AIBU to think the baby Boomers should lay of the sauce?

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The Alcohol Concern report found the cost of hospital admissions linked to heavy drinking 55 to 74-year-olds in 2010-11 was more than £825m, that is a staggering 10 times the cost of treating younger people.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19913431

Not only have the baby boomers seen in their life time greater social mobility, better pension provision, an NHS that wasn't at all times rationed, an education system that offered them Grammar schools, unions that fought for their workers rights and lived through the 60's (wish I had been there) they now claim non-means tested benefits, take up 2/5ths of the welfare bill and cripple the NHS with their partying alcohol swigging lifestyle whilst 1-3 children in the UK live in poverty.

I think if they drink loads they'll die earlier and we won't have to pay for their care in old age so we should be encouraging them onto the fags and booze.

Those who live healthy lifestyles burden the health service for longer and need care for longer. It is far more cost effective for them to die early of alcohol or tobacco related disease. We should encourage this from a fiscal point of view.

Plus I like getting drunk with my folks, it's fun. And they seem to enjoy it too.

I don't need any encouragement Bridget

I like your post - a lot.

Much more fun than 'Well, hopefully they'll die off and not live as long as the current generation of pensioners are.' because it's encouraging me to invest in my lack of future

Yeah, I agree with Bridget: encouraging pensioners to drink as much as possible will save money in the long term. Well, short-to-medium term, actually. To save money in the long term, I think we're probably duty bound to drink too much ourselves.

Well I guess lots more tax could be collected if we encourage them.

I think the younger age groups need to 'lay off the sauce' TBH, I can see some major health issues in the years ahead.
Well done on lower rates of smoking though, younger people. A massive improvement there.

Exactly, it makes economic sense and I will get to inherit all their money sooner

I wonder if we could shrink the deficit if we get them hooked on 40 cigarettes a day to supplement their boozing. Someone needs to have a word with Georgie Peorgie.

Many baby bloomers have been drinking hard for 40 years. It's no wonder there is more liver failure in this age group than in people under 25 who have only been drinking for 5 years or so! Duh!

So it's the baby boomers that have set a poor example to the rest of society. We should add that to the list of their misdemeanours. Do you think it was all the social mobility that did it? you know gin at elevensies rather than just a pint of stout on a Saturday.

Also incidentally, this is good for child poverty. Their grandparents will get so shitfaced they go drunk online shopping and buy them massive christmas presents. Or this may just be my family

I think gin at elevenses is a bit before the baby boomer generation.
The baby boomers were teenagers in the 60s and 70s. They brought you equal ops and gay rights.

I was a 70's teenager and I have never smoked, drank or taken illegal drugs.

Actually, it was a pretty boring time. But very sweet and innocent.

I wasn't a goody two shoes, I just never had the inclination to try all these things.

I was a 70s teenager. Smoked, drank and took illegal drugs.
It was an exciting time. Full of promise and hope.

What age did you wait to try them all Coral?

Coralanne I have done the lot, and continue to do the booze. Next year I will get free prescriptions as a reward for all my efforts. I may well need them.

Oh ffs! I hope,when I,am in my 60s I can enjoy,myself and not worry about people judging me.

bridget I like your implied idea of supplying booze on the NHS to kill people off. Could you write to the Health Secretary on my behalf please? Maybe get a petition together? Start a charity?
Red wine is my preferred tipple.

alcofrolic it's George fucking Osborne, he'll give you Windowlene and you'll like it.

See this is what makes me cross. In the 40s they had gin at elevenses, in the 50s they had valium, in the 60s they had LSD, in the 80s they had cocaine, in the 90s we had ecstasy.

And what do the poor fuckers who are young these days get? Bath salts, they're snorting fucking bathsalts.

Fuck the baby boomers drinking we need to find something fun for the young people to do.

Agent I never actually did try them.[embarrassed]

A lot of people thought I had because I was a bit "out there"

Loved going to rock concerts and raging with the best of them.

Consequently, I did become the designated driver most of the time.

Bridget that seems to be the problem. They don't want anyone to do anything fun for fear it will make them sick! Then they moan we are living too long..gahh!

Redbindy I had lots of friends who partied with the best of them.

Surprisingly enough, I was never judged because I stuck to the mineral water

Rictus Georgie needs a spot of that himself. Might make his policies random thoughts more transparent.