An unelected financial elite is now entrusted with the assignment of getting us out of a disaster into which an unelected financial elite plunged the nation.
We are just spectators.
What the Greatest Generation handed down to us — the richest, most powerful, most self-sufficient republic in history, with the highest standard of living any nation had ever achieved — the baby boomers, oblivious and self-indulgent to the end, have frittered away.
Last 2 paragraphs of Buchanan's essay. I wouldn't change a word of it. Very well written and said.
http://buchanan.org/blog/2008/09/pjb-the-partys-over/