A desperate cry of anguish for "Boomer Rage"

ash28

ruggedtoast wrote: »

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jul/05/baby-boomers-voting-muscle



Wise words indeed. It is a shame the wisdom of his years has not been taken up by his colleagues on this forum.

A couple of things

Opinion polls show that the now elderly baby boomers will use their increasing voting power to ensure that when the bad times come, the young are hit first, even though it is by a chancellor of the exchequer who was not even born until the 60s were over.

How can a declining demographic, along with increased population have "ever increasing voting power"....

And as a boomer born in the mid 1950s I don't by any stretch of the imagination class myself as elderly.

We force our children into the school uniforms we rejected, partly because they help the police to recognise those who ought to be at school. It is like making them wear prison uniform so they will be instantly recognisable when they scale their prison walls.

I wore a school uniform all of my secondary school life....as did every other pupil in schools where we lived. My mother on the other hand went to secondary school in the 1940s when only the grammar schools in the area wore uniforms.....I thought uniforms were meant to give a sense of identity and be a social equaliser.....

We are the first generation in which pretty well everyone can read and write fairly fluently

Absolute nonsense.

The freedoms the baby boomers fought for, they deny to their children. "Hoodie" was just a name for a garment in fashion with children and teenagers, until it was demonised by people who were young and fashionable in the 60s.

I though it was demonised by the Daily Mail........

Harold Wilson saved the baby boomers from having to fight alongside young Americans in Vietnam. When the baby boomer generation formed a government, its prime minister, Tony Blair, told lies to the young so that he could send them to fight alongside the Americans in Iraq.

However, we did have Northern Ireland, Aden, Falklands, First Gulf War, Balkans.......not to mention Oman and Dhofar and some may have been involved in Borneo. My brother is boomer (1960) too and was involved in the Falklands, First Gulf War and the Balkans conflicts....Mr Beckett has suffered a large memory loss if he thinks there was no UK involvement in conflict, or that conflict didn't involve boomers, in the years between Harold Wilson and Tony Blair.

And all boomers are to blame because Tony Blair is one........sheesh.

Loughton_Monkey

My Local.......

Fella

When the baby boomers were young, they believed society could afford student grants; now they are old, they think it can afford pensions.


On the whole both thoughts are reasonable, since during their generation only a fraction of the population went to university compared to now. And as most of them paid heavily into the system it's completely reasonable for them to expect a pension.



On the other hand, the students who are today protesting that tuition isn't "free" will undoubtedly be protesting about how high their taxes are in years to come. I wonder if any of them will be able to join the dots?

ruggedtoast

antrobus wrote: »

"Wisdom of his years"? Surely you jest sir? Are you sure you don't mean Francis Beckett wins a nomination for twonk of the year?

Examples;



Complete and utter bollox. Five minutes spent here on MSE would reveal numerous examples of people who are totally incapable of constructing anything even approaching an untelligible sentence.



Why does this conjur up the image in my mind of Jack Nicolson asking "why can't we all just get along" just before the Martians zap him?

Vacuous nonsense of the worse kind.

I won't disagree with you there.

mayonnaise

Loughton_Monkey wrote: »

My Local.......

Ruggedtoast's Local.....

dryhat

mayonnaise's local ...

mayonnaise

dryhat wrote: »

mayonnaise's local ...

:rotfl: good one, dryhat

dryhat

I'm a bit disappointed actually.

I was expecting one back .

mayonnaise

dryhat wrote: »

I'm a bit disappointed actually.

I was expecting one back .

Nah, I'm here for reasoned debate, not tit for tat posting.
Now back on topic please.

dryhat

mayonnaise wrote: »

Nah, I'm here for reasoned debate, not tit for tat posting.
Now back on topic please.

What?

You were the one that started it with the dig at ruggedtoast.