Tony Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Has there ever been a younger generation who wanted the Moon on a stick without making an effort more than the present one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 The boomers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newcrim Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Real opportunities for the young are less available than they have been for many generations. We have removed any real hope that they may have had to a place of their own. It was removed in the Thatcher era. Older generations took that for granted as social housing was readily available. That is a massive option to take away from our youngsters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gabby Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Not until the next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlittlepup Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 The boomers? Exactly, free university education, prescriptions, cheap plentiful houses, full employment, massive social mobility, low taxes, great gold plated pensions. All of which they have used their power to comprehensively deny the younger generations. They took all the good stuff then pulled the ladder up behind them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlittlepup Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Real opportunities for the young are less available than they have been for many generations. We have removed any real hope that they may have had to a place of their own. It was removed in the Thatcher era. Older generations took that for granted as social housing was readily available. That is a massive option to take away from our youngsters. The grant and free university education stayed in place throughout the Thatcher period and were abolished by Labour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newcrim Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 The grant and free university education stayed in place throughout the Thatcher period and were abolished by Labour. There you go then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeMaquis Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 Has there ever been a younger generation who wanted the Moon on a stick without making an effort more than the present one? In the 60s people who'd lived through WW2 looked at hippies dropping acid and dancing about with flowers their hair and thought god help us if there's a war. Now these ex-hippies having had the best of times are moaning about young people today wanting everything to fall into their lap without taking responsibility for anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denlin Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 In the 60s people who'd lived through WW2 looked at hippies dropping acid and dancing about with flowers their hair and thought god help us if there's a war. Now these ex-hippies having had the best of times are moaning about young people today wanting everything to fall into their lap without taking responsibility for anything. The hippy generation was peace loving and didn't go round battering defenceless old people because they refused to give them their pension money, so I hardly think you can compare the two. I was a teenager in the sixties and this lot are nothing like we were:love::love: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_W Posted September 23, 2011 Share Posted September 23, 2011 The op does have a point, things have changed over the years, more young people (and of course a lot of their parents) expect good GCSE results, a university education, and a good career, we know that's not guaranteed, but when I left school in the 1970s school leavers were still heading for the factories and the pits. Things have taken a turn for the worse economy wise over the last couple of years so the expectations of the young people leaving college, school and university will take a reality check until things improve. Things like this have happened to previous generations too, but we should all be grateful we have not been conscripted into a World War like our Grandparents were ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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