Task2
1. In Britain, when someone gets old they often go to live in a home with other old people where there are nurses to look after them. Sometimes the government has to pay for this fare. Who should be responsible for old people?
Essay sample:
[introduction]
One of the most challenging problems of today;s society is the question who should be responsible for our old people. It's not a financial problems but also a question of the system we want our society to have.
[body]
Firstly, the company can be responsible for their retired employees. For this reason a special fund could be established. The advantage of this model is, if you belief in the capital system, it should be the cheapest solution. A possible problem is that the companies might have vomprititon disadvantage due to higher staff cases.
A second solution is that the government has to tale the responsibility for the old people's care. It can finance this with its tax incomes. Actually, this is the most democratic model since everybody gets as much money as he or she needs.
Unfortunately, as the present situation in our country shows, this solution seems not to work very well. The government can no longer afford supporting all the old people.
Another way of solving this problem is to give back the responsibility to the individual. that means everyone has to save money during their working life for the life after one's retirement. This seems to be not a very fair model because there will certanily exist people who can't afford to save part of their salary. In this case the government would have to care for them.
A last solution is to go back to the old model of the "big family" who cares for all all their members. I don't think this is possible in our days society because the family structures have so much changed.
[conclusion]
To sum up I have to admit that I can't find a really good solution for this problem. All models have advantages and disadvantages. Certainly we have to think about this topiv much more in the future.