Park Life 70 Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 (edited) "But it's not just Italy, Spain and Japan that face eye-watering increases in their elderly populations. China is the world's growth engine – yet it is also one of the fastest-ageing countries in the world, as its fertility rate has been below replacement level since 1991. Within a decade, its labour force will begin to shrink, a geopolitical change which the US authors of this report note will start reducing China's basic advantage in the global economy – cheap labour. In Britain, the most striking fact to emerge from this report is how relatively benign the pace of change will be. Indeed, the report suggests that our "total dependency ratio" – which adds together children and pensioners – will actually fall between now and 2020 to the lowest of any big European nation. It will accelerate rapidly after that, but will still remain markedly below our (ageing) continental cousins. It's partly because in Britain, longevity lags behind that of France and Italy. But it's also factors such as high net immigration and relatively high fertility. Britain's population will continue to rise through to 2040, approaching 65 million, while Germany declines from 82 million to 77 million, and Italy from 58 million to 53 million. Britain also saves more, a puzzling statistic given our propensity to splurge on debt as well. We hold private pension balances equal to more than two-thirds of our GDP, second only to the US. We also have one of the least generous welfare systems for the elderly – with pensioners retiring on incomes under half the level they had in employment, compared with 89% in Italy." Feel the fear but do it anyway. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/2...pulation-growth Edited July 21, 2009 by Park Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniffer 0 Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Least generous for the elderly. Mother fucking godsend for immigrants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentAxeman 82 Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 what a load of bollocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 26272 Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Least generous for the elderly. Mother fucking godsend for immigrants the dole walling cunts who have no interest in finding a job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stevie Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 Least generous for the elderly. Mother fucking godsend for immigrants. Exactly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14030 Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 That's still the most rubbish bit of Photoshopping ever committed to file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted July 21, 2009 Author Share Posted July 21, 2009 People need to say what they really think for this thread to kick off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charvski 0 Posted July 21, 2009 Share Posted July 21, 2009 i think it is bollocks that we don't support elderly people so well in this country. maybe if we could find a happy medium of weeding out the sad cunts who will never get a job, or ever want to get a job, and cut their money down then give what you save on the wasters to give to old people. the problem is, maybe some old people never worked all their life and were wasters, or there are people who are unemployed right now who are trying to get a job desperately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 People need to say what they really think for this thread to kick off. I think the article makes the perfectly valid point that working age immigrants contribute to the welfare bucket to a degree that they don't in other countries and people responding here won't have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 0 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 In Italy, peeople retire on 89% of their income!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 (edited) In Italy, peeople retire on 89% of their income!! Earn less to start with though and probably don't save much. At a guess anyway. Doesn't sound too bad though, come to think of it. Especially when you throw in the Mediterranean lifestyle. High life expectancy too. Edited July 22, 2009 by alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 17743 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 The subtitle of the thread makes the assumption immigrants are predominantly black. Is this even true? Immigration is an important issue but imo there are much more pressing issues regarding our own 'indiginous' population. At least in the North East. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 Who gives a fuck man? This has been done to death on here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 30m in the UK. Sir David agrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 30m in the UK. Sir David agrees. Understandable that a bloke who gets hate mail for not crediting God for the nature on display in his shows advocates a cull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 30m in the UK. Sir David agrees. Understandable that a bloke who gets hate mail for not crediting God for the nature on display in his shows advocates a cull. No great surprise you think the solution is a cull, Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted July 22, 2009 Share Posted July 22, 2009 30m in the UK. Sir David agrees. Understandable that a bloke who gets hate mail for not crediting God for the nature on display in his shows advocates a cull. No great surprise you think the solution is a cull, Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 70 Posted July 23, 2009 Author Share Posted July 23, 2009 When is this fukin cull happenning?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fop 1 Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 When is this fukin cull happenning?? Give him time, genocide is not so easy to organise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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