When you write as one of the many bloggers few people read, you are encouraged when a national writer addresses the same topic you've already taken up, confirming your instincts about what's happening in the world around you.
Take Michael Kinsley, for instance, writing in The Atlantic magazine about the bust of the Baby Boom.
Look down this page, and you'll see that in my last piece, written over Labor Day weekend, I took a slightly different and much shorter tact than Kinsley.
We both generally conclude that until now Baby Boomers, that great generation of Americans born between 1946 and 1964, have blown it.
Kinsley suggests in his article that our generation has 19 years to save its reputation, by allowing ourselves to be taxed to the point that we pay back all the money we and our parents borrowed to finance the society we have enjoyed over the past half century in America.
My suggestion was there was no way to make repairs.
But Kinsley has a point, and people who read me know I am all for making amends for our sins while we can.
Check out Michael Kinsley's piece. It's politically impossible, but at least he offers a solution.
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