THE BORING TWENTIES; Grow Up, Crybabies, You're America's Luckiest Generation
"Those in power have practiced fiscal child abuse. Our role . . . must be to stop the dumping of toxic policies on future generations."
- 26-year-old Douglas Kennedy
THERE'S NOT much shock value lately in young people trashing the America their parents worked to build - even when it's the son of Robert Kennedy neatly dismissing the reforms of his uncle and father. But Kennedy's complaint, issued in announcing the creation of yet another group of twentysomething activists, does bring into focus a fallacy that has become gospel lately: that this new generation has it tougher - and will continue to have it tougher - than any other in America.
Truth is, the current and future quality of life of America's twentysomethings, as a generation, isn't below that of older cohorts. …
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