Bernard is NOT making people feel more divided. People like me who do not own property feel incredibly MARGINALIZED by the status quo. People’s lives are even put in danger by it. Please don’t criticize Bernard for refusing to ignore this fact.
Bernard is NOT making people feel more divided. People like me who do not own property feel incredibly MARGINALIZED by the status quo. People’s lives are even put in danger by it. Please don’t criticize Bernard for refusing to ignore this fact.
I think you may have missed my point JAL. My kids and all their generation are also in your position and I cannot do anything about it but make sure they inherit their share of the family home. Yes, lack of hope can be dangerous. I have lost a daughter to suicide. My husband has family trusts and our finances are separate as we married late. I find political parties that insist on the status quo in order to keep wealth in a certain section of society, abhorrent, just as Bernard does. I support Bernard because he is doing good work. What he is also doing though, and I have a little dig at him from time to time in good humour - is erring on the side of labelling people into silos. So when I say I am 70, that makes me a boomer, which is a label imposed on people who have done well, at the expense of other sections of society, and live in leafy suburbs. I haven't been one of them, due to various states like single parenthood, in the days when a woman bringing up a family alone was a bit of a target and no-one would lend on a mortgage until I got some private money at 19%. I worked shifts for years, but never really got ahead like many of my boomer age-mates. There are others like me out there. Adversity strengthens one. I am now at the age where I can give back, so my pension is spent on several charities and my grand children's orthodontist bills!
I agree with your point about labeling people into silos. It’s not about age and it’s not about race, even though it appears these are two significant factors dividing Kiwis to either side of our Great Housing Divide. Old and young, winners and losers of the status quo, we all need to demand our political leaders prioritize everyone being able to live in a home of some sort over protecting our Great Housing Divide, which is now a wall so high that we cannot even hear people from the other side, let alone see each other. Sometimes it takes words like “Boomer” and “f*ck” to get people’s attention.
Bernard is NOT making people feel more divided. People like me who do not own property feel incredibly MARGINALIZED by the status quo. People’s lives are even put in danger by it. Please don’t criticize Bernard for refusing to ignore this fact.
I think you may have missed my point JAL. My kids and all their generation are also in your position and I cannot do anything about it but make sure they inherit their share of the family home. Yes, lack of hope can be dangerous. I have lost a daughter to suicide. My husband has family trusts and our finances are separate as we married late. I find political parties that insist on the status quo in order to keep wealth in a certain section of society, abhorrent, just as Bernard does. I support Bernard because he is doing good work. What he is also doing though, and I have a little dig at him from time to time in good humour - is erring on the side of labelling people into silos. So when I say I am 70, that makes me a boomer, which is a label imposed on people who have done well, at the expense of other sections of society, and live in leafy suburbs. I haven't been one of them, due to various states like single parenthood, in the days when a woman bringing up a family alone was a bit of a target and no-one would lend on a mortgage until I got some private money at 19%. I worked shifts for years, but never really got ahead like many of my boomer age-mates. There are others like me out there. Adversity strengthens one. I am now at the age where I can give back, so my pension is spent on several charities and my grand children's orthodontist bills!
I agree with your point about labeling people into silos. It’s not about age and it’s not about race, even though it appears these are two significant factors dividing Kiwis to either side of our Great Housing Divide. Old and young, winners and losers of the status quo, we all need to demand our political leaders prioritize everyone being able to live in a home of some sort over protecting our Great Housing Divide, which is now a wall so high that we cannot even hear people from the other side, let alone see each other. Sometimes it takes words like “Boomer” and “f*ck” to get people’s attention.
Right on.