Rose Ley

The Shallowest Generation

Your article is very good and after reading the blogs it is obvious that many readers are offended by the truth and, I believe, are still blindly unaware of the cost. This financial debacle can only end in tears. As a mother of three boys and one girl, the moral decline of recent years has sent chills down my spine. Our children's future is at risk.

This will end in civil unrest. It is a pre-armageddon event. We have been brainwashed by positivism and the promise that if we believe things will be OK they will. I don't pretend to know how it will end but I am afraid.

Of course life is too complex to cover all issues in any article and as many have responded, some of us have lived reasonably appropriately. I have also complained that those who have paid down loans and saved have been: discriminated against by Government policy, mocked by investment companies who have encouraged everyone to borrow and borrow against their homes for a better lifestyle and sadly been mocked by those we sometimes loosely call for not jumping on the bandwagon.

I have spent a fortune educating my kids but I have also lived far better than those before me and therefore do not pretend to possess the mettle of my ancestors. I hope, however, it is not too late learn how to be strong as God knows a time is fast coming that will test us all.

Eyes Off the Target

And I guess if you try hard enough you can turn a bad report upside down and make great headlines.