UK: Boomer Generation Destroyed UK

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VinceP1974
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UK: Boomer Generation Destroyed UK

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Longish article in UK's Daily Mail

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z0i6dAFTMn
How the baby boomers bust Britain: Self-indulgence has left the country financially, socially and even morally crippled
By Dominic Sandbrook
Last updated at 5:43 PM on 13th March 2010

They are the luckiest people in history: the richest, most secure and most powerful generation the world has ever seen.

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But even as the first baby boomers are retiring and looking forward to their hefty pensions, the cost of their 60-year spree is becoming unpleasantly apparent.

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While Britons lucky enough to be teenagers when the Beatles were in their heyday can congratulate themselves on their timing, those of us born after 1965 face a rather more disturbing prospect.

For, if Willetts is right, we will not only be picking up the bill for our parents' surging healthcare and pension costs, we will also be paying off their public debt for decades

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It was the baby boomers, with their 'me generation' values, who spearheaded the sweeping social changes of the late Sixties and Seventies, when the illegitimacy rate almost doubled from seven to 13 per cent, the annual abortion tally leapt from 24,000 to 170,000, and the divorce rate almost quadrupled.
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For the boomers are not only bequeathing a more individualistic, selfish, atomised society. They are also handing over a Britain addicted to spending and crippled by debt - public and private. The figures showing our terrifying national debt are well known. In January alone, the Treasury borrowed a staggering £4.3 billion, putting it on course for a record £178 billion deficit by the end of the year.

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While Willetts suggests a revival of the family, the most basic and effective welfare system of all, might provide the answer, you wonder whether generations steeped in self-indulgence will be able to learn the self-discipline necessary to turn back the clock.

The truth is the baby-boomers' party went on too long. They ignored the warnings of their parents and were enjoying themselves so much they could barely hear the cries of their children.


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OLD1953
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Re: UK: Boomer Generation Destroyed UK

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The responses to the British riots have been astonishing in their uniformity for calls to somehow "return to a moral era" that existed in the past. The generational tilt of these articles is impressive, if you know to look for it.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... value.html

That one could easily have been written by C.S. Lewis.

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