Retired people could work for pensions..

PaulF81

ukcarper wrote: »

Nothing to do with the banking crisis.

who is sitting on the assets that caused the banking crisis?

we wouldnt have a deficit if we didnt have an nhs (main recipients oaps) or alternatively didnt pay pensions.

Loughton_Monkey

I recall a program on the radio, somewhile ago, that came up with a good suggestion.

They suggested that 'monitors' for all these video cameras on the streets, in banks, and department stores, should be installed in old peoples homes.

The inmates, who have nothing else to do, providing they still had sight, and didn't suffer from dementia or really bad incontinence, would sit with a bank of these monitors in front of them.

If and when they ever spotted something "going down", they would hit a big red button and alert the police. They would be rewarded with a few custard creams and tea bags, with special bonuses whenever someone was caught.

A sort of bingo, really.

ukcarper

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

I recall a program on the radio, somewhile ago, that came up with a good suggestion.

They suggested that 'monitors' for all these video cameras on the streets, in banks, and department stores, should be installed in old peoples homes.

The inmates, who have nothing else to do, providing they still had sight, and didn't suffer from dementia or really bad incontinence, would sit with a bank of these monitors in front of them.

If and when they ever spotted something "going down", they would hit a big red button and alert the police. They would be rewarded with a few custard creams and tea bags, with special bonuses whenever someone was caught.

A sort of bingo, really.

That could really catch on my Grandad who was not mobile loved to look out of his window and certainly would have noticed anything dodgy. They might even find some cameras overlooking something we might find interesting.

ukcarper

PaulF81 wrote: »

who is sitting on the assets that caused the banking crisis?

we wouldnt have a deficit if we didnt have an nhs (main recipients oaps) or alternatively didnt pay pensions.

I see you are reluctant to say how much you have paid in.

PaulF81

ukcarper wrote: »

I see you are reluctant to say how much you have paid in.

as a 40% taxpayer with a private pension and not due to retire due to previous generations greed until probably 75.

ukcarper

PaulF81 wrote: »

as a 40% taxpayer with a private pension and not due to retire due to previous generations greed until probably 75.

and if you believe that you will believe anything.

dryhat

Us "boomers" have benefited enournously from the "system".

To deny this and say that youngsters today are better off is disingeneous to say the least.

But it is not our fault that the "system" is now f*cked.
It was always unsustainable; but while we were getting the benefits nobody cared.
Now that the benefits and promises are under threat, the unsustainability has been exposed. The younger generations are beginning to realise that their prospects are not looking good and they should be angry.

But rather than young and old turning on each other and looking for someone to blame we, the people, should be uniting along different lines and fighting the real enemy together.

Sapphire

dryhat wrote: »

Us "boomers" have benefited enournously from the "system".

I'm sorry, but certainly not all of 'us boomers have benefitted enormously from the system'. You may have done so, and so may a variety of public sector workers, politicians, bankers and the like – and the parents of the individual who is now posting derogatory comments about pensioners here. However, I know plenty of pensioners who are surviving on very meagre pensions and are finding it hard to make ends meet.

Frankly, people who post such comments are living in cloud-cuckoo land and have simply not done their research. It's a kind of wishful thinking to justify their own sense of grievance and entitlement.

I do, however, think that those who have very large pensions – let's say more than around £30,000 p.a. – could pay more in some way. Certainly, the very wealthy whether working or not, could pay more anyway, and there should be a tax on second homes to raise money and a way found to close tax havens, so that everyone pays their fair share of tax. Of course, this will not come about because there are too many politicians and their cronies with their own snouts in the trough. Remember: we are all in this together. :cool:

It's odd that people like the above poster do not attack the crooks at the 'top' of the pile, but have a go at pensioners. Perhaps they simply have issues with their own parents?

xylophone

we wouldnt have a 1 trillion national debt would we?

Could this be something to do with the financial crisis?
Are you blaming the pensioners for this? Were they the people who were borrowing to live beyond their means? I don't think so!

And today's pensioners paid ( and many are still paying through their taxes)
for the pensions of their parents' generation, ( I know people of 60+ whose parents are still living) and for the NHS and for education, public housing, public administration etc etc.........

And I wonder how many of today's pensioners are giving what help they can to their children and grandchildren?
You need to think before you write!

ukcarper

xylophone wrote: »

Could this be something to do with the financial crisis?
Are you blaming the pensioners for this?

I think he blames them fow everything