Moorna, I know that you have been through quite a lot.The services need to exist don't they? Even people who may have the money to pay may find that the services they need no not exist..

I'm sick and tired of people sobbing on my shoulders about their personal issues while having ever more money gouged out of my pockets that I worked bloody hard for all my working life without receiving help from anyone else during the bad times.

No-one gave a stuff years ago when I couldn't work for months after a bad road crash that was due to someone else's carelessness, and the government wouldn't offer me a cent to help us get by because they considered that because I had my own business I could afford to look after my own needs, but when you are stuck flat out on a bed unable to work at your own business it's impossible to raise money to cover anything.

It near on sent us to the wall financially, and if it hadn't been for the bit of money my wife was able to bring in by taking on a menial part time job cleaning motel rooms while also trying her best to look after me at the same time while I was laid up we would have not only lost everything, but ended up deep in debt. 

In the end I had to find the money to pay for my own spinal fusion operation so I could work properly again, and that took some real doing at the time I can tell you.

I still suffer daily pain from it all now, but I get past it by grinning and bearing it with the help of a few strong painkillers.

I have always taken care of my own, and now I pay private insurances to ensure that I am taken care of properly should the need ever arise as I have no-one else left to do it, so I see no reason why I should be expected to pay more taxes to be wasted on things that are not my responsibility.

I only still work at what I do for the simple pleasure of it, not to hand out my money to every Tom, Dick or Harry with yet another sob story, or an ever increasingly greedy taxman.