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    "content": "even for famine relief distribution, old people cannot get food even when it is available because they are limited by their health. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, looking at the process of aging as defined by the making of men and cells, it does not incapacitate somebody’s thinking. The difference between us and animals is our brain. For example a mosquito can stand on a ceiling without any problem, an elephant would push a shanty down without being scathed, a whale can swim across the continents because they are powerful. That brain, even when aged, is intact. Most of these old people have developed very stable brains and brain power. What they are not able to do is taking action. In the process of doing the good things in life, they broke a limb or because the air was so polluted they have one lung missing. However, the brain is intact. We cannot sit here and pretend that all these people are destined for garbage. We cannot sit here and imagine that just as it was in those old days, young people today are going to take care of old people. This is because as it is, it is the old people who take care of the young people. I like the law in India. It provides that - and I hope the Minister will borrow from it – if you, John Mututho, are a person of means, you are bound by law to take care of the old people. You are supposed to take care of them because we know you did not come running. You took their resources and developed that far. It is practiced so that we do not have so many old people dependent on the State while their sons and daughters are riding high in the society. That, in itself is recognizing the very fact that these old people require help. I like Australia because in their laws, a senior citizen, as it may be, enjoys free medical services for real. He can walk into any Government-funded hospital and get free medical services. You have to stop 50 meters from the zebra crossing if a senior citizen is crossing. Even if there is no zebra crossing and a senior citizen crosses the road, you have to stop 50 meters away otherwise you will be stopped by the police if you are a motorist. You do not have to hoot. There is no provision for hooting at old people or senior citizens. They are our fathers and grandfathers and should be respected."
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