Margaret Wente's war on the elderly. All of a sudden, she's concerned about the young!

Retired Globe & Mail editors give the fingers up to poor old folks. 

Margaret Wente, who has never been kind to the young, all of the sudden takes an interest in them. More than an interest really, more like a shield to protect her mentor Stephen Harper from the thrusts and jabs lobbed at him by the opposition and the elderly who are justifiably upset over the PM's cavalier remarks about OAS.

In a column that at best could be called laughable, the silver-spooned Wente - who has probably never worked a day in her life (punditry is not work) - drops all the code word bombs. Witness (emphasis mine):

In fact, seniors have a sturdier social safety net than any other segment of society. 

And

Now, our biggest social problem is not how to redistribute more money to the needy old. It’s how to protect everyone else from the tsunami of geezers that’s about to crash on our shores and suck the wealth of future generations out to sea. The war against seniors’ pension reforms is a war against the young. 

And

The biggest, most powerful and most dangerous lobby in the United States today isn’t the banking lobby or Big Pharma. It’s CARP’s big brother, AARP.

And

Not all seniors are well off, of course. But plenty of them are. Personally, I think it’s ludicrous that my affluent pals and I will be entitled to two or three decades worth of free doctoring, free drugs, free hip implants, discount transit tickets and other goodies. (I do like the seniors’ movie rate, though.) 

"Not all seniors are well off"?? Are you fucking kidding me? Don't feel entitled to OAS? Donate it those who need it, moron. Oh, that's right, giving to the needy goes against your ideological belief system.

Isn't that cute? A woman born into wealth, living off the outrages of the wealthy, and who will never have to work a day in her old age, likes the 'senior's movie rate'.

Margaret Wente gives ageism a new name.

But the best reaction to Ms. Wente's hard work ethic comes from @PopeShakey: