"What is our Legacy?"

For a baby boomer, that is a legit question to ask. The largest by volume generation in American history and one that we can't get enough of has a lot of questions to answer about it's legacy. Does it want to be known as the generation in which half of all natural resources were consumed during their time on earth? Or the generation that did nothing about climate change? How about health care? Well, at least one baby boomer, Jon Kitzhaber, the former Oregon governor, has something to say about it.

John Kitzhaber, M.D., politician, and son who watched both parents die in a dignified way, cannot stop talking about it. His parents’ generation won the war, built the interstate highway system, cured polio, eradicated smallpox and created the two greatest social programs of the 20th century — Social Security and Medicare.

Now the baton has been passed to the Baby Boomers. But the hour is late, Kitzhaber says, with no answer to a pressing generational question: “What is our legacy?”

Indeed. The previous generation escaped the Great Depression, defeated the Nazi's and created Social Security. The boomers? Well, they did invent psychedelic rock and helped with equal rights, something their parents weren't to keen on. But once they hit 30 they just about said screw it, lets make cash and now that they're old they just want to live free again (but chained to a 401k free). And they are even going to kill Social Security too! That's talent.

I just want to know who they think is gonna pick up their tab?