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news On Fri, 01 Jul 2016 23:24:50 +0100, bert
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No benefit at all except to pay my care home fees eventually.
but they have paid *none* of the extra
NI charges.
Well they don't get in-work benefits.

Older people actually make a net contribution to the economy of
about
£58bn per year.

From what?

Their income stream, pensions investments etc.

Which is substantially less then working people.

But they have much lower costs too. particularly
when their house is fully owned etc.

But their taxes are less.

Irrelevant to what you said about net contribution to the ECONOMY.

How do they help the economy when they don't do anything?

They always do something, even if its only feed themselves
and use public transport etc and medical services etc.

But that's a lot less than younger working folk.

Anyway, stop thinking in terms of numbers on a spreadsheet. Money means
nothing. To contribute to a society, you do work, you create things, etc.

Nope, just consume, just like everyone else does.

So the above is ********: "Older people actually make a net
contribution
to the economy of about £58bn per year"

There is no 'so' involved.

What?

They don't work.

They don't need to do contribute by their spending.

These people are now the biggest cost on the NHS even if they
don't
contract Cancer. So who should pay the £200,000 cost of Cancer
treatment for for them ?. Their lifetimes tax and NI definately
doesn't
cover even a fraction of the cost.

Well mine has. Never been an inpatient, only an outpatient once.
Haven't
been to a doctor for years and probably only about5 times in a
lifetime. And on top of that I've paid for my own eye test and
prescriptions -until I got free test at 65.

Cannabis cures cancer.

Like hell it does. It actually causes lung cancer just like tobacco
does.

Wrong.

Nope.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...t-reveals.html

Just because that **** rag claims something...

In fact there is no rigorous scientific evidence that it does
anything
of
the sort.

http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/t...p/cannabis-pdq

Not a shred of rigorous scientific evidence there.

I've given you two links. A google search comes up with 1000s.

Just as true of aliens showing up in space ships and biting cow's bums.

But the cannabis ones are on legitimate sites, including government ones.

Not one with any rigorous scientific evidence in double
blind trials that show that cannabis cures cancer.

And funny how health services use it medicinally.

Not to cure cancer they don't.

We are still borrowing £75 Billion every year (down from £150
Billion a year in 2010). So that means todays pensioners and
parents are borrowing money from future generations, who don't
yet have the vote and may not even be born yet.

It only has to be paid back if the country you borrowed it from
has
more
nukes.

In the era of low interest rates about £78bn has been transferred
from
savers (mostly older people( to borrowers (mostly younger people)

Banks encourage borrowing, it's all their fault. What do you
think
made
half of them bankrupt?

That fool Brown deregulating them.

Banks should be private companies. If they fail, they should go
under
like anyone else.

That mentality produced the worst of the Great Depression
essentially because runs on banks will collapse the economy
in that situation.

That's their problem.

A great depression is a problem for almost everyone.

Wouldn't have bothered me if the bank I owed £11K went bust.

But would if the banks with all your savings in went bust.

I would never put much in one place.

Doesn't help when they all go bust because of a run on the banks.

A bank without enough money to hand out to people who have it in their
account? Oh dear.

That last is what happens with a great depression.

Mismanagement at the bank is what causes it.

Wrong.

Why?

That wasn't what caused the great depression.