http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/savings/8028884/Savers-told-to-stop-moaning-and-start-spending.html
It can be summarised as "suck it up and quit whining - you deserve it and can afford it."
Through hard-work and thrift, I retired at age 50, seventeen years ago. If the govenment will leave me alone, I will do okay.