http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/economy/economy-lab/data-room/oas-expenditures-as-a-percentage-of-gdp/article2330887/
D - The verdict. Boomers get their way. GenXYZ get 'haircuts'.
No surprise.
G&M: have you considered learning how to make a chart that is NOT misleading? Don't start at 1% where folks expect 0% to be. Not without denoting it.
This is sensational and misinforming.
I'd be curious what the chart would look like if we de-indexed inflation from the clawback.
Oh wait- can't do that. It would mean the upper class Boomers would get a haircut too. Can't have that.
Well, it's official.
I give up on all the federal political parties.
"Just vote". Really?
ReplyDeleteVote for which party.
They all suck.
Boomers, as I have indicated in the last month of pension and OAS blogs, control all of them.
Honestly, I really don't thinking voting will change anything at all. Nothing.
Voting is a distraction for us. If it means young adults think they've 'done their democractic duty', and think they can then rest on their laurels for 4-5 years, then voting is actually damaging. As opposed to writing a letter to your representative. Writing articles for your local paper. Starting petitions. Maybe causing some hell?
ReplyDeleteI just scrutinized the other chart too. The time spacing is 3 years, 3, 3... then SEVEN and then FIFTEEN. Really, G&M? Really? What is this, rookie hour? I thought you were supposed to be the high-brow intellectual national paper.
ReplyDeleteTragic.