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Why the baby boomers shouldn't feel guilty
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homelessskilledworker wrote: »Exactly
Where is the commonsence/morality/justice in a 70 or 80 year old woman living in a huge 4 or 5 bedroomed house, when her children and grand children need more space to rear the next generation.
"She has her rights" just does not cut it as a sound argument.
Are you talking about people owning their own homes here, or people living in social housing? I can see an argument for the latter, but what people do with their own money is entirely up to them.Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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I'm still not feeling guilty!" The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
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So offer incentives to get people to move out they already pay more for living in the larger house by the way of council tax and water rates. I probably pay at least twice the price per litre of water than a family of 4 living in a smaller house.
Get yourself a water meter then and pay the same "roughly" pro rata."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
homelessskilledworker wrote: »Exactly
If this country is not carefull it will not be much longer before out future generations will be reared by welfare dependant chavs alone.
Forget the careful bit it won't be long before there is no real welfare state as we know it in this country.
Those that can will live in their gated communities and the rest will become even more feral in Dickensian slums.
The more you whinge about people that have something you haven't then you may find the hands that feed so many in this country decides enough is enough.
"I am not saying that many baby boomers did not work hard, but never has a generation worked so hard as they do today for a standard of living that they will never see for themselves. " Your quote is no different to that of many generations that have gone before.
Don't dispute that UKPLC is stuffed but I don't agree that it is a generation who are to blame. They have had little or no influence over where successive Governments and capitalism have taken us.
Funny how so many of those comfortable 4 and 5 bedroom homes are pulled down by the younger generations to develop them and maximise the return too."If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....
"big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham0 -
Incentives are the gentle approach, but they still allow the rich to say "Stuff you". Ultimately this is unacceptable and compulsory rationing becomes necessary.So offer incentives to get people to move out
Maybe 6 times as much, for what that's worth. Which isn't much, because the cost of providing a domestic mains water supply has only a small dependency on the amount actually consumed, so there's no logical reason why it would be fairer to charge by the litre.I probably pay at least twice the price per litre of water than a family of 4 living in a smaller house."It will take, five, 10, 15 years to get back to where we need to be. But it's no longer the individual banks that are in the wrong, it's the banking industry as a whole." - Steven Cooper, head of personal and business banking at Barclays, talking to Martin Lewis0 -
Truly the Baby Boomer will be recorded in posterity as the most selfish generation. They received a country at the apogee of its power and influence, and bequeath a near bankrupt island shorn of wealth and influence to their children.
Nice work boomers.0 -
homelessskilledworker wrote: »Exactly
Where is the commonsence/morality/justice in a 70 or 80 year old woman living in a huge 4 or 5 bedroomed house, when her children and grand children need more space to rear the next generation.
"She has her rights" just does not cut it as a sound argument.
If this country is not carefull it will not be much longer before out future generations will be reared by welfare dependant chavs alone.
If everyone knows that their house will be taken away from them in their old age if it is judged to be "too big" for them once their children are grown and their spouse has died, then you take away a huge incentive to work to earn to pay for a house. If you don't want the country to consist entirely of "welfare dependant (sic) chavs" then you need to create more incentives to earn and pay your own way, not take away what few incentives there are left.ruggedtoast wrote: »Truly the Baby Boomer will be recorded in posterity as the most selfish generation. They received a country at the apogee of its power and influence, and bequeath a near bankrupt island shorn of wealth and influence to their children.
Nice work boomers.
I think you will find that the apogee of British power and influence was before 1914.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
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Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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in 1945 the UK government debt was 250% of GDP; this was reduced to 30% of GDP by 2003 ; congratulations to the people that sacrificed and worked hard to achieve tthis
in 1945 less than 4% of the UK were able to go to University; by foregoing consumption the people then living were able to invest in universities so that now anyone with suffficent ability can now improve themselves by attending Uni.
in 1945 there were no motorways and very poor transport infrastructure in the UK; by being willing to sacrifice current consumption the people duing the last 60 years have massively improved things
in 1945 less that 5% of houses had central heating or hot water on tap; well done those people that have invested in heating improvements so that over 80% of properties now have ch & hw
in 1945 the range of foods available to ordinary people were very limited and rationed: well done those people who have made it possible to cheaply buy a massive range of quality food stuffs at every reasonable prices
in 1945 personal computers, internet, mobile phones, cheap international travel, fitted carpets, cheap and reliable cars were not available: by the hard work and initiative of the people over this period, all these wonders are now readily available to all (even to a load of useless whingers)
in addition, over this period since 1945, the wondeerful people that inhabited the UK made massive advances in medical care, improving peoples lives wonderfully in almost every way
so one must raise a glass to the wonderful people that populated these fair isles during this period of unprecendented improvement in all the people standard and quality of life
the only blot on the horizon is that is seems there are people who so lacking vision and awareness of historical perspectives that they only see decline and fall rather than have the vision and desire to entend the massive progress that has been made over the last 65 years
well done everyone that contributed to these wonderful fair isles0 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »Truly the Baby Boomer will be recorded in posterity as the most selfish generation. They received a country at the apogee of its power and influence, and bequeath a near bankrupt island shorn of wealth and influence to their children.
Nice work boomers.
I thought we inherited a country on it's knees and virtually bankrupt,0 -
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