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Why don’t we leave each other alone?

Jeremy Kolassa
Freelance Writer

These days, politics is the art of one group trying to impose its beliefs on another. The art of using government force to get one's way. The art of turning everything into a fight because that's all there is left. The art of the unnatural.

Used and abused: How baby boomers are ruining their children’s lives

5:12 PM 04/07/2011

I was always told that parents want their children to have better lives than they have, that each generation will strive to make things better for the generation that follows. But as our politicians in Washington debate spending cuts, the debt limit, and whether there will be a government shutdown this week, I’m starting to see something very different: that our elders are instead passing off their debt to us, and ensuring we won’t have any future at all. And nobody in my generation seems to care.