Baby Boomers making out like bandits as usual

RenovationMan

ruggedtoast wrote: »

The true colours of The Boomer will always come to the fore before long Graham. They are hopelessly confused in their arguments and contradict one another repeatedly.

The only recurring theme running through their protestations is that they absolutely aren't responsible for anything, at all, and younger generations should shut up and get back to work so that we can keep funding through taxation and price inflation their comfortable lifestyles as they move into retirement; lifestyles which will be denied to most of us when we retire.

Its a sad day but its what I suspected when I created this thread. I just needed to give them enough rope to hang themselves with.

My work is done.

Out of interest, who were the boomers who hung themselves? Indeed who were the boomers who even responded to this self pitying thread?

Can you name them?

Jimmy_31

JonnyBravo wrote: »

I do love this type of character.
The whole "its not fair, the world is going to hell in a skip and no-one can afford to live" type thing but of course underlying that the desperate need to show that it's just others they're talking about as clearly they are minted and will be buying 3 houses outright with their savings.

Correct pal, i dont think it is easy to get by in this day and age for the average working man.

Im not minted and i wont be buying 3 houses as one is enough for me, i really couldnt be arsed coming home from a days work and then have to pi55 about looking after a tenants problems and needs.

I should be alright with my housing situation soon enough but there are still plenty of people who wont stand a chance of housing themselves due to the corruption in this country.

Jimmy_31

Pimperne1 wrote: »

If I was in the construction industry I would be looking saving up, not to buy a house, but to buy land and then borrow to build on it. Otherwise its a bit like being a painter and getting someone in to paint your house for you.

If you was in the construction industry you would know that the banks wouldnt lend you a penny because you are self employed and constantly in and out of work.

I wouldnt pay current land prices either.

System

ukcarper wrote: »

It’s a big surprise that people who have worked somewhere between 31 and 49 years has accumulated more wealth that someone who has worked a few years.

New research shows people who have contributed more into their pension pots tend to have bigger pension pots

System

ruggedtoast wrote: »

and if they give it to a homeless or a Guardian reader

Up to that point you had nearly convinced me that you were serious.

Nice twist

ILW

If to be a boomer you need to be over 45, seems a bit odd that most city traders, investment bankers footballers etc are in the hard done by generation.

RenovationMan

ILW wrote: »

If to be a boomer you need to be over 45, seems a bit odd that most city traders, investment bankers footballers etc are in the hard done by generation.

Don't forget the internet millionaires/billionaires.

heathcote123

Jimmy_31 wrote: »

Im not minted and i wont be buying 3 houses as one is enough for me, i really couldnt be arsed coming home from a days work and then have to pi55 about looking after a tenants problems and needs.

If you make it 5, you probably wont have to bother going to work, so it wont seem such a hardship.

markharding557

With a wasted generation hitting the dole queues all over the country, their pockets stuffed with worthless new labour exam certificates, and their own parents struggling to pay the rent to their boomer btl slumlords, it is clear that these boomers have the country stitched up like a kipper.

It is not the boomers who have stitched the country and the young generation,it is the incompetence and near criminal neglect of the last four governments.
I blame them all in equal measure.

ceridwen

"enough rope to hang themselves" O.P.??:rotfl:

To coin a phrase "Chip - meet shoulder". I guess you HAVE heard the phrase "to have a chip on the shoulder".

Hadn't remembered it for a while - but your thread has reminded me of it for some strange reason:rotfl: