So why Oldies Should Take Be aware

Countrywide recently, many of all of us were exercising our right to vote. Yet again the dust has (kinda) completed, you could be requesting the fact that was the fuss all about.

Although it didn't get much hot-air time in the election lead-up, but we oldies could be creating a problem. Australia's population is aging with ABS figures showing that the proportion of Australians over 65 years could increase to 25% by 2056. (In the US, more than 10, 1000 people every day switch 65. ) A getting older population could be a threat to our overall economy and political system.

Each of our aging population will place increasing stress on a variety of sectors, a decline in the labor force, and a decline in the associated tax base. Consequently, you don't need to be Albert Whatshisname to figure out that increased expenditure coupled with lowered earnings makes deficit, financial debt, and possible monetary downward spiral.

Two related things seem to be certain. People over the age of 65 are likely to require a very conservative stance to changing the current system including their welfare and there is a purpose for governments to invest in an infinitely more cost effective and comfortable situation with this aging group. Most oldies have priorities that often change from those of young generations - think environment change, crumbling infrastructure, youngsters unemployment, entry to education. Simply by their inaction, few political figures seem to be too concerned that nothing much can be done regarding this divide without broader, more meaningful changes.

We all nod our heads in agreement that the interests of future generations are important to any or all in a democratic contemporary society. We know it's the next generation that is to be expected to pay the personal debt, manage the inadequate structure, experience declining prosperity, and pay for a hopelessly inadequate educational system. However, on what we're experiencing at the moment, we're going die waiting for a dysfunctional political system to make the reforms that might promote growth that will inevitably cause distress to an aging bulk. OK, it's a global issue, but governments the world over are doing very little of note to help.

If it's so that 'politics is the art of the possible', suggesting that all national politics depends on upon negotiation and compromise between different parties and viewpoints that make up a body politic, there may be trust. Otherwise Plato's idea stated in The Republic (380 BCE) may become an actuality within Australia: 'It is made for the elder man to rule and for the younger to submit'. Or perhaps maybe Sam Cooke did it right, 'A change is gonna come'.