It appears the Scottish men talked a good game before the vote, but when it came down to it they pussied out and voted no. No wonder Scottish men wear skirts. The old fogies (55 years old and up) voted overwhelmingly against independence. They like their monthly welfare checks and care not for future generations. A generational war is coming. The old fogies are dying out and the young will prevail. It’s coming.
If there is a ‘next vote’……….if so, between now and that time those folks are going to have some serious generational issues in their homes, offices, and pubs. Just like here, the older folks just take and expect others to make.
Fuck boomers and silents that a) haven’t prepared for their elder years and/or b) cash those checks and c) act like they’re due and aren’t the problem while feigning concern for the rest.
Scotland vote: just kicking disaster down the road?
By Sara Sjolin
Published: Sept 19, 2014 10:49 a.m. ET
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — If at first you don’t secede, try and try again.
Scotland may have failed at getting its independence this time around, but a future referendum on a separate Scottish state shouldn’t be ruled out. For the first time in Scotland, the 16-and 17-year olds were given a chance to vote in Thursday’s poll and the teenagers spoke with one clear voice: independence. According to a snap poll by Lord Ashcroft, 71% of the below 18-year-old voters were in favor of breaking away from the more than 300-year old United Kingdom, seen as already laying the groundwork for a second referendum.
“The only age group in Scotland that has consistently supported the ‘no’ side is the over-65s. As these people die and the pro-independence youth cohort grows, pressure for another poll may increase,” said Marshall Gittler, head of global FX strategy at IronFX, in a note.
He also pointed to Quebec in Canada, where the first “no” to independence in 1980 was followed by a fresh poll 15 years later. The pro-Canada camp won by a narrow margin.
“That possibility might give the pound some risk premium, although to be fair, financial markets in general have notoriously short memories,” Gittler said.
Scotland’s first minister and leader of the pro-independence campaign, Alex Salmond, pledged ahead of the ballot that another vote would not be held for a “generation” if the ‘no’ side won. However, in his concession speech, Salmond hinted that a second poll could be on the cards eventually, according to British media.
“Scotland has by a majority decided not, at this stage, to become an independent country,” he said.
Struck a nerve I see. Maybe some ‘restless leg syndrome’ meds will help. God knows a little personal honesty ain’t workin’.
Hey – fuck you Tommy. Us Boomers paid / are paying the bulk of the taxes. Why shouldn’t I collect SS that I paid into for 50 yrs? On top of that, I’m still working, and I have to pay taxes on the SS – that I paid in taxable wages.
Why do Scott’s Men wear kilts?
Cause the sheep can hear the zippers.
That’s right Dutchman, you’ve earned it. Just keep saying it over and over you retard. Then, drink a few bottles of courage and check the math and let me know how that works out. Haven’t you figured it out? Anyone younger than you is getting an increasingly larger cock up his/her ass. Unless you had to support a sick parent or whatever, you should have been done by now. Its doubtful most of you love your careers enough to show up everyday for the intrinsic warm fuzzy feeling you get. You sound like my Dad (a silent), who thinks he’s got some God given right to get an income stream from Janet. Delusional……
If double digit fucking returns in your peak earning years didn’t set you up for life, its pretty safe to say you made a vocational error at the least (don’t feel bad though, most of us have). Seriously, if there was any place on the planet to be, it was a US male boomer, the older the better. If you couldn’t manage to put together a serious nut out of those perfect conditions – you were the guy who could fuck up a wet dream. So right back at’cha dipshit….fuck you.
Look Tommy – I didn’t set this system up. I earned and paid for my two STEM degrees. I make a very good living – but I work for it. I’m a computer scientist, and without guy’s like me you wouldn’t have your iShit stuff, or broadband, or the 4GL – that GenXer’s can’t seem to live without.
” Anyone younger than you is getting an increasingly larger cock up his/her ass” – Many are getting it up the ass (except for the FSA, illegals, niggers, etc.) – not just you. Don’t you see the gubmint is broken, a farce. The shitty FICA set-up by FDR, and then the shitty Congress spent all the money in the SS trust fund, and replaced it with IOU’s – which will be redeemed by Janet printing more money out of thin air.
“who thinks he’s got some God given right to get an income stream from Janet.” What the hell – the HNIC has got you $6 trillion more in debt, and Janet has been printing $85 billion a month – for a couple of years, and held interest rates at 0%. And all this money goes to the TBTF banks, and inflates a stock market bubble. Why in the hell shouldn’t us people who paid the FICA get what we are lawfully entitled to.
Tommy, what do you do? Work at Starbucks? Taco Bell? Collect aluminum cans? What’s you contribution to society?
Trucking, warehousing, and shipping. Went (and graduated) to college, followed the rules, blah, blah, blah. I know the system is fucked and the boomers aren’t the sole problem. I just like reminding boomers and silents, but especially boomers, that their generation is the most fucked up of them all. Just don’t tell me you’ve earned it…..if you did, it wouldn’t be about to end. Its like the saying, ‘born on third base and he thinks he hit a triple’.
As far as you gadgets go, stick ’em up your ass. I hate all of that shit. And its the millenials that can’t get along without your products…….and you as well (gotta have a customer). Don’t know why you think the Xer’s are the drivers of your world. Some maybe, but your spawn is your customer.
I like to kick the hornet’s nest on Friday’s. You narcissistic boomers are always an easy mark with your fragile thin skinned egos and such. So, I kick it. And here you are. As much as the other stuff pisses me off, I really don’t care. It’s when its lorded over me, rubbed in my face, and defended as earned – when I know the real drivers of this bullshit, yet reminded by a society that will never pay me a cent to accept it or else. So its a fucking tax to me, and a benefit to you…..and you start defending it. You ask me to get your take……do you see ours. To get your ‘fair share’ everyone else has to take it up the ass. By defending it, you’re telling me to quit bitching and submit – pay in fucker, and then some more. I can’t even prepare for my own family and retirement, but I’ve got to carry your load too. Fuck you I say. Mid 1940’s there were 45 workers for every retiree. Now its 2.5 and after the gov’t union fuckwads, its 1.6……..why, I can’t see how this might make people on the wrong end of that demographic a bit angry – but, you’ve got yours…..right? When she goes, I already know I’m totally fucked. I’m betting the realization for your lot will prove much more emotional than anything I can say here. Maybe not you Dutchman, but your generation.
There, I feel better. Works every time.
“Mid 1940′s there were 45 workers for every retiree. Now its 2.5 and after the gov’t union fuckwads, its 1.6……..”
The ‘inverted pyramid’ model.
Sometimes I think this is why the HNIC wants all these illegal Spics. Even if they earn shit wages, enough of them will generate some revenue. While the white people stop having children, and the Spics, who don’t have shit, won’t expect as much.
Meanwhile, the blacks are pissed because they’ve become a foregone concern while the beaners are the new precious ones to the politicians…….makes me belly laugh. And you’re spot on, the responsible people will act responsibly – not having kids you can’t afford means, well – no kids. Middle class is fucked – its only a matter of time before the jaws of the vise close in and you, me, him and that guy over there are all on the gubmint program. When we’re near that point I’m scared. At that point they are done squeezing. Done playing one of the other. Done with ‘providing’. Once they’ve got you they don’t need you and when their chief/indian ratio gets outta whack is when this cat is nervous.
FUHHHHHREEEEEDUHHHH…. what’s that?…. sorry…. my mistake….
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