tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post6220402671206100853..comments2024-03-19T22:42:04.062+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: “Die Boomers, Die!” – A Dispatch From The Future.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-59352593855588594792016-12-06T18:40:49.180+13:002016-12-06T18:40:49.180+13:00In the mid 1980s, a short story was published in N...In the mid 1980s, a short story was published in New Zealand Listener. It was titled, Overstayers. Story covered parallel theme. The young turn on the old people in random murders and what we would now call home invasions. The old people then were the war generation, not the baby boomers. Both my mother and I thought the story was trying also to tell us something else. New Zealand history. Young people mostly do today identify with ghetto culture. <br /><br />Just yesterday in Mount Wellington, two young men attacked two elderly women in their home and knocked a nonagenarian unconscious. They stole their shopping bag.llloydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08100152502317219018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-77673828947974552542016-12-05T20:01:20.053+13:002016-12-05T20:01:20.053+13:00I think, blame the boomer comes from the property ...I think, blame the boomer comes from the property investment fraternity:<br /><br />"Tonight, a pumped de Roos tells his audience that he wants people to invest in property and write to him 12 months down the track and tell him they’ve “made one million or three million, or you’ve got 16 properties, or we’re taking six months off because our cash flow now exceeds our outflow!” He says, “I don’t know any other activity where the rewards are so huge. If you want to invest a million dollars in the sharemarket, you need a million dollars. If you want to invest a million in real estate, you only need $100,000.”<br /><br />You can buy one property, get it revalued, use the equity to buy another property and then buy another and another. “And you do it all with OPM. Other people’s money. OPM. It’s like being high on drugs!” What’s more, the wonder of depreciation claims on the building and contents means “the government subsidises your investment! It’s delightful!”"<br />House of the Rising Sum -Pamela Stirling Listener.<br />.......<br />This phenomena can't have escaped anyone 50's and above. There used to be two square meters of "How to make money in Realestate" books in book shops, with some so rich and so many so poor it is <i>blame the boomer</i>. Boomers with property portfolios don't give it to boomers they give it too their millennial progeny.<br /><br />What socialists don't like to admit is that property prices and immigration are joined at the hip, so let's blame (white) baby boomers.<br />jhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-55776317840924951362016-12-05T19:06:11.197+13:002016-12-05T19:06:11.197+13:00I saw the 1985 film Cocoon as a popular film with ...I saw the 1985 film Cocoon as a popular film with an interesting story.<br />Then I thought more about it. The story is that an old-age village is next to a deserted home with nice swimming pool. Some sneak over and swim but when the secret is out that the water is rejuvenating, they all rush over for a swim. This drains the life force from some alien pods that have been resting there which then cannot return to their planet.<br /><br />Their position in the ship is offered to the old people on the flight to the other planet where they will never age further. Among those who decide to go are grandparents of David whose mother is a solo Mum. They are prepared to go away to this distant planet although their grandson is devoted to them. He tries to stow away on the boat taking them away but is told he must stay with his mother, though her parents don't intend to. In the end he has to jump into the sea and wait for a nearby boat to pick him up.<br /><br />I thought it was a good analogy for today's situation where the older people of means enjoy life choosing a lazy time with their own pursuits, or taking up a little charity work to suit themselves and be a social outing. Not much concern for the younger generation who are hounded from pillar to post if they haven't got a job. and caring for children doesn't count.greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-61708738457393681512016-12-05T13:26:37.803+13:002016-12-05T13:26:37.803+13:00Well, whatever the subject of this column John Key...Well, whatever the subject of this column John Key has just resigned. Now that must be a bit of a boost for Labour, because Bill English isn't nearly as Teflon as Key. And neither is anyone else they might put in. Most of them seem like talentless buggers at the moment I must confess. Unfortunately Labour seems much the same, but if they can get it together this should be the time to go on the offensive perhaps.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-21225368019444071642016-12-05T13:05:45.163+13:002016-12-05T13:05:45.163+13:00What else can be suggested to prevent and reverse ...What else can be suggested to prevent and reverse movement towards this sort of scenario to become reality, than a systematic policy drive towards the visionary Ownership Society concept, defined by at least a minimally meaningful level of personal (retirement) capital ownership by all citizens eventually ?<br /><br />As this is achievable (or not?) - and we (in NZ) are practically more than half-way there already, but without any remarkable publicity on it so far - does it not deserve serious discussion on its desirability, achievability, or nonsense?<br /><br />And would not Bowalley Road contributors be eminently capable of doing just that ? Jens Mederhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10371374720779147859noreply@blogger.com