Pensioner From Rahachou: It’s A Disgrace To Confess How Much Money We Have As Pension

The people driven to despair are flooding the streets.

Several hundred Rahachou dwellers gathered in the center of the town, the website Charter97.org is covering the event live. The former teacher at Rahachou college tells about his life after retirement:

- We deserve a decent pension after the whole working life, and it remains a disgrace for us to confess just how much money we have as a pension. I have worked as an educator at college for 40 years. I thought I might buy a book for my pension. However, have you seen the prices for books? I need nothing but books and I can’t buy them. I am not even speaking about the medicines, which everyone of my age seems to need. They say our health care is free, but you have to visit the pharmacy. If you don’t buy medicines, you can die. We also keep our children, instead of them keeping us, as he says. Young people, they are just starting their lives. A girl graduates, she needs some fashionable clothes, a dress. Can she afford that for her salary? And then, when she decides to have children, I beg you pardon, how much are the nappies?