Neil Boorman - It’s All Their Fault
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are the richest generation that ever lived.
DO YOUR PARENTS LOVE YOU? OF COURSE THEY DO. BUT IT HASNT STOPPED THEM ROBBING YOU BLIND
They might have given you the best start in life that they could. But they stopped short of providing for your future, or the future of your own children. They knew this problem was around the corner, and they had plenty of time and money to sort it out. But they chose not to. In fact, they chose to spend more money and use up greater resources than they had, knowing full well that the problem would be left for us their own children to sort out.
Its not just pensions. Look at all the material wealth that your parents have accumulated the houses, the cars, the holidays, the savings. Did you expect to have the same things as them when you were growing up? Unless youre a hedge fund manager in the City, you can kiss those dreams goodbye. Its us wholl be paying off their billions of pounds worth of Credit Crunch debt. And what about the environment? Weve been left with the bill for clearing that up too.
GENERATION DEBT
Every new generation is defined by the icons and events of its time. For Generation X, it was supposed to be Grunge; MTV and the Internet for Generations Y and Z. All that went the way of Woolworths on the day the Boomers took control. Forget about iPlayer or YouTube, the symbol for generations born after 1964 is the credit card, because each and every one of us is sitting on a mountain of debt, built up and handed down to us by our folks.
You dont need to read this book to know how tough it is to live a normal life these days. You are living with the reality every day. Everything is expensive and in short supply. Nothing comes easy. And its going to get worse. This manifesto will tell you what you can do about it.
Every baby in the UK is now born owing 22,500
his or her share of the 1.4 trillion Credit Crunch bailout. Added to which the average student graduates owing more than 20,000. Add all this together, and youre left with a generation owing more than 40,000 before theyve earned their first pay packet. Thats if you can get a job; there are 2.5 million people unemployed in the UK. One million of them are under 25 http://bit.ly/under25.
Pay packets, when you do finally find work, dont stretch beyond the absolute basics. First-time buyers need to earn an above-average salary to afford an ex-council flat, and you need a partner earning a full-time wage just to cover the food and heating. Its getting to the point where having children is a luxury.
Student debt is sold to us as an investment for our future, but that BA (Hons) certificate isnt worth the paper its printed on. The more companies streamline and outsource their manpower, the less chance we have of winning well-paid, long-term contracts. Forget about jobs for life, university graduates are settling for part-time shop work or volunteering abroad.
These days, its not unusual for 30-year-old professionals to go begging cap in hand to the Bank of Mum and Dad for bailouts, http://bit.ly/bankofmumanddad. And branches of the Hotel of Mum and Dad are springing up all the time providing beds for a generation that studies hard for grades and toils diligently at work but still cant afford to make their own way.
And where are the proprietors of Mum and Dad Plc, now that the Credit Crunch has killed the party? Theyre safely tucked away in gated communities, or on permanent vacation in their places in the sun www.aplaceinthesun.com, leaving us to fight over the expensive dregs. If we have one certainty in the future, its that well be working long past retirement age which incidentally is being raised to pay off the debts.
Heaven help the kids who are being born into this mess.
Go to http://bit.ly/debtoverseas to see how the exact same problem is kicking off overseas.
It was a different story when our parents were growing up. In fact, their lives sound like fairytales compared to ours. They fully expected to live a better life than their own folks. They drew decent wages from long-term jobs and received generous benefits from the welfare state. For them education was free and houses (not flats) were cheap and readily available. When prices boomed in the Eighties, they paid off their mortgages overnight. Suddenly flush with new money, rather than saving it sensibly, even working-class families were out buying new cars and colour TVs and taking holidays abroad. Mothers returned to work not just to cover the bills, but to improve the living standards of the family.
BLAME YOUR PARENTS
Those halcyon days are well and truly gone. Weve been lumbered with so much debt and the cost of lifes basics has shot up so high that were guaranteed never to live as easily again. And it hasnt happened by accident. The awful truth is that, as our parents have climbed the ladder of social mobility, they have kicked the rungs from beneath them and prevented us from following them.
But dont take my word for it, just ask yourself this: who brought an end to the free education that they enjoyed when they were young? Who voted for low taxes while drawing easy handouts from the state? Who bought cheap houses, sold them for a fortune and priced out first-time buyers? Who awarded themselves record salaries and shipped the rest of the work overseas? Who cashed in on the market boom, then expected the taxpayer to bail them out when it went bust? You know who.
The enormous financial debt weve been handed is from their overspending. Everything about todays self-obsessed modern culture (record rates of divorce, suicide and drug addiction) comes from their megalomania. And the environmental crisis, dangerously close to the point of no return, is a hangover from their overconsumption. None of this is news to our parents though. The alarm bells have been ringing for decades, but theyre world leaders at burying their heads in the sand.
Greedy? Selfish? Mummy and Daddy? It cant possibly be true? Here is what well-respected thinkers from across the political spectrum have to say:
TWENTYSOMETHINGS WILL BE LUMBERED WITH HIGHER LEVELS OF TAXATION IN THE FUTURE TO PAY FOR THE LONGER AND BETTER RETIREMENTS OF THE AGEING BABY-BOOMER GENERATION
THATS NOT FAIR,
SAYS RYAN SHORTHOUSE OF THE GUARDIAN.
With their children departed and the mortgage paid off, their spending power is greater than that of any other age group, says Melanie Phillips in the Daily Mail. They use it to pump up their lips and suck out their thighs, go trekking in Peru, and work out in the gym, eat organic food and irrigate their colons to cheat death and anticipate several more decades of looking after Me.
They wont be around to see the results, says George Monbiot in The Guardian, they were brought up in a period of technological optimism; they feel entitled, having worked all their lives, to fly or cruise to wherever they wish.
For too long the world has been run bya generation that was simply born lucky, says Sarah Vine in The Times (who is married to 43-year-old Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Michael Gove). Now the partys over, theyre not rolling up their sleeves either. Oh no, theyre outta here, babyIts left to us to clear up.
The boomers have poisoned the wells and ploughed salt into the fields, warns Bryan Appleyard in The Sunday Times. In the midst of their success and greed, the boomers forgotthat society is a contract with three interested parties: the dead, the living and the unborn. Their children are paying the price of their amnesia. For the moment, they seem resigned, but, soon enough, theyll want their world back.
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