Call to Alms

Baby Boomers, this is your last warning.

I have been patient, but you have had it too good, for too long. Your selfishness has left us with a horrible mess. You are bullies.

I try to forgive you for your tasteless reminiscing about the good old days of free-love during your free education. But your children grew up with the fear of AIDS, and the reality of expensive education.

I can't take your advice to 'just work harder'. You got a job during assumed 100% employment, after you left your free education.

With your earnings, you went and inflated the property market so outrageously, that when bank interest really started to bite, it was generational. It didn’t hurt you too badly though; it was a mortgage on your second or third investment property. You paid for it by keeping our rent high.

If I had somewhere decent to work, or even squat in a decentralised town community, I wouldn't feel so pissed off. But you killed the environment and made the modern conurbation so unfriendly (but mandatory if you want any sort of services), that it is considered normal to commute for two hours each day, each way.

I might even find it (in my ADHD heart) forgivable that so many of you didn’t produce the labour to support youselves. (Too many kids can interrupted the lifestyle).

But then you insisted on retiring at a normal age, despite the fact you’ll probably live another 40-50 years.

How will we support you?

I might have hoped to get by on a government pension, but then Baby Bastards changed the law, so that we were forced to invest in Baby Bastard schemes dreamt up by Baby Bastard mates. It reduced our stypend, rather than letting us spend it to invest at the time.

As you started to leave power, (When. Please. When?) you made it inevitable that we will also have to fully fund our own retirement... as well as yours.

We will have to sell our homes to pay for your extended old age. You got divorced at record rates - you couldn’t stand each other. This bisects the pitance you leave us. We expect no inheritance.

I thank you for my reason. You gave me a rationalist education, debt, a dying planet and no God (leaving me alone to face the universe). You went and spent money on 'self actualisation', herbal remedies "wimins" and "men's" movements... and “human potential”.

You've never fought a war. You have squandered your parents sacrifices. You leave all the bills to your kids. Your children are the first generation in Australian history not to improve on the standard of living of their parents. You can’t call us lazy, because no generation has worked longer or harder.

But here comes the budget; and my last straw.

If you change healthcare funding so that the goal posts are moved again, I'm changing behaviour. If I miss out on reasonable public coverage, whilst being forced to join private funds and pay for the people who don't, with bad tax, ... I am putting you in a retirement home that I saw on 60 Minutes.

'Baby Boomers' defined the 'Me Generation'. Be proud of that, you hapless, shallow, grasping, venal, intemperate slobs. You are beyond reprehensible and you made sure I've got little to lose.

Fuck You Very Much.