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Current a level students won't get a pension till 77... Lets cut boomers pensions NOW
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Many boomers left school at 14 and 15, worked til 65. I make that 50 years in the workplace.
Younger generations enjoyed three years at university plus a gap year and started work at 22. Add 50 years in the workplace til retirement. I make that 72 years retirement age.
Fair's fair and, after all, we're all in this together.
BTW I have completed 42 years working. So far.0 -
grizzly1911 wrote: »Interesting when the british were some of the first corporate drug dealers.
By 1773, the British reached a landmark 1,000 chests of opium in Canton with China consuming 2,000 chests annually by 1799.[62
In 1839 the refusal by Qing Dynasty authorities to import opium resulted in the First Opium War between China and Britain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong
I doubt we were the first but we did it a lot more effectively than the othersEU tariff on agricultual product 12.2%
some dairy products 42.1% cloths 11.4%
EU Clinical Trials Directive stops medical advances0 -
I am one of the oldest baby boomers - born 1945 - and I am still working. My husband died two years after retiring - so in all, I believe that he paid in far more than he took out - and at the same time I believe he gave far more than he ever received to this country. tAs for the nonsense about "free tv licences" - they are only available o pensioners over the age of 75 - so it is highly unlikely that baby boomers would even receive that bonus - if it could be so called.0
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I am one of the oldest baby boomers - born 1945 - and I am still working. My husband died two years after retiring - so in all, I believe that he paid in far more than he took out - and at the same time I believe he gave far more than he ever received to this country. tAs for the nonsense about "free tv licences" - they are only available o pensioners over the age of 75 - so it is highly unlikely that baby boomers would even receive that bonus - if it could be so called.
I'm afraid you aren't a boomer.0 -
Loanranger wrote: »Many boomers left school at 14 and 15, worked til 65. I make that 50 years in the workplace.
Younger generations enjoyed three years at university plus a gap year and started work at 22. Add 50 years in the workplace til retirement. I make that 72 years retirement age.
Fair's fair and, after all, we're all in this together.
BTW I have completed 42 years working. So far.
Many didn't have an effective no state pension offering either, or if it did it cam too late in life to really make real provision possible.
The prudent may have decided to save for themselves to make old age more comfortable but now those same savings are derided. If they had managed to salt it away in a pension the income, from said pension, wouldn't have been questioned in the same way."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 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »I'm afraid you aren't a boomer.
Splitting hairs - or should that be crumbs, Toasty .....see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/pensions/9563647/Record-numbers-reach-retirement-age-as-baby-boomers-turn-65.html
And by that definition, I think that even if you are not at the other end of the boom to myself, your pal Paul F81 will be tarred with the same brush....
I've decided - better to be a living boomer than a dead one!0 -
exarmydreamer wrote: »Please don't assume I was agreeing with OP, I was in fact referring to him always having a go at the pensioners who have every right to receive their pensions?. I don't agree with his greed at all.
Apologies if I did not make myself clear.
On reflection my post was couched in ambiguous terms also, and was by way of concurring what you said, not associating you with the OP.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 -
ruggedtoast wrote: »I'm afraid you aren't a boomer.
He's close enough to be spiritually included.
Next you'll be telling us that you're not a leftie.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: »He's close enough to be spiritually included.
Next you'll be telling us that you're not a leftie.
I think 'he' is a 'she'.EU tariff on agricultual product 12.2%
some dairy products 42.1% cloths 11.4%
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ruggedtoast wrote: »Which is ironic really as as the proliferation of granny being shipped off to the old folks home as soon as she cant make the stairs was pretty much invented by baby boomers.
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Could be worse, it could be you or Biggles making the decisions :eek:'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
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