“Poland is no country for old people,” Gazeta Wyborcza announced on Friday, with much handwringing in a full page spread advertising an upcoming series of heartrending etc etc. The text continues:

“You humiliate us

You forbid us love and sex

Fast cars

You tell us to throw pots and make wall hangings

Look after your children

You disempower us

We are transparent to you

You treat us like a burden

You are waiting for us to die.”

Conspicuously absent from this list of indignities you (we?) visit upon the elderly is:

“You are shortening our retirement.”

This may be because the previous day in its positive assessment of the government’s social policies the same newspaper wrote: “Among the government’s successes are the draft plan to restrict entitlements to early retirement.” However, among the government’s failures is “There is no plan to raise the retirement age for all citizens.”