Thread: Osborne's 'Pensioner bonds' - bribing OAPs with everyone else's money
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Old 18-01-2015, 10:49   #56
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Re: Osborne's 'Pensioner bonds' - bribing OAPs with everyone else's money
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet View Post
I will save a few quid on that meeting as my advice would consist of 'Thanks for paying 6 figures on other people's state pensions. You're on your own. Please either get private healthcare or die quickly to avoid burdening what's left of the NHS.'.
This: I find disturbing, and it's becoming a bit of a mantra now.
What next? Euthanasia for the old so they're not a 'burden'...

I don't normally disagree with ignition but..

I'm reading jealousy? for the older generation (I'm not quite at that stage yet, but in another 20 years I will be)
Why does the younger generation always 'blame' the older for having a better/luckier/nicer deal. It's not like they, any more than you, had any choice about when they were born, or the benefit of any crystal ball to see how things would be better/worse 60 years down the line.
They simply did what everyone in each generation does. They make the best of the situation as it is at that time. It's called Human Nature - don't bitch about them for doing it.

Mr A raised an interesting point. When he pointed out, its as much the people that don't vote that makes the difference, as those who do.

I suggest, instead of getting upset at a whole section of the voting public who actually get up off their arses and vote, you perhaps concentrate your efforts on those 'younger' ones who don't. That way this or any other Government won't see the grey/silver vote as something to be 'bribed' and will focus on another demographic who votes in large numbers instead. Who knows, perhaps it will be your age group next!
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