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Current a level students won't get a pension till 77... Lets cut boomers pensions NOW

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  • GeorgeHowell
    GeorgeHowell Posts: 2,739 Forumite
    CLAPTON wrote: »
    I think 'he' is a 'she'.

    Fair enough, but hopefully this is a gender neutral forum ;)
    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 Thatcher
  • GeorgeHowell
    GeorgeHowell Posts: 2,739 Forumite
    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.

    Boomers outnumber the generation ahead of them by a considerable margin, yet the number of 'old' old people who are actually looked after by their children rather than strangers, as they looked after their parents, is vanishingly small.

    I presume this board will be full of posts about how selfish Gen X and Y are if they dont take on elderly boomer parents at home in the years to come.

    The majority of people who go into care homes nowadays do so because of dementia. Looking after someone with moderate to severe dementia at home is not a viable option. It's not beneficial to anyone to attempt this, including the sufferer. It needs professional care in a managed environment. No doubt someone will disagree with this, but you have to have experienced the effects of dementia in someone first-hand to know that it is indisputably true.
    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 Thatcher
  • thorsoak
    thorsoak Posts: 7,166 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    StevieJ wrote: »
    Could be worse, it could be you or Biggles making the decisions :eek:
    No- RuggedToast won't be sending us to OAP Homes - he advocates a 1-way ticket to Dignatas - and he won't wait until we are too old and infirm to object!

    PS - yes I am female!
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Just popping my head in to say loving the thread and all the contributors. The bit about "we older people have more sense than you" was a decent highlight, but I'm sure there are more to come!
  • BertieUK
    BertieUK Posts: 1,701 Forumite
    GeorgeHowell wrote: »
    The majority of people who go into care homes nowadays do so because of dementia. Looking after someone with moderate to severe dementia at home is not a viable option. It's not beneficial to anyone to attempt this, including the sufferer. It needs professional care in a managed environment. No doubt someone will disagree with this, but you have to have experienced the effects of dementia in someone first-hand to know that it is indisputably true.

    I could not agree more with you George, my MIL who was living with us had dementia quite severly and we just could not cope at all, it was heatbreaking to see someone with this illnes and we had to put her into professional care, sadly she recently passed away.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Just popping my head in to say loving the thread and all the contributors. The bit about "we older people have more sense than you" was a decent highlight, but I'm sure there are more to come!

    I take it you are in full agreement with paul
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    ukcarper wrote: »
    I take it you are in full agreement with paul

    Would it make any difference if I said no? Or is your mind made up?

    Don't understand the need to jump down my throat in all honesty, I didn't say anything against anyone.
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Just popping my head in to say loving the thread and all the contributors. The bit about "we older people have more sense than you" was a decent highlight, but I'm sure there are more to come!

    Older people haven't got any more sense but may have learned form may more mistakes or when they have made right choices. Wisdom perhaps? - Doesn't mean they can apply it or that they won't continue to make the same mistakes knowing they are wrong.
    "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 Muruganantham
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    Graham_Devon wrote: »
    Would it make any difference if I said no? Or is your mind made up?

    Don't understand the need to jump down my throat in all honesty, I didn't say anything against anyone.

    To be honest I would be surprised if you did agree with him, but you do seem to be searching this thread for any little thing to make out older posters think young people are inferior to them which I for one don't.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    To be honest I would be surprised if you did agree with him, but you do seem to be searching this thread for any little thing to make out older posters think young people are inferior to them which I for one don't.

    Searching?

    I'm just reading. It's not exactly hard to find!
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