Mark Steyn: "The Brokest Generation"

A fabulous piece by Mark Steyn in this weekend's OC Register on what we are doing to our kids. An excerpt:

This is the biggest generational transfer of wealth in the history of the world.
If you're an 18-year-old middle-class hopeychanger, look at the way your parents
and grandparents live: It's not going to be like that for you. You're going to
have a smaller house, and a smaller car – if not a basement flat and a bus
ticket. You didn't get us into this catastrophe. But you're going to be stuck
with the tab, just like the Germans got stuck with paying reparations for the
catastrophe of the First World War. True, the Germans were actually in the war,
whereas in the current crisis you guys were just goofing around at school,
dozing through Diversity Studies and hoping to ace Anger Management class. But
tough. That's the way it goes.

If our kids do end up as the "brokest generation," I dare say they'll not be thinking too well of us a few decades hence.