What issues piss you off the most?

Question

Price of petrol? The Iraq war? Cost of living? Fat Cats in the utilities? Fat cats in government etc

What really really gets your goat?

Americans - you're paying $3 dollars a gallon we are paying over £1 a litre which, if translated into gallons is over £4 a gallon and if you work out the dollar/sterling exchange rate - well, we ought to be very pissed off.

Answer 1

Hmmm where to start...

petrol prices in UK...fuel duty means we pay well above the odds, yet when prices rise the government blame the petrol/oil companies' greed! What a cheek!

Speaking of greed, how about the interest rates that banks and other lenders charge, plus the fees they charge for each letter sent (it does not cost them £30 to send a letter, this is daylight robbery). Also, the banks are eager to lend (irresponsibly) but when people have a change in circumstances, they are not as eager to listen or help the customer.

Poverty wages...even with minimum wage, many people still have to apply for tax credits to boost income because their wages cannot sustain them. Add to the mix the way all help for housing and council tax costs disappears, it makes a person worse off working than in work, which is a crazy situation.

Pensions. How come a person can pay into a pension scheme for years, then the pension fund somehow disappears, leaving many old people in poverty through no fault of their own. The government need to sort this out before encouraging/forcing people into contributing to a pension fund. Also, women who have had to give up work to look after children should have their NI contributions paid for them by Child Benefits system, to ensure they get their full state pension later. After all, what would this country be without caring mothers? Reward them for what they do, if not in weekly money, at least make sure their NI are not affected because they were unable to work.

Finally (for now) could someone STOP the shops from putting Christmas stuff in their stores in September, Easter eggs in their stores on the day after Boxing day, and just allow the seasons to come and go without all the hype of annoying adverts.

Answer 2

Many issues piss me off but I also get irked at how the issues are discussed by both politicians and people here on Yahoo Answers.
Too many times the discussions on the issues are dishonestly or inaccurately framed. False or unsubstantiated information is offered as if it were the God's honest truth. This is perpetrated by politicians and ordinary citizens of all ideological persuasions.

Answer 3

The fat cats, the pay of a chief executive has rose drastically in recent years. It is many time higher by multiple of the company's lower paid workers. We hear you have to pay the high rate to get the best people. The only problem is that they don't. Look at Northern Rock, he makes a balls up, converting the to penny's from £15. Yet he still gets a golden handshake that is more than most people in this country. Wont ever pass through their hands in a life time. Where's the incentive for the Chief executive. to do a good job?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Income tax and social security - and the way that government has taken over the role of family and community over the decades in many parts of the world.

How many people realise that federal income tax is unconstitutional? Or that when social security was initiated in the United States, it was meant to be a way to help people in serious need on a temporary basis until they got back on their feet, not a way to live off the state permanently?

I do not mind helping people in financial (or other) need. I've always done it independent of the government. What bothers me is I pay a fortune in taxes and social security then watched my poor old grandmother (who contributed to that system for most of her working life) have to depend on family members to pay her heating bills and for medicine. It did not rankle to give my grandmother money - it rankled that the most of the money I gave to the government was wasted - spent on things I didn't vote for. It rankles that the SS budget has been raided to pay for foreign wars I did not approve of. It rankles that my income tax pays for deadbeats. I would gladly contribute the same amount to schools, orphanages, the working poor, the elderly. But not to the federal banking system where billionaires get richer off the interest accrued on my money before they dole it out to people who do not really need it. Not to supplement tax breaks for corporations. The whole system stinks but nobody has the political will to change it.

Answer 6

discrimination issues,

i am white English can trace my family back to Cromwell's time
all of a sudden since the 1950s i dare not speak a word out of place, i have never heard of a case in courts when a white person has claimed discrimination, yet the so called ethnic minorities are flooding the courts almost on a weekly basis.

i wonder what would happen if we did the same, we would have to put a stop to the so called do gooders of this land playing one side and ignoring our side

Answer 7

I don't know about other parts of the world, but in Britain, we are constantly bombarded by newspaper and tv programmes about how stratospherically-fat/hideously-underweight brit kids are; how our parents are sadistically evil for starving/treating us like foie-gras geese; and how we will all die within the next thirty seconds if we don't put down/pick-up our mocha-frappaccinos (with shavings of shortbread) and take to celery sticks/steak and ale pies.

Confused? I am.

Answer 8

Government,
Clebs,
McCanns,
Media,

Answer 9

Sky News.For many reasons:

-That blindingly bright yellow 'breaking News' bar
-When news breaks on Sky News,it will stay there for the next several hours.
-If a normal person has died and it has made the news(ie:the student who was murdered in Italy or the 11 year old who was shot while playing football)Sky always take a cameraman and a reporter and turns up at that person's funeral
-Kay Burley's eyes scare me
-If something major has happened(ie Bhutto's death),they will not report anything else for the rest of the week
-When madeline first went missing,BBC News sent 2 reporters to cover it.Sky News sent 9

Answer 10

People that think we can pay down a 9 trillion dollar deficit, get universal health care, support the military, do medical research and all this other stuff without raising taxes. Really drives me insane.