The Big Questions

[Jan Rosser]

Nicky Campbell's programme this morning is asking the question are today's young being expected to pay too much for the baby boomers? I shall set the Sky+ box to record - the advantage being i can skip through the really annoying bits I wonder if DK will be making a "guest appearance"

[paultheeagle]

A quick and simple answer to that question...........Yes.

[Dark Knight]

Nice to know that I am not alone in thinking the BB's are draining the economy

ha ha ha

[Kendhni]

Nicky Campbell's programme this morning is asking the question are today's young being expected to pay too much for the baby boomers? I shall set the Sky+ box to record - the advantage being i can skip through the really annoying bits I wonder if DK will be making a "guest appearance"

It's nice to see our media are finally catching up .. this topic has been discussed on chatboards for well over a decade now and still nothing gets done. I remember joining MSE to join in a discussion on this topic .. that must have been in 2003/2004.
BY the time the gears of our public sector get churning the government will maybe start taking notice by the middle of the next decade ... as the riots and public rebellion starts.

The big issue today though is that the government has no money to do anything about it .. so it is getting put on the back boiler, whereas what they should be doing is immediately addressing some of the core issues that are exponentially making the problem worse. According to one article I read (not verified) this country, when it was an empire, was basically run by 4000 civil servants without computers .. now it is a country it requires more than 400,000 civil servants to administer it ... chock'd full of dead wood.