For example today, nursing a beer in a pub in the heart of Ford Nation, I overheard several working-class types discussing the CPP. They quite rightly observed that the current government's plan to raise the retirement age to 67 was really just a way of giving you a few more years to die before they had to pay you. Surprisingly enough, this was something they were OK with. In fact, one fellow suggested that Canadian old people should have their walkers armed with .30 mm cannons and be parachuted into Iraq where they could fight ISIS and also thin out the herd of Canadian old people, thus freeing up ill-gotten loot so it might be distributed to the Millenial Generation, who might otherwise spend their entire adult lives flipping burgers at McDs.
Their reasoned discourse brought a tear to my eye.
PS. Actually, they didn't explicitly draw a connection between dropping old people on Iraq & helping the youth of today. They just seemed to like the idea of throwing old people out of planes. But, whether they realized or not, their views were objectively progressive.
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