'And just which govt, is going to say NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! To an increasingly large, long lived and historically self centred and selfish, still voting, demanding demographic.'

Yes, of course. This greedy 'long living' demographic doesn't need to eat or have a roof over their heads - after 40+ years of working. They're just old people. By all means, let them starve in the street (for having the audacity to live so long) or herd them into 19th century style workhouses, but don't even think of reducing our $30 billion annual military budget, or any other 'essential' services like corporate incentives to the wealthy.

'The boomers were/are the most privileged generation in history.'

Yep. This 'privileged' generation are now living through their third major recession (the previous ones being the late 1970s and early 1990s). Added to that, the later boomers bought into the housing market when house prices were tripling and quadrupling every 3 years, which deferred their entry into the housing market by several years in order to save the ever-inflating deposits needed(at least $300,00 in today's values) - and once finally in the market, they had to pay mortgage interest of up to 18%. They were also the first generation since the Depression to experience the serial retrenchments and downsizings of the neo-liberal/globalisation era.

Now they are being treated as some nebulous grey tsunami that is drowning the Western nations in social security debt, even though Western governments never seem to lack the funds to bail out our failed financial system.

ray51.
I know several people in your situation. I wish there were more that I could do other than just say: 'Hang in there.'

Before you let governments and the wealthy take away your Pension rights, bear in mind that a lot of the the older of the Baby Boomers will be dead or close to, as the coming 20years unfold. Those aged in their late 50’s to 70’s. We don’t all live until we are 80years, that is a maximum not an average. Newspaper funeral notices back this up.

The younger portion of the Baby Boomers are all paying much more in Super than the older Baby Boomers did. So where is this huge problem? Also the younger Boomers stand to inherit a fortune in property and wealth to add to their Superannuation as the older Boomers die.

A lot of professional Boomers who have white collar jobs which don’t demand any heavy physical work and maybe own their own Business or Practice will most probably in a lot of cases choose to go on working a couple of days a week. That again takes the pressure off Boomer retirement.
Just because professionals can do this because of their desk jobs and control over what hours they work shouldn’t mean that physically demanding work should be expected of old boomers who can no longer do heavy work.

For example they shouldn’t want some poor old 60year old to do demanding house cleaning or nursing while The young smart Johnnie or Julie just out of school gets the less physical desk job. It would make more sense that the young strong ones are doing the heavy cleaning and nursing jobs, while the old ones get the less physically demanding desk jobs. But that ain’t going to happen is it?

Because of ageism by employers and the wanting of the glamour jobs by the young ones. Unless the government steps in and provides part-time desk jobs of 20% or more for older workers in government departments. Put their ideas where their mouth is so to speak.