Ageism
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Maybe it is my age but i have detected rising ageist attitudes. During the pandemic, the care home scandals in several countries signalled that the elderly were expendable.
Before then it was the triple-locked pensions which drew the media’s attention, preferential treatment for the OAPs with the younger generation said to be carrying the cost.
Another article caught my eye
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/apr/24/old-get-the-benefits-tories-the-election-wins
in 2018-19, the government spent “on average £14,660 on each child, £10,180 on each working-age adult, and £20,790 on each pensioner” and that the gap in per capita spending on children and pensioners more than doubled over the previous 20 years…It was a clever policy for a man obsessed with maximising the Tory vote.
Yup…an overly generous government buying the votes of the old.
£900m a year spent subsidising bus and train travel for the old and disabled, the foundation calculates 88% is claimed by the old, and a growing health bill before the pandemic was also disproportionately accounted for by outpatient appointments for the over-60s. In one area, mental health, the foundation finds per capita spending on outpatient treatment for pensioners more than tripled between 2011–12 and 2018–19, whereas spending on children’s mental health rose by only 5.6%.
What’s the remedy, good old fashioned means testing, of course.
Divide and rule the generations
The decline in the employment rate for the over-50s has been twice as big as for those aged between 25 and 49 and after losing work, older workers take the longest to return.
Another attack on the pensions and aged.
First, let me declare I have no horse in this race. My state pension is frozen and does not rise each year.
But over the years, there has been a sustained onslaught upon the so-called ‘privileged’ status of OAPs with their triple-locked pensions.
The Guardian carries yet another article designed to incite a divisive generation war.
Doubts about the 8% rise due to pensioners.
But longer life expectancy, and particularly healthy life expectancy, have increased dramatically over the last half-century, and the societal definition of “old” has not kept up, In the 19th century, a country needed youth to operate its factories, consume what they churned out and constitute a fighting force in times of war. That became less true over the 20th century, and in the 21st it bears very little relation to reality. More and more of the jobs that require stamina and strength are done by machines, while a nation’s products are consumed globally and there’s no evidence that young workers are any more productive than older ones today we can expect to be working longer into our senior years.
Owen Jones defends the old
Dave Douglass, former miner militant, on how his occupational pension scheme is being robbed.
https://www.weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1357/great-pension-robbery/
Yet another sign that the State is intending to deprive the elderly of benefits
Two-thirds of the 3.7 million 60- to 65-year-olds in the UK face the threat of their free NHS prescriptions being removed despite half that age group having chronic and multiple ailments
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