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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Don’t be daft. We are where we are.
My generation had to pay off the crippling loan with the US for the Second World War but I don’t recollect any of us moaning about it. We just got on with it. We never expected everything to be given to us on a silver platter.
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It was not crippling. It was £27 billion in today’s money, which is extremely large but not grossly out of proportion with the national budget. Plus we got 61 years to pay it off. And while paying it off we still managed to set up the NHS, build tens of thousands of council houses and maintain a military throughout the Cold War that was considerably larger than we have today.
Yours is the only generation in history that has ever had everything handed to it on a silver platter, which is why those of us following you have the dubious honour of being the first whose wealth has failed to exceed that of their parents.
Boomers did have it so good, not that it stops them moaning about it.