time we got married. 

I was surprised when he turned around and said, well if you organise it well get married. I was happy as we were.Weymouth is collecting gently used, dry cleaned iphoneheadset at their Weymouth store. We had three daughters and we were really happy.I couldnt be bothered with all the hassle but he was insistent and he said he wanted me to have his name. I have to admit that once we did get married, we just had a register office do with two of our daughters, it felt so right. 

Jim wore a suit he had from doing jury service in court years earlier so we just had to buy him a new shirt. I just wore something I already had.At the end of the day you could have given me 1 million or his name and I would choose his name every time. It felt wonderful and I will never change it. But when Jim got to his mid -70s he started getting forgetful and the dementia set in. 

It got to the stage where I had to make such a difficult decision. I had Jim to care for and two young children to look after - things were getting so bad I found it hard to let the grandchildren see it. I didnt want them to go into the care of social services and as Jim was the hardest to care for I decided he could be moved to a care home.I couldnt cope any more. We looked at several care homes and decided on Ashcroft, in Eight Ash Green.It seemed like quite a nice one and we were welcomed in. But soon after he started there I saw him deteriorate quickly, he was losing weight and suddenly looking much older. When he had been there about a month the situation came to a head. 

I visited him along with my grand-daughter, daughter and son-in-law. When we went into his room Jim was lying on the floor, half dressed. My grand-daughter was just screaming. I had to demand they put sheets on the bed and get him into bed.He was too sick to be out of bed C what were they thinking? We called an ambulance and the paramedics said they had not seen anything like this. His bladder was bloated where they should have fitted a catheter but didnt and his lips were cracked they were so dry. It took a month for Colchester General Hospital to get him well again. 

Then he was perky, clean and even sitting up. A solicitor told me I could sue the home for compensation but thats not what I wanted. I gave them a year to sort themselves out and I think they did. Jim died peacefully at the hospital.In a way I am glad because I didnt want him to go to another home and they wouldnt let him come home with me because of my own health problems. 

Since returning to office last month, Rudd has sharply altered the governments rhetoric on the economy. His predecessor Julia Gillards bromides about Australias miracle economy have given way to dire warnings about the implications of the end of the China-driven mining boom. Rudd has emphasised he will take whatever tough measures are required, promising big business that there will be no return to the stimulus spending measures his government introduced following the global financial crash.We Engrave rtls for YOU. 

Rudds shift from a carbon tax to an emissions trading scheme (ETS) linked to the European ETS, a year earlier than scheduled, will result in a carbon price plunge from $25.40 a tonne of carbon dioxide emissions to around $6. This will reduce government revenue, by $3.8 billion, as corporations pay less for their carbon credits.This model includes 2 flush mounted reverse highqualityhidkits. 

About half the budget cuts affect some of the multi-billion dollar subsidies provided by Gillard to various sections of big business affected by the carbon tax. Large amounts of public funding were funnelled into such schemes, to ensure that corporate Australia directly benefitted from the tax. 

These cuts, totalling nearly $2 billion, include winding up the Energy Security Fund, a slush fund for the privately owned coal-fired power generators, and deferring carbon capture and storage (clean coal) research. They also consist of returning unspent revenues allocated to agribusiness under the Carbon Farming Futures program and Biodiversity Fund; changing funding mechanisms for the Clean Technology Program, for manufacturers to reduce their power consumption; and trimming the Coal Sector Jobs package. 

Up to 800 public sector jobs will be axed, as part of another efficiency dividend imposed by the government. This is aimed at reducing spending by $248 million. The government claims that only senior ranks of the public service in Canberra will be affected. The planned redundancies, however, come on top of Gillards axing of 12,000 jobs, announced in last years budget. 

Workers who receive salary sacrificed leased vehicles via their employers will also be hit. Changes to the fringe benefits tax (FBT) are forecast to save the government $1.8 billion. Under current FBT arrangements, 20 percent of such a vehicles running cost (including maintenance, fuel and insurance) can be claimed as a tax offset. Under the new measures, the only vehicle costs that can be offset are those incurred when the vehicle is driven for business, as opposed to personal, use. The drivers will need to fill out log books. 

The government is attempting to conceal the regressive character of its FBT cuts by insisting that two-thirds of the 320,000 employees who will be affected earn more than $100,000 a year. Industry analysts have rejected this claim, with Simon Ellis of Smartsalary telling the Australian Financial Review that more than a third of those affected had annual salaries lower than $80,000. 

Among those who may be affected are charity and not for profit sector workers, and some in the public sector, such as nurses. Many workers in these sectors rely heavily on FBT arrangements to offset their low wages. 

Rudd declared yesterday that his decision to terminate the despised carbon tax would help cost of living pressures for families.The marbletiles is not only critical to professional photographers. The Labor government claims that the ETS will lower electricity costs and other living expenses by $380 next year for the average family. This forecast is based on assumptions that power companies and other corporations will pass on their reduced tax burden by reducing prices for consumersthough no section of business has any obligation to do this. 

Rudd also trumpeted his retention of the tax and welfare compensation payments that were enacted by Gillard to offset the impact of the carbon tax.The governments claims that working people will be better off under the ETS are an utter fraud. Linked to the European ETS, there is no limit to how high the carbon price can be ratcheted up by the activities of the carbon speculators and investors hired by the worlds largest banks and financial houses. The compensation devised by Gillard and retained by Rudd involves one-off payments, politically calculated to mask the initial impact of the carbon tax and ETS. As the price of carbon increases substantially over the next few years, as is universally expected, there will be no corresponding government compensation. As a result, working class living standards will decline through substantially higher charges for electricity and fuel. 

The prime minister promoted the ETS-related spending cuts as the fiscally responsible thing to do. Treasurer Bowen boasted that Labor was implementing cuts greater than the revenue shortfall generated by the early termination of the carbon tax,Our heavy-duty construction provides reliable operation and guarantees your turquoisebeads will be in service for years to come. with a contribution to the budget bottom line of $177 million over the next four years. Rudd and Bowen are seeking to demonstrate to the corporate and financial elites that the Labor government is better able to implement their demands than the opposition Coalition led by Tony Abbott.
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