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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
My parents are OAPs 
They think I am a cash machine 
Quite frequently they bring up the subject about its right that OAPs should be treated better, young people should fund holidays etc. for them. I dont argue I just sit silent when they start about it. My sister was homeless for nearly 2 years and even then they were asking her for money and to be frank they are pretty comfortable, they should be happy with their situation, my sympathy may be affected by the fact they thought they stopped been parents the moment we turned 18.
A fair few of today's problems are directly as a result of the protection given to OAPs, housing, council tax relief funding, working age benefits. All affected by the preferential treatment of pensioners.
We effectively do have a battle of the generations. If you think about house prices, a fair few of the baby boomer generation have invested in property and its in their interests for rents and house prices to go up. However young people struggle with rising rents and struggle to get on the housing ladder due to the cost of buying a home. |
So you're unhappy with your OAP parents and assume all OAPs to be cut from the same cloth? Not all pensioners are 'comfortable' and viewing this as a generational struggle is just succumbing to press rhetoric.
I can understand how your circumstances colour your judgement but pensioners are a soft target and, btw, you won't have your mum and dad forever. Better to be hounding big business to pay its fair share of tax than to make the lives of old people miserable by denying them a few bob.