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22-02-2018, 04:59 PM
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Re: Blame Game on Baby Boomers.

The young generation owe me nothing and I owe them nothing. It's every man/woman for themselves.
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22-02-2018, 05:08 PM
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I remember when the mantra was " investing to look after us in our old age" now they don't want to spend it on that.
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22-02-2018, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by TessA ->
I remember when the mantra was " investing to look after us in our old age" now they don't want to spend it on that.
Spent it on wars tess.
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22-02-2018, 05:18 PM
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Re: Blame Game on Baby Boomers.

I used to love maths at school and even now still use 12 inches as a rule.
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22-02-2018, 05:21 PM
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Hi

We had vast amounts of money from North Sea Oil and Gas.

We blew it, others did not.

We now expect our kids to pay.

We knew 20 odd years ago we were not paying enough Tax and NI but we chose to ignore it.
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22-02-2018, 05:31 PM
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Re: Blame Game on Baby Boomers.

Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
The young generation owe me nothing and I owe them nothing. It's every man/woman for themselves.
Originally Posted by swimfeeders ->
Hi

We had vast amounts of money from North Sea Oil and Gas.

We blew it, others did not.

We now expect our kids to pay.

We knew 20 odd years ago we were not paying enough Tax and NI but we chose to ignore it.
When younger I took great pride in paying tax that paid for pensions for my grandparents and their generation. Now the next generation have to pay for us. It's the I'm alright you look after yourself idea that is killing this society.

And wasted money ? Wars are wasted money. I was on the pavement protesting against it i hope those moaning about waste were too.
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22-02-2018, 05:40 PM
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Re: Blame Game on Baby Boomers.

Originally Posted by Julie1962 ->
When younger I took great pride in paying tax that paid for pensions for my grandparents and their generation. Now the next generation have to pay for us. It's the I'm alright you look after yourself idea that is killing this society.

And wasted money ? Wars are wasted money. I was on the pavement protesting against it i hope those moaning about waste were too.
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All the wars would not even pay for 1% of the shortfall in State Pension.

We lnre about this 20 years ago and did nothing.

Other Countries did, that's why they have much better State Pensions than the UK has.

There is absolutely no logic to the retired not paying for the NHS and Social Care.

We should be doing.
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22-02-2018, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by twizzle ->
The point of education isn't just to train people for jobs. It's also to raise the knowledge, understanding and intellectual levels of the population and to aspire to more and better things.

This Brexiter style anti intellectualism reminds me so much of Brave New World. You seem to want to put young people into apprenticeships, to make sure they keep to their position in life, keep working to support their "betters" and don't look to the stars and get above themselves.

It's not unemployed graduates and student debt that are the burden, it's the top heavy amount of old people, many of whom had the chance to study non-vocational topics at university without paying a penny. Why should todays young people have more limitations?

Why would using pen and paper and no calculators make any difference? The world has moved on from the 1950s and we need to make sure our children are up to date with technology. That's all our children, not just those from middle class families who can afford private tuition and know how to push their children into grammar schools.

"What we should be doing is finding a way for society to reflect what boomers had for those who are generation X and millennials."

I agree with this bit and the best way to do this is to make well off Boomers less of a burden by means testing the state pension and changes in the way they are taxed. This would leave more cash in the kitty to improve things for the working generation.
What a load of claptrap, are you still stuck in the Victorian era where you assume that the working class are here to have our noses ground into the dirt and to touch our forelocks to some who are regarded to have a higher standing in society?

I had an apprenticeship to enable me to become an electrician, not to keep `my position in life` but to support and better myself which the apprenticeship allowed me to do. It allowed me to earn a living and then start my own successful business to support my family.

About time you stopped reading the Socialist Worker and stepped out from behind your narrow bigoted view and own sense of victimhood.

It's no sin to be born in the gutter but it is a terrible sin wanting to remain there
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22-02-2018, 11:15 PM
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It's the era of peace in the West that has caused costs of the elderly to spiral. In the olden days half the men would have died young. Everything has its price, even the good stuff.
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22-02-2018, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Judd ->
What a load of claptrap, are you still stuck in the Victorian era where you assume that the working class are here to have our noses ground into the dirt and to touch our forelocks to some who are regarded to have a higher standing in society?

I had an apprenticeship to enable me to become an electrician, not to keep `my position in life` but to support and better myself which the apprenticeship allowed me to do. It allowed me to earn a living and then start my own successful business to support my family.

About time you stopped reading the Socialist Worker and stepped out from behind your narrow bigoted view and own sense of victimhood.

It's no sin to be born in the gutter but it is a terrible sin wanting to remain there
Very well said mate......
 
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