The fact that American living standards have broadly stagnated, and for some segments of the population have declined, should be cause for real concern to the ruling class.
What could we have accomplished with all of that money, all of that talent, and all of those American lives if they had been focused on revitalizing our own country?
In all the fields touched by the Boomers Helen Andrews profiles—technology, entertainment, economics, academia, politics, law—what they passed on to their children was worse than what they inherited.