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Re: The British National Party
This is a bit off the topic, but it seems to me that by importing younger workers to pay for the pensions of the old you are only postponing the problem. Eventually all those young workers you brought in will retire, and also burden the pension system. If you solve that problem by again importing more workers, the cycle repeats. Evenually there just isn't any room left to bring in new people. Then what do you do?
It would be far more sensible to encourage more self-reliance wrt saving for retirement. If government pensions were phased out and replaced with individual savings then aging populations would surely be less of a problem.
Originally posted by Whaleboy
One must also consider the economic implications of the BNP’s fallacious proposal. Britain, like much of the West in the post-modern era is afflicted by falling birth rates. The “baby-boomers” of the interwar and 1940’s era are retiring and require state support for survival. As a nation, Britain is aging, and at this rate it will reach a point where those in work will be unable to sustain the retired through social security and healthcare costs without drastic increases in tax, which will cause the economy to implode. However, this nation is blessed by an influx of young, able bodied and often well educated immigrants and asylum seekers. This is a terrific economic opportunity, for if they were allowed to work, the wealth generated would help to fuel the economy, and the taxes raised would make it easier for the government to support the grey population. This does beg the question of space, which though sidetracking somewhat from the argument, is the authors opinion that assuming efficient and sensible housing policies, Britain is by no means approaching saturation point.
One must also consider the economic implications of the BNP’s fallacious proposal. Britain, like much of the West in the post-modern era is afflicted by falling birth rates. The “baby-boomers” of the interwar and 1940’s era are retiring and require state support for survival. As a nation, Britain is aging, and at this rate it will reach a point where those in work will be unable to sustain the retired through social security and healthcare costs without drastic increases in tax, which will cause the economy to implode. However, this nation is blessed by an influx of young, able bodied and often well educated immigrants and asylum seekers. This is a terrific economic opportunity, for if they were allowed to work, the wealth generated would help to fuel the economy, and the taxes raised would make it easier for the government to support the grey population. This does beg the question of space, which though sidetracking somewhat from the argument, is the authors opinion that assuming efficient and sensible housing policies, Britain is by no means approaching saturation point.
It would be far more sensible to encourage more self-reliance wrt saving for retirement. If government pensions were phased out and replaced with individual savings then aging populations would surely be less of a problem.
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