The insurance company mascot Gecko awaits the full weight of the executive from behind the desk, who insists on falling backwards onto the arms of the unwilling but captive hapless lizard.

“We can do this”, exclaims the executive in a bizarre ill-conceived team building exercise.

You want to say “How ridiculous! I’m glad real life is not like that.”

It is a most apt metaphor describing the tidal wave of government debt we are foisting onto our offspring.