[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Chris

Grow up. There was a baby boom when world war 2 ended and large numbers of conscripts were demobbed and sent home. The infants born to the generation who fought the war are, and have always been, known as baby boomers. It’s a fact of history and it’s utterly hilarious of you to claim it’s discriminatory. If you’re of that generation, and especially if you’re white, male and middle class, you have been best placed of anyone in that generation to benefit from being
the first born into the welfare state and, as a young adult, among the ones who fought for, and achieved, social liberation, and also among the ones who saw housing cheap and mortgage values shrink almost by the month. You of all those who have lived in this country since the war are the most economically privileged and least discriminated against in our entire history.

I have never claimed that all of these circumstances were brought about deliberately by boomers. Some indeed were the deliberate and direct outcome of policies boomers campaigned and voted for; others were not.

However, the massive wealth pile this generation now sits on, and votes to ensure it retains, is a problem that boomers as a generation are obviously unwilling to easily part with, even though they are clearly intelligent enough to understand the negative consequences their second homes and triple-locked pensions are having on their children and their grandchildren’s own future prospects.

Observe the way Teresa May crashed and burned for daring to suggest that this generation ought to pay back a little, which it could well afford to pay, out of its pension pot. That tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of this generation.

Didn't the Nazis decide that the Jews were too privileged to be allowed to keep their wealth?

You'll no doubt rail against me for making the comparisons with the Nazis - but it's valid in terms of bemoaning the possessions of those who had no control over the times in which the lived, worked and saved.

And what do you mean that these so-called 'boomers', a term I deplore, that the should pay something back out of their pension pot? That's the politics of envy and criticises people who have lived, worked and saved in good society faith. To want to dip into their savings is disgraceful.

Society is struggling with mixed cultures, over-population and poor government. There is no reason to attack the 1964-64 cohort.