He made some good points (too bad he couldn't have self-edited his one partisan jab), and I really wish the young people could understand that they are the ones affected the most. But they are busy getting their lives started, and enjoying being young, as they should.
This line said it well 'But those just coming of age today will never get a bite. They will just get a bill. And they know it.' Not sure they 'know it' or not, but if they do they need to act on it.
But what about this one - 'the generation that came of age in the last 50 years, my generation, will be remembered most for the incredible bounty and freedom it received from its parents'
Aren't the biggest expenditures SS, Medicare/Medicaid and Defense? Not too many boomers are collecting SS or medicare/medicaid? I think you could make a stronger case that the earlier generations did more 'taking' in that regard, since some of them received SS and had few or no FICA deductions. And it's not like we would be saying 'whippee, let's party and spend some of our kid's money on war machines!'. And the next generation is sharing in whatever protections we gained from that defense budget.
Now, if the trend was for the younger generation to be voting to cut all sorts of spending programs, and were aggressively pushing for a tax code with fewer special interest deductions, it would be clearer. I think they are at least as guilty of letting the politicians get away with this as we are.
Just my two cents.
-ERD50