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Increasingly I have nothing but despise for this generation. Harsh, but I am being honest. The mess this country in is really down to this generation...
Increasingly I have nothing but despise for this generation. Harsh, but I am being honest. The mess this country in is really down to this generation...
Anyone else feel this way?
At least they learnt some basic literacy skills.
The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.
Maybe you should elaborate before we comment but I find much criticism is due to ignorance.
For example, one often sees the assertion that we all got cheap student grants and tuition fees. Look at the facts and you find, that in my day, only the high achievers at A level got a university place at all and most of us got good jobs as a result. Now more than ten times as many go on to higher education and many do pointless courses that are of no benefit to themselves or society. Many do not earn enough extra to make the time spent worthwhile and have contributed 3 years less to their pension pot. High student fees are a result of idiotic socialist ideas, not a result of past spending on baby boomers.
Many now recently retired also do an enormous amount of voluntary work. They not only save on council spending by doing stuff like footpath repairs, helping the disabled or really elderly but are the main workforce for organisations like the National trust and English Heritage, which play a major part in attracting billions worth of tourism to the UK.
Mind you, if you consider some of our ghastly past and present politicians are baby boomers you may have a point. although the errors began long before that. The real idiocy began with Lloyd George.
Maybe you should elaborate before we comment but I find much criticism is due to ignorance.
For example, one often sees the assertion that we all got cheap student grants and tuition fees. Look at the facts and you find, that in my day, only the high achievers at A level got a university place at all and most of us got good jobs as a result. Now more than ten times as many go on to higher education and many do pointless courses that are of no benefit to themselves or society. Many do not earn enough extra to make the time spent worthwhile and have contributed 3 years less to their pension pot. High student fees are a result of idiotic socialist ideas, not a result of past spending on baby boomers.
Many now recently retired also do an enormous amount of voluntary work. They not only save on council spending by doing stuff like footpath repairs, helping the disabled or really elderly but are the main workforce for organisations like the National trust and English Heritage, which play a major part in attracting billions worth of tourism to the UK.
Mind you, if you consider some of our ghastly past and present politicians are baby boomers you may have a point. although the errors began long before that. The real idiocy began with Lloyd George.
I blame Vortigern.
The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.
Increasingly I have nothing but despise for this generation. Harsh, but I am being honest. The mess this country in is really down to this generation...
Anyone else feel this way?
Well each to his own.
Personally I couldn't give a toss - everyone who lives here is to blame.
"I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...
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