Monday, Jul 05, 2010
The me first generation
Guardian: Baby boomers: powerful and selfish
The one piece of good news in the budget was that George Osborne restored the link between state pensions and earnings, which Margaret Thatcher broke in 1980. Osborne's decision comes just in time for the baby boomers – the children of the 1960s – to benefit.
But for the children of the baby boomers, governments offer only misery. Higher education minister David Willetts has made it clear that students' fees are going to go up. A lot. Baby boomers, born between 1945 and 1955, paid no fees at all when they were students in the free and carefree 60s.
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1. letthemfall said...
How many went to university in that time? 5% or so I think, maybe less. It's not the baby boomers, it's the rich and privileged, some of whom are boomers, some of whom are rather younger, or older. About time we had an economy and society based on fairness, not luck or background.
2. mr g said...
@LTF
Good comments, I agree entirely.
3. mr g said...
I omitted to say that the "I want it and I want it now" ethos is rampant among younger people rather than the older generation.