Fortunately not so Labor politician Anika Wells who used a speech to the house of representatives on Friday to draw attention to the problem by comparing actual statements made by federal politicians to quotes from the satirical news site The Betoota Advocate. Wells then asked: “Government asked youth to use their retirement savings to prop up the hyper-inflated property market.”Success! The idea was later canned after everyone realised it would send house prices spiralling higher and leave people facing potential poverty in their retirement. “Millennials can’t afford a home after spending all their money bailing out Gerry Harvey,” she said. And it appears the problem’s not unique to Australia – soaring property prices, not idiot politicians, that is.