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NHS should provide retirement housing
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Graham_Devon wrote: »Isn't the reality that it's far more socially and politically acceptable to cut benefits and income for the younger generation than it is to cut for the older generation?
No one votes for their own lifestyle to worsen, thereofre pretty much everyone votes for something that won't effect them.
I'm not sure that HMG sees it that way. Other policies would suggest that they are more concerned with retaining the support of younger voters, notably keeping interest rates low and inflating away debt.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
The boomer generation were not exposed to the range of additives, chemicals and general unhealthiness you can find in your average can of soft drinks.
That Asbestos was no bed of roses either
THE smog of mid-20th century was disastrous for Britain’s buildings as well as for human health.
A yellowy-black cloud, a thick fog which became known as a pea-souper, hung over Coventry and other UK cities as homes and businesses across the country burnt coal in open grates.'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
Where to begin?
Life expectancy's growing by 11 weeks every year (five hours per day). Considering mass sanitation gave us an ectra twenty years we can expect more people to be living past traditional retirement ages which will simply have to be torn up. In future generations people won't be able to retire until their seventies.
In the Netherlands they're building "kangaroo houses" with granny flats for elderly relatives to live with their younger families. It'll have to happen here eventually. That's a place to study to find out how to run our future rather than the sink--or-swim everyman for himself US model.
Oh yeah and instead of putting everybody through uni after "upgrading " polytechnics they should have expanded the Open University about ten-fold.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
In the Netherlands they're building "kangaroo houses" with granny flats for elderly relatives to live with their younger families. It'll have to happen here eventually. That's a place to study to find out how to run our future rather than the sink--or-swim everyman for himself US model.
They will have to find a fix for dementia first. Looking after someone with moderate to advanced dementia is definitely a job for the professionals.No-one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions. He had money as well.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
Margaret Thatcher0 -
GeorgeHowell wrote: »They will have to find a fix for dementia first. Looking after someone with moderate to advanced dementia is definitely a job for the professionals.
Cameron want sto set up 1 million dementia buddies.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20236034
Initially to build awareness but no doubt it will evolve into care as numbers grow.
No doubt somone will be along soon to tell us we should let them rot and save the burden being placed on the young."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 -
An option to ship yourself out to Switzerland would be nice before hearing outrage from the religious nut job brigade.0
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