While Mark Steyn’s America Alone and the essay that inspired it looks at the Big, Big Picture of the future, Richard Andrews of the Extreme Mortman blog fleshes out some of the remaining details, such as the coming rapid flameout of a generation that Glenn Reynolds describes as “rapacious oldsters“:
With endless whining about the fiscal calamity coming with retirement of the Boomers (US!) born 1946-64, and how short-sighted it is not to DO SOMETHING about it RIGHT NOW, I am tolerably amused that apparently NOT A SOUL has thought to consider how TEMPORARY this glut of rapacious oldsters will be. Something will be done, eventually, when there






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