On 20 Mar, 12:37, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 10:57:08 +0000, Huge wrote:
On 2013-03-20, Alexander Lamaison wrote:
Huge writes:

On 2013-03-19, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:25:01 +0000, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

In article , Jethro_uk
writes

Of course those children you object to subsidising might say in the
future "why should we pay for that old ****ers pensions ....."

Paying for my own pension, thanks, not relying on the state to
provide anything for me.

With all due respect, the idea that any of us "pays our way" is a
fiction.

If none of us pay our way, who's paying for everything?

No one. *That's what this whole 'debt' thing you may have heard about
is.

I think you'll find that some of us most definitely *are* paying our
way. According to the IFS's calculator, our household pays some £27K per
annum more than we get out.

One view of the current economic situation might be that successive
generations have *over the course of their lives* taken more than they
have given.

A more accurate view might be that *some members* of successive
generations have taken more have given.

It's meaningless to point to a snapshot in time as if it
means anything.

Just as meaningles to try to deny that some individuals undoubtedly do
pay their own way. I class myself as one of them.

MBQ