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Old 25-02-2015, 13:17   #38
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Re: Cameron: No means testing for pensioner benefits

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Originally Posted by Ramrod View Post
That's been the norm for all of human history apart from a few decades after the last war. We are looking at the situation the we and our parents/grandparents had and are thinking that's how it's always been and should be, but that's not true
This of course begs the question of why it couldn't have stayed that way.

Shows in other metrics too.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...ration-britain



More own outright than have mortgages, more privately rent than socially, on current trends by 2022 more will privately rent than have mortgages.

The property owning democracy at its finest.
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