Sunday, March 15, 2009

Welcome, kids, to the Brokest Generation

Just between you, me, and the old, the late middle-aged and the early middle-aged: Isn't it terrific to be able to stick it to the young? I mean, imagine how bad all this economic-type stuff would be if our kids and grandkids hadn't offered to pick up the tab.

Well, OK, they didn't exactly "offer" but they did stand around behind Barack Obama at all those campaign rallies helping him look dynamic and telegenic and earnestly chanting hopey-hopey-changey-changey. And "Yes, we can!"

Which is a pretty open-ended commitment.

Future generations will be saddled with the debt we're piling up now unless they renounce it and make a clean start. I wonder how our Chinese friends - and others - would take that?

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