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End of the Boom Times

Atlantic senior editor Mike Kinsley recently made a straining attempt to give absolution to the Baby Boomers, and made a call for them to set their legacy, dropping a laundry list of character defects in the "stereotypical" Boomer that is just as self-obsessed and navel-gazing as that which he is seeking to point out.

There's just one problem here. None of these things were the actual cause of our problems. Greed can be good. It just can't be allowed to be our primary cultural value. Taxation should be as low as possible, and the programs we do fund need to have accountability, efficiency, and equality as their bottom-line attributes. Self-indulgence is no crime, in and by itself.

The real problem was the way the Boomers took their hands off the wheel of democracy and stopped questioning anything that benefited them, however temporarily.