Growing Old Disgracefully

The following quotations were take from a light hearted Ladies web site called Growing Old Disgracefully.
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About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
— Gloria Pitzer

‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
— Martha Graham

The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
— Madeleine L’Engle

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.
— Mignon McLaughlin

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven’t changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don’t change at all.
— Doris Lessing
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FNPF Members paying for Propaganda

FNPF members paid for the ‘Part 1’ newspaper advertisement of Saturday August 13th 2011, and will have the privilege of paying for three more of these ads in the next 3 weeks. Next week’s waffle will be titled ‘What Pension Rate Is Sustainable’ – the answer to this how-long-is-a-piece-of-string question will surely be eagerly anticipated by all.
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CEO Aisake Taito remains ‘Firm’

CEO Aisake Taito remains ‘firm’ on a lot of things- ‘firm’ on GPH decision as reported in the media on 10th August, ‘firm’ on cuts to pensioners’ last source of income and livelihood, ‘firm’ on the stand of FNPF Trust, as a trustee with absolute powers to do things without consultations with the beneficiaries; and ‘firm’ on the message he sends out regularly to the pensioners- ‘you are nothing; the Board is everything’.
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Ross McDonald tries Logic with Kodagoda & CO

Dear Mr Kodagoda and Associates
Further to my earlier emails that you have acknowledged ( but not answered the points that I have raised )   there are further matters that I wish to bring to your attention.

The first of these is to your advertisement in the Fiji Times of 16 July 2011 entitled  “FNPF CLARIFIES PENSION REFORM”. I previously drew your attention to this in my email of 27 July 2011.

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Making a Stand

Why are the FNPF and Attorney General so afraid of a group of  aged pensioners who have decided to make a stand with regard to their human rights and for what is rightfully and legally theirs – a pension until they die, and why are they saying that it has a political angle – or is there something more sinister here, that the FNPF members have not been made aware of?
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UNITED NATIONS PRINCIPLES FOR OLDER PERSONS

In 1991, the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Principles for Older Persons to provide a broader framework for action on ageing. The Principles are framed as 18 entitlements that older persons “should have.” They are organized into five areas relating to the status of the older person:  Independence; participation; care; self-fulfillment; and dignity.
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A Simple Matter of Perspective

FNPF CEO Aisake Taito and his management team continue to demand that his generation should not support the pensioners of today. He conveniently disregards the fact that it was the pensioners of today that were the very people who were paying 70% of the personal taxes received by the governments when he was an infant and later when he and others of his age were receiving their education. We the older generation subsidised the needs of the younger generation.
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