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Originally posted by ConservativeJack
The only downside is that people who've saved their whole life are going to get wiped out.
Originally posted by Charity
Originally posted by ConservativeJack
The only downside is that people who've saved their whole life are going to get wiped out.
I'm sorry but that just isn't good enough.
I've saved my whole life, with good times helping me out through the bad, I've seen my shares & investments tank, I've seen the return on my savings dwindle to next to nothing & my private pension now has way less cash in the pot than the contributions I've paid in.
Meanwhile, a generation has grown up expecting something for nothing from the state, claiming social security benefits for years & paying nothing into the system at all, assuming they've ever worked a day in their lives. Sloth & inactivity seems to be rewarded in this great system of ours. Hard work & prudence, that oft quoted term, seems never to be rewarded.
Why bother working at all when everything you earn is taxed to the hilt and when most things you buy are taxed ? Why bother with anything tbh ?
There'll be a revolution if savings collapse. And heads will be on the block. Seriously.