Thomas Friedman is starting to understand why my generation is so upset:
I am a 56-year-old baby boomer, and looking around today it’s very clear that my generation had it easy: We grew up in the shadow of just one bomb — the nuclear bomb…
But there are now two other bombs our children have hanging over them: the debt bomb and the climate bomb.
It doesn’t just end there. Yes, the primary, macroeconomic reason for the financial crisis, at least in the United States, is that consumers and the government have been going into debt to live beyond their means for the past thirty years. But there are many other social, political, and economic reasons why young Americans today are so, to be blunt, pissed off. A pessimist might say that the United States might be heading towards intergenerational warfare against the Baby Boomers in the near future.
