Rita Hammer, Epilogue, Question 3

The end of the Epilogue struck me the most as it relates to my future significantly. Wheelan lists off the multiple things that have to be done in our country, or things could end badly. As the younger generation we are outnumbered by the older, meaning there are less people to contribute to increased productivity and more people who play bingo in the nursing home (on the tax payers dime). In addition to paying for the aging population, we must "pay for whatever government we choose to have, which we aren't doing now" and "pay the interest we've accumulated on past bills." Our country has an abundance of debt that needs to be payed off before our "over borrowing..ends badly, whether for an individual, a company, or a country." As weird as it sounds, I will be alive in 2050. I'll only be 54! I won't even be close to playing bingo (I hope). Instead, i'll most likely still be contributing to society in some way or other. It's alarming that it is our generation to whom our parents (in the nursing home) and our children will be counting on to come up with solutions to fix these major issues. Overall, it creates incentive to work hard and develop leadership skills so that we can make critical changes.