Every month I pay NI from my monthly salary. This NI contribution is guaranteed not to be returned back to me as pension, since life on the Maltese islands doesn't give you that guarantee (my current NI is actually sustaining the aging population which is outliving their next generation). If it were only so...
Now I learn that foreigners with refugee status are being paid Lm150 a month, given a home and electricity, and all of this for free. Free to them, but not to us. Those Lm150 are coming from our taxes, from our NI contributions. Instead of giving me a better lifestyle (like better pavements so we don't break our legs, or better lighting in the streets so as not to run over my neighbour, or better tarmac for the roads so I don't swerve on the cyclist), money is being spent on a foreigner who comfortably enough asked for refugee status, and even though he is healthy and fit for work, he prefers the easy life being offered by the Maltese Government.
Some might point out that we must help others, the less fortunate. Sure! But let me do it out of my own will, not steal my contributions or taxes! If my taxes and NI contributions were going where theý're supposed to be going, then yes I'd be confident enough to give charities and donations. But knowing that my hard-earned money is being not invested, but wasted, then I have to intelligently save what's left for the actual purpose the contributions are supposed to be serving!
My pavement is non-existant. When contacted, the local council said they do not have enough funds to do our pavement. Sure! The funds are going to support the illegal immigrant who, whilst I work hard day and night, is leading a leisurely life strolling along the coast roads looking at the nice tourist ladies.
Back to work...
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