on the occasions, or if you like instances, when i watch television i am presented with a number of advertisements. these commercial interludes are, look you see, the driving fiscal power which enables me to watch free to air programming in a gratis capacity.
there would seem, to be sure, to be a quite narrow range of products and services that are presented to me in this manner. for the most part these advertisements encourage me to buy a funeral policy, consider a different brand of tampon, gamble, obtain a loan to repair a boiler or car, apply a cream to address vaginal issues i may have or take on a policy to cover any costs which may arise upon my death. in respect of the latter, yes i know many of you long for such news but here i am.
beyond those the only other form of advertisement i can recall relates to pension funds. in recent times a rather famous, or perhaps best said as infamous, pension fund has increased their advertising. i speak, or if you will write, of the 'Euro Millions' pension scheme.
like many others i - and it does feel comforting to know from time to time that i am not alone in this world - shunned this particular form of pension investment when they increased the standard premium from £2.00 to £2.50. this 25% increase seemed really rather brazen, considering that the pension scheme seldom, if ever, actually pays out to investors.
my head was turned, then, by the fact that the advertising gave every indication that investors in the so-called 'Euro Millions' would receive a pension payout north of £100,000,000. yes, one hundred million, which is a lot. this stuck me as being not at all unreasonable and just about worth a ground level, or if you will roots up, investment of £2.50.
and so i returned to investing in this branded pensions scheme. yes, i did so knowing that it had been little more than a sham and a fraud in the past, so i can blame no one but myself for the fact that, yet again, i am left deflated, let down and decidedly without pension. that said, if there is anyone i can blame - the 'Euro Millions' board, the advertisement creator, or the broadcaster, perhaps - and there's a lawyer out there who wants to represent me on a "no win no fee" basis then i shall of course sing like the veritable canary and blame whoever will land me the most compensation.
yes, that there above shows that, surprise surprise, the Euro Millions organizers once again found a channel or means to say "actually, no, we are not paying you a pension north of £100,000,000". and of course they follow this up with "please invest another £2.50 or multiples thereof to totes get access to this or a similar amount again".
it beggars belief that this pension scheme is allowed to operate in such a brazen, unashamed way when it is clearly fraudulent. more than that, really - it seems to be actively encouraged. this is presumably because it only really crushes the dreams and aspirations of the proletariat, for the landed gentry do not seem to be victims.
should he be the main beneficiary of the solicited funding which is never paid out as pensions then i suppose one cannot really be confused by the behaviour of the Frenchie sounding Luxembourgish Jean-Claude Junker. if people all across a continent kept blindly throwing money at me then i suppose i too would be tempted to act like some sort of tin pot dictator, or whatever the term is.
let me sulk off, then, and see if i can in some way learn a lesson from all of this about pension fund investments. but perhaps once more i shall end up swayed and influenced by advertising.
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