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"But this is also the generation that has benefited from a very generous social security system: student loans for as long as they wanted, early retirement, severance pay, disability allowances for the slightest aches. These are all benefits we young people will not be able to enjoy, or only in a very slimmed-down form. But nobody ever asked our opinion."
"And even those young people who have joined a union have a hard time getting heard: many young members tried to argue for a raise in the pensions age, but often their voice was overruled by the older vote."
www.nrc.nl/internationa..._baby_boomers
another out of touch, far-right voice from the Netherlands. enjoy.
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Re: Footing the bill for the happiness of the baby boomers
Wed, November 4, 2009 - 6:07 AMFrom the Article:
"Where were the young people when all this was being decided? For most of us the whole debate felt like getting a call from a telemarketer offering a funeral policy: ridiculous, irrelevant, not a priority. We have just started our professional lives, and we are still convinced we are going to have such satisfying careers that we wouldn't dream of retiring at 65.
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Contrary to what may people have said, young people are involved with politics. We blog and twitter about every issue under the sun: the cost of higher education, the future of the public broadcasting system, the protests in Iran... But the state pension age is not a popular topic. The group 'AOWnaar67' (Raise state pension age to 67) on the popular social networking site Hyves has only ten members, and nobody has left a message on the forum yet. "
It sounds like the children who feel so burdened by all those baby boomers were out screwing, doping, swapping sexes, and generally fucking around when the political machine called them to the table.
They should have come.
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Re: Footing the bill for the happiness of the baby boomers
Wed, November 4, 2009 - 7:23 PM
factor in the population bulge that affords boomers so much power at the ballot box. and the fact that unions, corporations and government are dominated by boomers. forty and unders are fucked with no real hope for change. it's just too bad that the boomers control the means of propaganda. which means lots of youngsters are brainwashed into thinking the money they're throwing at government and unions is going to benefit them. they're just guaranteeing the beast survives long enough to pay off the insane perks the boomers gave themselves.
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