Tuesday, Mar 23, 2010
Boomers get violent when house prices fail to go up
BBC News: German IFA kidnap
Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Something like that.
But we want loads of money to buy a camper van and destroy the planet for all the young people.
Posted by chrisch @ 10:06 PM (755 views) Add Comment
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1. enuii said...
Go away - your tag line is twisting the story.
The main protaganists in the story are aged 74 and 80, i.e. born before WW2 even started and therefore not baby boomers!
2. Panda said...
Don't go away - your'e being dead on. I imagine that if pensioners, stoked up on a sense of permanent entitlement can kidnap someone, imagine the violence to be expected from the actual boomers, with a genuinely psychopathic level of violated expectation.
3. Topher Bear said...
Will he ever live it down! Kidnapped by a bunch of pensioners! Tee Hee!
4. dbc reed said...
@enuii
Hear hear! Baby boomers are innocent ! (of property inflationism).Born say 1946 they would have been buyng their first houses in the early 70's when the housing market started going silly in an enormous Tory- created spke after decades of flat prices. It is actually the people born before the war (like the main protagonists in the German story) who have done well out of HPI but being brought up during the war being bombed, evacuated and subject to rationing could not have been much fun.
5. The Baldman said...
If this happened to all the spivs, bankers and advisors who feed off us it might serve as as a lesson!
6. happy mondays said...
More money than sense!
7. mark wadsworth said...
DBC, the back story to this is that one of the commenters on this blog (Mr G) really hates it when people blame baby boomers.
I personally don't blame baby-boomers, I blame Home-Owner-Ists of whatever age, the fact that there is a positive correlation between Home-Owner-Ism and age is a separate issue.
8. mr g said...
Thanks for the mention MW.
I'll try not to get angry but some of the visceral hatred and bile that is aimed at my generation is downright hypocrisy from an age group that has also contributed to current house prices and financial problems.
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