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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Don't be ridiculous, jfman. Most of the baby boomers have worked hard all their lives and paid their taxes, unlike many of the younger generation, who seem to be content doing their own thing and claiming benefits. Not to mention claiming wads from the Bank of Mum and Dad.
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Yet despite all this tax paid, windfalls of privatisation, oil, the national debt shows no evidence that previous generations did anything other than squander it all and rack up £2 trillion of debt.
No surplus of all those pension pots sitting waiting to be extracted at retirement. We just have debt piling on to the young you are so dismissive of. Your contempt for them perhaps explains your acceptance that they should pay for you.