Boomer "hypocrisy" and retirement spending

These public failings are also mirrored privately. I know many bright, politically engaged boomers who can summon vast concern or outrage about global warming, corporate corruption, foreign policy and much more - but somehow, their own Social Security and Medicare benefits rarely come up for criticism. Our children will not be so blinded to this hypocrisy. We have managed to take successful programs - Social Security and Medicare - and turn them into huge problems by our self-centered inattention. Baby boomers seem eager to "reinvent retirement" in all ways except those that might threaten their pocketbooks. "Boomers Stay Selfish and Silent" St. Petersburg Times (Florida)