Tommorows generation paying for todays mistakes

Count_Dante

When people get older, there is an inevitable cognitive decline. I wonder what proportion of those 68-70 year olds are still able to function at an acceptable level? Will businesses be able to demote people to jobs they are still able to do, instead of paying some [STRIKE]doddery old fool[/STRIKE] vulnerable elderly person a shed load of cash for useless work?

Personally, I don't understand why people choose to live to the point where they are unable to function. What's the flipping point? I will start to drink myself stupid by my late fifties so it doesn't happen to me.

alared

What really angers me is when this Labour gang got in in 97 they promised so much and delivered so little.
All the taxes that Brown invented and raised and all the money he stole from pension funds, that are now bankrupt,was all for nothing.
He`s ruined the country and wasted all the revenue,the pot is empty and we`ve got to pay for generations to come.

He`ll skulk off to a better paid job,have a massive pension and write his memoirs for which some idiots will pay a fortune.
No wonder politicians are viewed lower than even estate agents. :mad:

Thrugelmir

Count_Dante wrote: »

When people get older, there is an inevitable cognitive decline. I wonder what proportion of those 68-70 year olds are still able to function at an acceptable level? Will businesses be able to demote people to jobs they are still able to do, instead of paying some [STRIKE]doddery old fool[/STRIKE] vulnerable elderly person a shed load of cash for useless work?

Personally, I don't understand why people choose to live to the point where they are unable to function. What's the flipping point? I will start to drink myself stupid by my late fifties so it doesn't happen to me.

A considerable number of the type of people you describe are still capable of being Directors of FTSE 100 companies.

Its a question of wanting to keep body and mind active.

Self inflicting liver disease doesn't seem a particularly good way of ending ones innings in life.

Sapphire

Count_Dante wrote: »

When people get older, there is an inevitable cognitive decline. I wonder what proportion of those 68-70 year olds are still able to function at an acceptable level? Will businesses be able to demote people to jobs they are still able to do, instead of paying some [STRIKE]doddery old fool[/STRIKE] vulnerable elderly person a shed load of cash for useless work?

Personally, I don't understand why people choose to live to the point where they are unable to function. What's the flipping point? I will start to drink myself stupid by my late fifties so it doesn't happen to me.

A very selfish and ignorant point of view. I'm sure that when you get older yourself you will not hold the point of view you have expressed.

Shame there's so little regard for the elderly in this country – a huge contrast to how it used to be, and how it is in most other countries, including ones with huge poverty.

StevieJ

Sapphire wrote: »

A very selfish and ignorant point of view. I'm sure that when you get older yourself you will not hold the point of view you have expressed.

Shame there's so little regard for the elderly in this country – a huge contrast to how it used to be, and how it is in most other countries, including ones with huge poverty.

I agree, I think the decency of a country and its people can be measured by how they treat the most vulnerable members of that society.

olly300

kennyboy66 wrote: »

I've had a better standard of living and education than my parents, who likewise had it better than their parents.

I'd expect my children to do likewise.

WHEN DO YOU PEOPLE STOP MOANING ?

ITS NOT FAIR, OH POOR ME.

NO WONDER THE AUSSIES CALL US WHINGEING POMS.

Actually for the first time in years they are predicting that those under 15 won't due to the lifestyle that we are giving them. They are going to die earlier because they are obese or/and don't do enough exercise. We are using to many of the world's resources so there won't be enough left for future generation unless we start changing our lifestyle dramatically.

Oh and the Aussies I have met, know and work with whinge more than anything. They make the British look like amateurs.