What old age, what retirement?

• In
• gripes
• lack of responsibility

One in four ‘fails to save money’.

I’m not surprised. There is something fundamentally incompatible with encouraging a commercial / business / retail free-for-all and then also propping people up with ‘free’ health care*, unemployment benefits, and so on.

You know what it says to me?

Spend all you damn like, do anything you want, we’ll be there to pick up the pieces.

This drives me mad. Is it any wonder young adults and children (and many supposedly mature and responsible adults) are careering completely out of control? No one thinks they’re accountable for anything, even their own lives (retirement, pension, future, destiny).

* Healthcare in this country is most definitely not free. I for one would prefer to be able to choose where, when, and how my healthcare is provided, and pay for it directly.