I know I'm always going on about the children of today, and really I can't talk, because I am but a child of today myself. However this one got me a little rattled. Life is a set of stages, we learn, we train, we work, we retire, we enjoy life. Hopefully we will enjoy life througout, but you see what I'm saying. Now there are two major issues that we have problems with. First is the unemployment of young people. Secondly is the loneliness of old people, and them wanting independance, but not being able to look after themselevs properly. Now lets look at these as two separate issues.
First these teenagers that are unemployed. In my opinion they are lazy, at least the majority are. They realise you can get something for nothing, that whether they work or not, they will be able to get what they want, one way or another. A hard days work is alien to them. I've seen some turn their noses up at such things. Prefering to sit on their bums all day and live off what the government provides. Even going to college and so on, is just to much like hardwork. This isn't all young people. There just seems to be a growing number who prefer not to work. Which leads to them having to much time on their hands, and very little money, and then crime grows, and it's just a downwards spiral. The government here just tries to encourage them to work, but as I said it appears to be a lazy generation. So they end up with no homes, and barely getting by, but that is more appealing than going out to work everyday? Believe me I'm not a huge fan of work, but I realize that needs, must. Filling your time constructively, especially at that age is what you need to do.
Then there are these elderly people, who work hard, save for their pensions, and eventually retire. Many older people here live in poverty, which means they struggle to get out and meet people, get lonely, again can't fill their time. It must be awful to live on your own, maybe leaving the house, and walking doesn't come as easy anymore. It's almost like you're locked in. Away from the real world, it must be incredibley lonely. Having the time and means to help these elderly people is very difficult, because there is only so much time in the day. Those that want to keep living in their own houses, especially find it difficult.
So how to solve these two problems? Well some bright spark came up with the idea of moving these kids into the houses of these elderly people. These elderly people may live in houses, where they have the space to have a lodger or whatever. So you get this kid, who hasn't bothered to get a job so far and they become the lodger of this older person. In return they provide company, and help this older person. Doing tasks such as the shopping and so on! Am I the only person that finds this concept laughable?
First of all why should some elderly person let them stay with them? They've worked hard for all them years, and it comes to this? They will lead totally different lifestyles, how will they cope living under the same roof? Isn't this kind of thing just encouraging these teenagers to be even more lazy? They get free board somewhere, and they just do a bit of shopping in return. I'm sorry I think this is an easy escape for the government, one that will never work, and is making me realise just how little they actually know. Unrealistic isn't the word for it. Rant over!