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<blockquote data-quote="Danllan" data-source="post: 7357033" data-attributes="member: 8735"><p>Is that setting aside the fact that the people receiving pensions paid in for the whole of their lives... you seem to be having the sort of 'meltdown' that one would normally expect from the entitled brats you mention.</p><p></p><p>Their futures are not 'wrecked', there is only a temporary problem. Suffering a severe spinal injury, having your spouse die when you've small children, or seeing a close friend blown to mincemeat in front of you could well be described as 'wrecking' one's life. Not the current situation in which everyone is in the same boat, there is an obvious route out of the problem, and we live in a rich democracy in which politicians can be forced to act if there is sufficient public will.</p><p></p><p>But tell you what, rather than taking money and services away from eighty year olds who have paid for and been promised them for life, why not completely cancel the UK's foreign aid budget? That will 'free-up' £15bns yearly which, by a happy coincidence, would allow a gift of >£10k to all university students not 'studying' for Mickey Mouse degrees from the University of Nowhere. Or, better still, <u>entirely</u> <u>subsidise</u> tuition for the students who are studying degrees <u>beneficial</u> <u>to</u> <u>the</u> <u>country</u> - there are about 700,000 of those - and give them a maintenance grant too. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up (y)" loading="lazy" data-shortname="(y)" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p>Should that be extrapolated to one's children too?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Danllan, post: 7357033, member: 8735"] Is that setting aside the fact that the people receiving pensions paid in for the whole of their lives... you seem to be having the sort of 'meltdown' that one would normally expect from the entitled brats you mention. Their futures are not 'wrecked', there is only a temporary problem. Suffering a severe spinal injury, having your spouse die when you've small children, or seeing a close friend blown to mincemeat in front of you could well be described as 'wrecking' one's life. Not the current situation in which everyone is in the same boat, there is an obvious route out of the problem, and we live in a rich democracy in which politicians can be forced to act if there is sufficient public will. But tell you what, rather than taking money and services away from eighty year olds who have paid for and been promised them for life, why not completely cancel the UK's foreign aid budget? That will 'free-up' £15bns yearly which, by a happy coincidence, would allow a gift of >£10k to all university students not 'studying' for Mickey Mouse degrees from the University of Nowhere. Or, better still, [U]entirely[/U] [U]subsidise[/U] tuition for the students who are studying degrees [U]beneficial[/U] [U]to[/U] [U]the[/U] [U]country[/U] - there are about 700,000 of those - and give them a maintenance grant too. (y) :) Should that be extrapolated to one's children too? [/QUOTE]
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