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People
"want to frame this as a generational warfare issue, but I think it really
isn't," says Jared Meyer of the Manhattan Institute and co-author of
Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America's Young. "It's Washington
versus America's young—not boomers and the Silent Generation."
In
Disinherited, Meyer and his co-author Diana Furchtgott-Roth point blame at a
wide range of government policies that threaten to leave millennials worse off
than Gen Xers and previous generations. When the education system isn't failing
kids in K-12, it's charging them exorbitant amounts for college degrees that
confer less and less advantage. Fiscal policy, debt, and labor laws are
squeezing out opportunities for go-getters and entrepreneurs. And then there's
unsustainable old-age entitlements, such as Social Security and Medicare, that
take money from the relatively young and poor Americans and give it to older,
wealthier people.
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