He called for benefits to be cut fairly across the generations: "Let's talk about those benefits that go to everyone over 60 years of age, irrespective of wealth - winter fuel allowance, free bus passes and free prescriptions".
To compensate, in part, taxes would be raised on the wealth accumulations of the top1% CEOs and other coupon clipping aristocracy who today live at unimaginable "guilded age" levels of wealth.
We've had three decades of Republican/Democratic public policy out of Washington that has given us Gilded Age levels of wealth maldistribution, recession, wars, unemployment, a crippled public sector, trade imbalances, $5 a gallon gas, and massive budget deficits.
After an age of astonishing wealth, the cycle, experts say, seems to be turning once again.
It has youth (a median age of 35.3), wealth - 5% of households have an annual income of more than $200,000£102,00000), and poverty (7% make less than $10,000).
The opportunity that a trip to West Bromwich Albion might have offered his Arsenal team is no more in this age of vast wealth and equitable distribution.
Against whitewashed walls and beneath a startling glass canopy, the Leonardos and Donatellos, the choir screens and sculptures, the tapestries and caskets speak to an age of extraordinary wealth and aesthetic ambition.
Exercise and a proper diet require time, and in an age of unprecedented wealth, time has become terribly valuable.
In this age of exploding wealth, the number of captive trust outfits is over 50 and growing fast — up from perhaps a dozen only eight years ago.
