Boomers Pension Gravy Train Finally To Be Derailed

ukcarper

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I probably wouldn't care because depsite working in a factory packing punnets for 30 years I would have ended up with a £650k house, two cars in the drive way and a yearly foreign holiday anyway on top of my generous pensions, winter fuel payments, free tv licenses and bus passes.

Its when you spend four years in HE, take on £40k of debt work for 30 years and still end up in a rented flat without a brass farthing and having never had children because you could never afford them, that people start to get ornery.

In your dreams you have a very distorted idea of what the vast majority of boomers have.

Have you still not grasped that boomers do not get a free TV licence.

missbiggles1

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I prefer to lunch alone. Thank you.

I expect they don't invite you over that often,;)

CLAPTON

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I probably wouldn't care because depsite working in a factory packing punnets for 30 years I would have ended up with a £650k house, two cars in the drive way and a yearly foreign holiday anyway on top of my generous pensions, winter fuel payments, free tv licenses and bus passes.

Its when you spend four years in HE, take on £40k of debt work for 30 years and still end up in a rented flat without a brass farthing and having never had children because you could never afford them, that people start to get ornery.

the price and lack of availability of family sized property in london and the SE is the result of supply and demand : sadly most of the posh elites and the foolish trots refuse to discuss reasons for the 'the demand' for accommodation.

ruggedtoast

MobileSaver wrote: »

Oh please! How desperate are you becoming to try to argue "young people" can only mean "18 year olds"?!?!?

Well I thought instead of dealing with specious fake statistics from dodgy non referenced websites that are selling travel adventures, I might actually use facts.

Firstly the actual number of students who take a gap year is around 27,000 per year, not some 2.5 million, which is nonsensical if you think about it for 3 seconds.

http://gapadvice.org/gap-year/facts-figures/

Secondly, what do you actually think a gap year is? Outside of the privileged middle classes a gap year is as likely to mean a year working in a Tesco warehouse to save money or figure out if they even want to go to university.

British teenagers can be quite adventurous and if you don't mind slumming it there are plenty of cheap ways to spend a year out, working in bars or harvesting things so see you can see some of the world, especially if parents help out a bit.

Its a good thing.

Prince William swanning around Borneo and the Gold Coast isn't what most students do before they head off for halls and a lifetime of having their salary garnered to pay back their university education.

Unfortunately all you really want to know is that your prejudices about young people are exactly as you want them to be though, so I am not expecting you to believe any of this, even though its true and backed up by verifiable statistics.

ruggedtoast

CLAPTON wrote: »

the price and lack of availability of family sized property in london and the SE is the result of supply and demand : sadly most of the posh elites and the foolish trots refuse to discuss reasons for the 'the demand' for accommodation.

!!!!!! stop going on about immigrants in every post. What are you the ghost of Joseph Goebbels or something?

ruggedtoast

ukcarper wrote: »

In your dreams you have a very distorted idea of what the vast majority of boomers have.

Have you still not grasped that boomers do not get a free TV licence.

Have you thought of writing a letter to your MP demanding a free tv license? Its intolerable hardship that you should have to pay for one.

Cakeguts

ruggedtoast wrote: »

News flash. Pretty much everyone works from the day they leave school. You presumably think further and higher education is a complete doss though, albeit one that costs about £12k a year of young people's own money now.

Otherwise, yeah, iPhones, foreign holidays, new build houses. What ridiculous stereotypes. Presumably you take your opinions of the young from TOWIE, or you spend too much time on Instagram.

What is Instagram? Why would I want to spend time on it? Do I need an iphone to get onto it? Does it cost money to be on it? If so I am not interested. I have better things to do with my time.

ukcarper

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Have you thought of writing a letter to your MP demanding a free tv license? Its intolerable hardship that you should have to pay for one.

Quite happy to pay my TV license.

CLAPTON

ruggedtoast wrote: »

!!!!!! stop going on about immigrants in every post. What are you the ghost of Joseph Goebbels or something?

one can't intelligently discuss the issue of shortage of housing without discussing both supply and demand: which is why there has been no intelligent discussions about housing during the last 25 years.

ruggedtoast

ukcarper wrote: »

Quite happy to pay my TV license.

Well I suggest you do so then.

Really at your age, you should know better.

Good day.