Rich babyboomers behaving like the nobility in the peasants revolt...

Graham_Devon

... Could face an uprising by the younger generation if the situation does not change, warns HSBC's chief economist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10170101/Europes-rich-could-face-uprising-similar-to-Peasants-Revolt.html

And hey, I'm just the messenger starting the riot!

olly300

You aren't starting anything.

Once the government admits the truth by raising the retirement age watch pensioner benefits disappear.

neverdespairgirl

Mr. King needs to pick a historical analogy with which he is more familiar.

That lot is just so full of incorrect historical facts and impressions as to be ridiculous.

Ronaldo_Mconaldo

And what's going to happen, eh? The youth of today is going to stop playing Candy Crush on their mobiles and do what? Get their pitch forks out and demand a bit more money? And from whom? The "Baby Boomers"? In other words, their own parents? Not going to happen.

Stephen King needs to get back to mass producing hooror stories rather than giving the world financial advice.

ash28

Graham_Devon wrote: »

... Could face an uprising by the younger generation if the situation does not change, warns HSBC's chief economist.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10170101/Europes-rich-could-face-uprising-similar-to-Peasants-Revolt.html

And hey, I'm just the messenger starting the riot!

The Peasants Revolt is also known as the Poll Tax Riots (for fairly obvious reasons)......another government tried to introduce a poll tax 600 years later, wonder what happened then?

Own_My_Own

Ronaldo_Mconaldo wrote: »

Stephen King needs to get back to mass producing hooror stories rather than giving the world financial advice.

I do hope hope you were joking . And don't really think Stephen King writes horror stories.

http://www.economist.com/node/21006933/contributors/Stephen%20King

seven-day-weekend

As a Baby Boomer (born 1950), what 'sense of entitlement' am I supposed to have and what behaviour am I suppose to modify?

ash28

Own_My_Own wrote: »

I do hope hope you were joking . And don't really think Stephen King writes horror stories.

http://www.economist.com/node/21006933/contributors/Stephen%20King

But this one does.........

http://www.stephenking.com/the_library.html

Loved The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile btw

Own_My_Own

ash28 wrote: »

But this one does.........

http://www.stephenking.com/the_library.html

Loved The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile btw

You don't say :rotfl:

CLAPTON

handy that then

nothing to do with rich bankers or the growing gap between the rich and the ordinary person?

Graham_Devon

CLAPTON wrote: »

handy that then

nothing to do with rich bankers or the growing gap between the rich and the ordinary person?

You couldn't make the hypocrisy up could you!