Posted on 09/19/2005 9:13:02 AM PDT by bwteim
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201698/posts
They are a little faster than Canada...
So what about this poor lady's family? Did they ever call her or drop in for a visit? You can't lay this one at the feet of a bunch of bureaucrats.
Bush's fault.
Like she couldn't make a phone call?
Obviously!
More detail from:
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/174/174640_gran_starves_to_death_at_home.html
Warrington council had replaced the front door, which did not have a letterbox. That meant her pension book could not be delivered and was returned to the Department of Works and Pensions. But when workmen called to fit one, she would not let them in.
Or the daughter couldn't make a phone call...
Daughter Sandra Murphy, 42, said: ..."If we'd known her benefits were cut and the care visits had stopped, we would have been round there in a flash. But not one person thought to tell us. A simple phone call would have saved her life."
I guess a simple visit would have been to complicated for a 42-year old daughter.
Her family never checked up on her???
It sounds like she was mentally incompetent. Nobody in her family ever stopped by, or even called the welfare office to see how she was doing?
If there is a nickel missing from some American granny's social security welfare payment - you know people would hear about it...
Ahh Socialism....Over 100 Million Dead and still counting.
No - you were her child. You were supposed to be looking after her, you delinquent dirtbag.
"If we'd known her benefits were cut and the care visits had stopped, we would have been round there in a flash. But not one person thought to tell us. A simple phone call would have saved her life."
Maybe if you had phoned your own mother sometime in that 3 month period you might have done something.
But she was a proud woman and would never have asked for help.
If she was humble enough to live on government checks, she was humble enough to ask for help. Perhaps she was too infirm to ask for help - perhaps all she needed was one of her 40 descendants to check up on her.
Nope, no one ever checked up on her.
At least there are a few sane Brits who know where fault lies - namely, the family.
See
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/comments/view.html?story_id=174640
for some comments to this story at another newspaper.
Typical reply:
10 children 30 grandchildren, where were they all,? most of us have an independent elderly relative in our family,did none of these 40 people think to ring ,write ,email, or call, how shameful in this day and age .RIP Ivy x
19/09/2005 at 15:25
Okay, assuming for the moment that total and complete dependence on the nanny state is not a degrading and debilitating way of life...
Shouldn't the nanny state construction workers, postal worker, cheque writers, etc., have followed up on the discrepancy that this letterbox-less door created?
This is a pathetic display of creating a dependency and then abandoning the people made dependent.
[cough] Neworleans [cough]
It takes a village, right, Hillie?
Royal Mail ... rule # 52,008 states ... "Should there be no mail box available (at first glance) do not leave mail, but return it to the sender".
Royal Pensions Office ... rule # 32,804 states ... "Any pension checks returned by the Royal Mail shall be disposed of in the proper manner.
Royal Welfare Agency ... rule #2 states ... "Any employee not hearing from a welfare recipient shall consider them doing fine and dandy and shall not inquire as to their welfare.
Now carry on. That's a good lad.
See #7
"when workmen called to fit one [letter box], she would not let them in."
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