Boomer Destiny

The U.S. experiences a major crisis about every eighty years and the last big crisis started more than eighty years ago. If history is any indicator argues author Tom Osenton we are in the very early stages of the next major crisisone that could make the Great Depression seem like a day at the beach. The storm clouds are on the horizon: A slowing U.S. economy major banks failing a weakening dollar the subprime mortgage debacle a widening gap between the wealthy and working class credit delinquencies and bankruptcies on the rise infrastructure crumbling healthcare in crisisthe list goes on and on. Baby Boomers says Osenton are standing precisely where FDR stood at the beginning of the Great Depression and they are in a unique position to help pull society out of the morass and set the country on a course of growth and contentment for generations to come.It''s no wonder that most young people do not feel they will be better off than their parents. Besides a looming economic crisis we face a number of other crises: budget deficit environmental real estate infrastructure education immigration and healthcare. Now throw in some unforeseen wild cards such as terrorism war disease poverty homelessness and natural disasters and you have a recipe for a cataclysmic multi-generational failure that will take decades and trillions of dollars to fix. Boomers are about to move into the role as the elders of an America desperate for leadership. It will be Boomers who take responsibility for directing us through the minefield of crises that will profoundly shape the U.S. for decades to come. It will be the Boomers'' responsibilityand their destiny and legacyto lead the U.S. through a thicket of issues that have been back-burnered by at least the last five presidential administrations. Full of solutions to seemingly intractable problems Boomer Destiny shows how they can do it.