Because you're a generation that has left nothing but debt and little investment in society in its wake. The Boomer generation was handed massive boom times and new infrastructure post-war, were given free education and cheap housing and goods and then left the next generations a dying planet, the inability to own homes and the absolute flat out dominance of policy skewed to pandering to the older demographic.

Lets be honest here, I will never get retirement, it will be phased out by the time I'm 65. I never got free Uni and Boomer dominated politics has seen education cost skyrocket, I will likely never be able to afford a home at current rates like the majority of my generation, we will be left with the effects of climate change while you Boomers fight tooth and nail against action, chances are Gen Y/Post-Gen Y will likely never get access to their super, a lot can happen between now and 2050+

In terms of policy, the Boomer generation has always been pandered too and pampered, it is us who have to clean up your mess. Honestly will throw a party the day the last boomer in this country kicks the bucket as many in Gen Y will do.

Kiron22 wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 6:49pm:



What cheap housing? What dying planet? My son is a next generation and owns his own home, far more expensive than mine.

Kiron22 wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 6:49pm:



Neither did I. I was in the Army by the time Gough got in. It's his fault.

Kiron22 wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 6:49pm:


The climate has been changing since time immemorial. Anthropogenic CO2 is 0.117% of GHG's. Huge ain't it?

Kiron22 wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 6:49pm:


Yep, there could be another boom. Depressing, isn't it? You mean they are all going to die young, when Boomers, through study, have lifted life expectancies?

You won't clean up my mess. You are too busy crying into your cab-sav.

lee wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 7:04pm:


My kids stand to inherit in the millions and have been denied nothing in their lives.  I finished high school at 15.5 (Leaving Certificate) and worked like a dog for years.

Oh my goodness , he just must be a lonely old guy.

Next he will be an ex astronaut...

LifeOrDeath wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 8:41pm:


It's a pretty good chance!

lee wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 7:04pm:


Housing was far cheaper in the past than it is now, cost of living has skyrocketed. Even if you yourself didn't get free education (but education until the 1990s basically cost pennies compared to now. Oh look climate change denial from the boomer that my generation will suffer for. No, there isn't a chance for another boom. Global profitability has been on a downward trend since post war era. Booms were largely based on resource sector which is already winding down, automation and AI will throw millions/billions out of work, Climate Change will essentially wipe out developing nations causing the biggest human migration in history (which is ALREADY HAPPENING, the Syrian Civil War started with an unusual after drought several poor crop seasons)

Wahhh "I worked since I was 15 how am I selfish" You and your generation are selfish because as a generation you have reaped the world for yourself then kicked everyone else down the stairs. You just need to look at the NBN to see how Boomers want to sabotage future generations because "Muh rates" fear mongering.

Again, you are leaving us with a dying planet. Thanks boomers, thanks for smacking up the entire planet then blocking any attempt to try mitigate it. We are so grateful.

Believe me when I say this from the whole of Gen Y, we will party when the last of your generation dies. I'm not saying this as just me, I've heard this sentiment echoed hundreds, thousands of times over the years.

And if there is any reason to give 16 year olds the vote, it still is, you Boomer f*cks outnumber us 3:1 in voting and actively screw us over every time.

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I don't even know how to respond to such stupidity.

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Yeah, me, alone, is going to stop billions of tonnes of CO2 pumped into the atmosphere. There was something that stopped it... wasn't it a carbon tax? Oh wait got rid of that because you old Boomer f***s cried about "Muh rates" and then sold out my entire generation for non-existent savings.

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Wanna sell me your house for $60,000? that was the average housing price including inflation 1970 according to the treasury.