I certainly never have, nor ever will, look a gift horse in the mouth for three valid reasons.
Firstly, I was taught as a child to be grateful for whatever gift comes your way, no matter from whom.
Secondly, horses have nasty, big teeth and I would be unhappy, to say the least, for this animal to leave teeth impressions on my body.
Thirdly, sometimes these equines have terribly bad breath, the type that could peel paint off metal.
Actually, truth be told, I adore these majestic animals so taking the ‘Mickey’ is just for the point of my letter.
I am sure that I may take carte blanche and say the 4.5% improvement to the Sassa old people’s grant is a Trojan horse, certainly not a gift horse.
This increase, on the outside, would seem to be an acceptable presentation, as the Trojan horse was to the eye.
However, once one gets to the innards, of which the Trojan horse has none but soldiers, one can realise we are being had for fools.
Notice how the audience at the budget speech applauded loudly when the R90 increment was announced – how many of the seated throng are Sassa recipients? None!
So, they were merely expressing the happiness, by making noise, that the Sassa recipients would be doing if they had been there in the auditorium, which they weren’t.
I saw an advert for a degreed municipal manager position and the middle salary offered is a million rand per year.
Please explain to me how one spends R90 000 rand in a month, when government pensioners have to get by on 2 000 rand per month?
And this government is forever mooting the problem of inequality in this country and how all citizens must reap the benefit.
Well, how about jacking up the Sassa grants? Not only will we ALL benefit in our pocket but the money will go back into the system and the economy will pick up, too.
And I am not even an economist, duh.
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