My apology to the younger generations

It has become increasingly obvious to me that my generation of spoiled baby boomers are not only making the current economic situation worse, but are responsible for it's genesis and expansion. Every day this country borrows billions of dollars to feed the insatiable maw of a federal government that is out of control. How the offspring of "The Greatest Generation" became the most self indulgent, narcissistic, whiney and selfish generation is beyond me, but I don't blame my parents.

I'm sorry that my generation has encumbered todays youth with the bill for our profligacy.

I'm sorry that we do not have the collective guts to face the problems of overgenerous and run away entitlements and government spending.

I'm sorry that we have saddled each and every person in this country with over $40,000 in debt that they are responsible for through our greed and lack of fiscal courage.

I apologize for not standing up more stridently against the largesse granted to our public employee unions which will surely bankrupt many cities, counties and states before all is said and done, and I condemn those union employees for conspiring to take from the taxpayers what we don't have for ourselves.

I'm sorry for electing politicians who are incapable of understanding basic math, or worse, who do understand it and made politically expedient decisions no matter what the cost.

I'm sorry for my generations experimentation with soft socialism when we had ample evidence from our European neighbors that it was economically unsustainable and eventually boded catastrophe for our economy.

I'm sorry that many in my generation forgot the importance of hard work, sacrifice, thrift and the entrepreneurial spirit that made this country the greatest place to live in the world. Instead we have substituted a sense of entitlement, greed, dependence on the government and the robbery from future generations to support our indigence and perceived self importance.

I'm sorry that the "enlightened" children of the 60's have burdened you with political correctness, failing primary schools, intolerant and insular universities, public institutions who think the public exists to serve them through confiscation of their hard earned money through onerous taxation, governmental agencies who act outside their mandates based on ideology instead of their specified charters and a judiciary where many of it's members believe the constitution is a "living" and "malleable" document that they are allowed to interpret in any way to fit their ideological tendencies irregardless of the founders enumerated intentions.

I'm not asking for forgiveness because I don't believe it is deserved. Instead I'm asking that the generations behind us have the courage to finally say "no" and to show the intestinal fortitude and common sense that my generation have lacked. Someone has to be the adult.