Ignitionnet,
The personalisation is for no other purpose than to dispel the stereotyping which yours and other's generalisations appear to portray. On every bell curve distribution there are outliers. The example you found is an outlier in the boomer group as much as you are an outlier within your age group.
To stereotype one has to centre within the bell curve and I can assure you that there a a heck of a lot of very worried boomers in the centre with a lot of extremely worried ones towards the negative end.
Your self depreciation of being in the top 5% of earners is misplaced, when in my eyes, it is worthy of applause. On a pro rata basis I wish I had been in such a position at such a young age but I wasn't as that was the time I was juggling debts during the 14 year build process.
As for the eluded to waste of funds and the use thereof which you insist was so boomer orientated. We had no more control over its use than now. We voted just like you have been able to do for 15 years and democracy dictated how the dice rolled. You had just as much say in the election and subsequent re-elections of Labour as did I and as the outcome has been and will be possibly the biggest financial crisis in history, blame knows no generational boundaries (apart from those without a vote).
The Daily Mail article you linked to is just more total nonsense. That is just grabbing some numbers that suit to supposedly prove a point and of course we all know many consultants who are of typical of each generation
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They also forgot to mention in the article that with a 30 year age gap the poor hard done by child will most probably have received a trickle down of the parent's small fortune and will indeed be a great deal more fortunate than the parents. A good case there for if there is only one child to lobby for the 1 million pound inheritance tax so beloved by the Tories which with the carry over would give the lot to the child. No worries about pensions for the child unless a parent manages a Monarch's telegram.
I would have thought the greatest harm done to this country in living memory or perhaps forever according to Mervyn King has been done by the last administration and this lot may do no better. Your vote and mine and we both end up unhappy chappies
I missed (apart from the house boom) much of the bounty in the form of ridiculous salary rises under Labour's wealth friendly regime. I would think the biggest task at hand for the top 5% is to hang on to those jobs. I do not care if my house goes down in price but as you pointed out the quantum rise started in 1997... see the linkage. House boom = salary boom. Looks like a rock and hard place unless you are lucky
The media appears as geared towards creating societal divisions as the current government. The we are all in it together and mending the broken society appears to have been somewhat lost in the generate hatred and let them smash it all to smithereens. Makes me wonder what joys are in store if internal divisions are a precursor.