'I am part of the most selfish generation in history and we should be ashamed of our legacy,' says Jeremy Paxman

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  As it’s revealed today’s young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents, the Newsnight presenter says he and his fellow Baby-Boomers have bequeathed little worth celebrating...

A few years ago, an American author wrote a book about the men and women who endured the Depression and then fought in World War II. He testified to their courage, vision and resilience by calling his book The Greatest Generation.

If anyone attempted to name their children — those born between about 1945 and 1965 — the so-called Baby-Boomers, they might consider calling them The Worst Generation.

It is now received wisdom that today’s young people may be the first generation in modern history to expect to be poorer than their parents.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2055497/JEREMY-PAXMAN-Baby-Boomers-selfish-generation-history.html

I can do no better than quote one of the comments to Paxman's article:

"You speak for yourself Paxman you patronising git. Some of us have had to work for a living. When you were a lotus eater in 1972 I was twenty eight and had been paying tax from the age of sixteen in 1962. I am a 1946 baby boomer and you have people like me to thank for your life of privilage at university. The possibility of further education was for me and people like me a pipe dream, there were too many of us. Stop wallowing in guilt and self pity Paxman and grow up, you don't speak for me, we live in different countries."

It's the usual middle class guilt trip.

Here's another quote....

Jeremy Paxman has it spot on. Although I was VERY lucky and grateful to go to university, I did not walk in to a well paid job and I was not the only one amongst my generation in that position. My parent's generation may not have been able to go to university but they could walk in to any job they wanted. I have worked my way up the jobs and property ladder without help from my parents apart from the deposit on my first house with my boyfriend which I had to pay back to my mother. Now she is 60 and retired and whinges because she is bored when I will never be able to retire at 60, if at all! She also expects me to drop everything for her whenever she clicks her fingers when I am a working mum! This continually appears to be a characteristic of the Baby Boomer generation. They are used to the world revolving around them and get very upset if this does not continue to be the case!

When you were a lotus eater in 1972 I was twenty eight and had been paying tax from the age of sixteen in 1962.

This just takes the cake!

I can do no better than quote one of the comments to Paxman's article:

"You speak for yourself Paxman you patronising git. Some of us have had to work for a living. When you were a lotus eater in 1972 I was twenty eight and had been paying tax from the age of sixteen in 1962. I am a 1946 baby boomer and you have people like me to thank for your life of privilage at university. The possibility of further education was for me and people like me a pipe dream, there were too many of us. Stop wallowing in guilt and self pity Paxman and grow up, you don't speak for me, we live in different countries."

It's the usual middle class guilt trip.

It's just jealousy... f### 'em.

Here's another quote....

Jeremy Paxman has it spot on. Although I was VERY lucky and grateful to go to university, I did not walk in to a well paid job and I was not the only one amongst my generation in that position. My parent's generation may not have been able to go to university but they could walk in to any job they wanted. I have worked my way up the jobs and property ladder without help from my parents apart from the deposit on my first house with my boyfriend which I had to pay back to my mother. Now she is 60 and retired and whinges because she is bored when I will never be able to retire at 60, if at all! She also expects me to drop everything for her whenever she clicks her fingers when I am a working mum! This continually appears to be a characteristic of the Baby Boomer generation. They are used to the world revolving around them and get very upset if this does not continue to be the case!

I read The Times every day and it's quite entertaining to watch the Tristrams and Letitias (I'm not the usual Times demographic being a 62 year old white van driver) whine about the fact that they're being deprived of some child benefit or other and that they don't know how they're going to manage on 80 grand a year. My Mum bought 2 of us up on 7 quid a week.

I can do no better than quote one of the comments to Paxman's article:

"You speak for yourself Paxman you patronising git. Some of us have had to work for a living. When you were a lotus eater in 1972 I was twenty eight and had been paying tax from the age of sixteen in 1962. I am a 1946 baby boomer and you have people like me to thank for your life of privilage at university. The possibility of further education was for me and people like me a pipe dream, there were too many of us. Stop wallowing in guilt and self pity Paxman and grow up, you don't speak for me, we live in different countries."

It's the usual middle class guilt trip.

It's just jealousy... f### 'em.

I knew this would provoke some strong emotions.....but consider that kids starting out in life now have a choice between going to university and racking up debts of around £40k before they enter the job market....where there may or may not be a job waiting for them or spending years on the dole or in low paid jobs.

That would be working class kids. Plenty of those out there still....not everyone had the means to purchase their council house. Even those are beyond the means of many young people today.

So where's the jobs and money gone?

It's your lot that vote for governments that campaign on platforms of tax cuts and spending cuts.

Then business still sneers and sends the jobs overseas.

Pay a bit more tax and you'll get a few more freebies.

So where's the jobs and money gone?

It's your lot that vote for governments that campaign on platforms of tax cuts and spending cuts.

Then business still sneers and sends the jobs overseas.

Pay a bit more tax and you'll get a few more freebies.

The young people don't use their vote....that is part of their problem......!

Is this some sort of catharsis on Paxman's part with regards to his 7 figure salary?