I could give you a wide range of counter arguments: - They paid for us when we were young (parenthood its called). - They have worked the biggest part of their life and deserve time-off, if thats travelling around the globe or if they just have fun is seeing themselfves and counterparts waste away while watching matlock. He does have a case. - We young people would wish for the same
Some interesting angles Draghermosran <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
A couple of the points remind me of a short debate that took place a few months ago in the letters column of our National paper. The topic was how to cope with the expected bulge in older retired people that will soon be here as the first of the post war "baby boomer" generation start retiring.
Some really quite vicious letters were written in by some readers who accused the older generation of being a bunch of morally and spiritually bankrupt planet rapers. They claimed that we taught our kids nothing but values of greed, and we wrecked the housing market by buying investment properties, etc etc. The tone was that we could all rot in hell when we retired. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
I had a letter published in which I said that neither I nor my friends had any investment houses, or even shares, and that the "baby boomers" I knew seemed mostly to be decent and helpful people. I also pointed out that as a fairly numerous bunch we’d paid a lot of taxes that had not only paid for much of the care of the last generation but also had coughed up for the care and education of the next ones. I said that I hoped that at least some of the more needy of us could get a little help. I was sneered at for being an "apologist" for the sins of the generation!
So I’m not relying on too much support in my retirement. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
