Today’s America is a production machine for social predators – including the generation we call “Baby-Boomers.”  On the watch of these more fittingly called “Baby-Doomers”, our society’s aborted fifty-million children, a number matching WWII’s death toll, and betrayed the survivors with an inexcusable yoke of debt. 

So far my generation’s bequeathed its offspring seventy-trillion in entitlement commitments and postponed liabilities.  As a bonus, we’ve exported jobs, capital, and vigor to fund our increasing devotion to consumption.  There is great shame in this legacy of greed and mismanagement. 

Baby-Boomer robber barons come in two flavors – crony capitalists and crony socialists.   Both are dedicated to the toxic agenda of nest feathering out of the pockets of others.  Our generation has abandoned the road to reason found in an honest free-market economy uplifting everyone for these two not-so-special interest ditches rewarding the select.  

In his book, The Vision of the Anointed, stellar conservative voice Thomas Sowell warned of a growing source of cultural dysfunction.  He cautioned against ends justifies the means thinking and the license to do pretty much anything because you believe your mission is special.  There’s nothing special about savaging your children.

The world is running out of fairy dust.  The bill for living beyond our means and on the means of others is coming due.  We cannot talk, print, steal, or sponge our way out of a day of reckoning.  Follow-up generations gifted with our burdens are angry and will grow angrier.  Instead of attempting to replicate our entitlement attitudes, the best will discover a positive destiny rests most firmly in their our own hands.  Dark realities always hide hope for those willing to skip the fairy dust and get to work.

No more than twenty-five percent of Baby-Boomers are prepared for retirement.  When we task our young with funding and nursing our golden years, we better pray for forgiveness.  The fact today’s Americans buy fewer diapers and more diaper rash ointment ominously forecasts our fate.     

Generational unity is birthed in social responsibility and fairness.  We owe it to our children to act promptly and stop pandering to special interests over the common good.  Out-of-control deficits require we get serious about living within our means.  The assured mediocrity of the left’s socialistic agenda merits passionate dismissal.  And we should start paying our bills now – not rely on the grim reaper to sneak us out and leave the kids with the tab.

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