June 30, 2012
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“I’m a student and I’m about to sit my driving test, what will the cost of fuel be like in 50 years’ time when I’ve still got a car and need to get about? So why are people focusing on the here and now instead of what’s going to be happening in 20 or 30 years’ time for the people that are still going to be about? Everybody is focusing on what’s happening now.”
“I’d like to build on someone else’s point about the short-term nature of this… It just seems that everything is too short-term, we’re not thinking about the long-term… I think that we need to get rid of this short term and look at the long-term because the debt is meant to rise in 20 years’ time due to the pension crisis.”
Two young members of this week’s BBC Question Time audience.