{"id":2673706,"date":"2026-10-01T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhow-boomers-can-save-whats-left-of-america-for-younger-generations\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T08:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T12:03:24","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhow-boomers-can-save-whats-left-of-america-for-younger-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhow-boomers-can-save-whats-left-of-america-for-younger-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"How Boomers Can Save What&#8217;s Left Of America For The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignhow-boomers-can-save-whats-left-of-america-for-younger-generations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2673706&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The speech examines the profound cultural, economic, and spiritual decline of America, contrasting the thriving and cohesive boomer generation wiht the fragmented and impoverished younger generations, particularly Millennials and Gen Z.It attributes this deterioration to family disintegration, loss of shared values, and the erosion of Christianity, which historically provided moral foundation and social cohesion. The speaker highlights economic challenges such as rising costs of living, overwhelming entitlement burdens like social Security and Medicare, and the consequences of policies driven by secularization and globalization. Emphasizing personal responsibility and the importance of passing on faith,traditional virtues,and human capital,she advocates for community-based solutions,homeschooling,charitable giving,and investing directly in the next generation.The speech calls for a spiritual revival rooted in prayer and action, urging both older and younger Americans to reclaim their cultural and moral inheritance to preserve liberty and restore America&#8217;s foundational principles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>This is an extended version of a speech given to <a href=\"https:\/\/eagleforum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eagle Forum\u2019s<\/a> national conference last week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Are millennials and Gen Z better off than their parents?<\/p>\n<p>In their childbearing and prime income years, boomers were born into a more unified culture, with much less competition from foreign markets and migrants, far more plentiful family-wage-earning jobs that didn\u2019t require college degrees, far cheaper college for the minority suited for it, far lower inflation for core survival costs, stronger families with less divorce and working mothers, less crime, higher church attendance, higher rates of volunteering for everything from PTA to Little League, fewer cross-country moves from family to obtain a job, more cultural cohesion, and less-woke public schools where students spoke English.<\/p>\n<p>Boomers did not deserve any of those things because of merit; these are a gifted civilizational inheritance that helped them succeed. Yet, as a generation, boomers have passed down none of this to their children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>The boomers grew up in a completely different world than their children and grandchildren live in today. They need to know that and respond. It is an abdication of duty to spend 20, 30 retirement years consuming pleasures rather than leaving an eternal legacy for the people God placed you near.<\/p>\n<p>Boomers are the richest generation in world history, but their children are the most bankrupt, both financially and culturally. The shocking financial realities we\u2019ll look at in a moment are a symbol of the last century\u2019s private equity-style, vulture-capitalism treatment of Americans\u2019 priceless civic inheritance.<\/p>\n<h2>The Legacy Window Is Closing<\/h2>\n<p>My most recent book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/False-Colors-Flag-Our-Occupation\/dp\/1684515874\/ref=sr_1_2?sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>False Flag<\/em><\/a>, argues that family disintegration is a root cause of America\u2019s political and cultural disintegration. Family disintegration is also the root cause of the wealth gap between young and old Americans that is setting us up for crazier politics. You think the Trump era has been crazy? Buckle your seatbelts.<\/p>\n<p>Part of that craziness will come from the steadiness and civic trust we will lose when boomers head \u2014 hopefully \u2014 to heaven. While millennials and zoomers might rudely trash boomers in public, their deaths will be a huge loss for our country. Boomers are generous with their time and money, patriotic, and better educated than their kids. They have priceless practical knowledge about how to keep engines running, farms producing, and factories operating.<\/p>\n<p>But their window to shape their legacy is closing. Before they go, we younger folks need our grandparents to build and fill supply lines to sustain the ways of life necessary to win a long march of reconquest back through America\u2019s institutions. We need the richest generation in world history to offset the malevolent influences of billionaires like George Soros. And we don\u2019t just need boomers\u2019 money; we need them to teach us by example that some things matter far more than money.<\/p>\n<h2>The Economic Despair Spiral<\/h2>\n<p>Napoleon Bonaparte famously said that an army marches on its stomach. People worried about affording the medical bills if their kid breaks an arm aren\u2019t persuaded by slogans about the evils of socialism. The right needs to make people\u2019s everyday lives better. The investor Peter Thiel <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chamath\/status\/1986076707196162068\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes<\/a>, \u201cIf one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it.\u201d Shortly you\u2019ll see why I don\u2019t think we have a capitalist system, but his point remains: People are not likely to support a society in which their futures look worse than their parents\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>You see, the Cold War didn\u2019t fully end. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/claremontreviewofbooks.com\/the-cold-civil-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imported into American schools, workforces, and media<\/a>. So, paradoxically, the young have been taught to blame <em>capitalism<\/em> for the consequences of <em>socialism<\/em>. The distress young Americans feel, combined with their public school-induced ignorance about Christianity, history, and economics, opens their souls to communism.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A poll out this month found <em>59 percent<\/em> of <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2026\/09\/11\/dsa-democratic-party-socialists-poll-quinnipiac\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat Party voters<\/a> support the Democrat Socialists of America, which is just a communist front group, with more than 25 percent of all voters supporting the group.<\/p>\n<p>Communists and socialists agree socialism is merely the preface to communism. The world\u2019s leading Communist country, China, blends communist, socialist, and fascist methods \u2014 it widely deploys covert party organizations barely disguised as independent entities. So I divide the world into collectivism and ordered liberty. The United States is now a mix of these, and our bureaucracy has been on a merger path with Communist China, <a href=\"https:\/\/theupheaval.substack.com\/p\/the-china-convergence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as writer N.S. Lyons argues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Russ Greene <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/what-is-total-boomer-luxury-communism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">points out<\/a> that Communist China <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/government-spending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">redistributes less wealth<\/a> than the United States does. The United States also spends more on redistribution than Canada, and about as much as France, Sweden, and Germany. So if Germany and France are socialist welfare states, what is the United States?<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Government debt and deficits from old-age entitlements that the elderly <em>did not<\/em> earn are causing structural inflation that keeps the young from forming families. Further, the young have not been trained in the virtues necessary to deal with even small hardships. This creates a situation ripe for revolutionary politics and leftist extremism.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While luxuries and tech have gotten cheaper since boomers were young, the price of a middle-class life <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WadeMiller\/status\/2089147939352437138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has skyrocketed<\/a>: mortgages, rent, college, health insurance, food, and energy. Even things that have gotten cheaper, like new cars and clothing, have cratered in quality. Consumer goods, for example, wear faster and look cheaper, are harder to fix yourself, and can rarely be passed down.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Moreover, cheap screens are creating the dumbest generation in recorded modern history. <\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Working So Other People Can Relax<\/h2>\n<p>These next graphs show that all the core living expenses, in inflation-adjusted dollars, have increased by huge amounts, taking people\u2019s previous budget margins and keeping more Americans out of the middle-class status that promotes social stability. <\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s a personal example. In our 17 years of marriage, my family\u2019s medical expenses have always been below our deductible (except for the year a kid broke his arm jumping off a playhouse roof). The cost of employer-provided insurance minus those expenses works out to paying $375,000 <em>entirely for other people\u2019s health care<\/em>, while also paying for nearly all of our own medical expenses. Thanks, Obamacare!<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if we\u2019d been able to invest that money in a house, or retirement or college fund \u2014 we\u2019d have about $1.4 million, enough to retire right now! Instead, our government steals our work for other people through hidden taxes like coverage mandates. This is indentured servitude, and it depresses work ethic. So you can see why the gap between the young and old has grown so much \u2014 the young pay for far more expenses we can\u2019t get out of than our parents did at our ages.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most of what today\u2019s young people pay for, both directly and indirectly, are subsidies to the richest generation through Social Security and Medicare. And it\u2019s still not enough. Young people are paying <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/boydinst\/status\/2091912324982472727\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">twice as much in taxes<\/a> to fund Social Security and Medicare as their parents did, and still all those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/interactive\/2026\/08\/24\/social-security-medicare-insolvency-is-coming-here-are-solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only fund <em>half<\/em><\/a>  the costs of Medicare, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreedomfrequency.org\/p\/how-much-of-the-deficit-is-driven-411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most broke<\/a> of the two entitlements destroying our economy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These programs now cost so much they are three-quarters of federal spending, more than a quarter of which is now funded by debt (and set to explode further soon).<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These two are 95 percent of our nation\u2019s unfunded obligations \u2014 the difference between the workers we have to tax and the people expecting to get those workers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Entitlements Cause Unavoidable Inflation<\/h2>\n<p>The truth is, Social Security recipients are getting much more than they paid in. Despite what some may say to make themselves feel better, these programs are straight-up welfare. There\u2019s no way around that fact.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Even if President Trump somehow guts all the fraud in these programs, these realities would remain. In fact, if American retirees only got out of Social Security what they paid in, it <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/biggsag\/status\/2093017620568240449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">would become solvent<\/a>. Other less painful ways to address this situation would be 1) capping the health expenses people can charge to taxpayers, just like insurance does, and 2) only giving Social Security to those who need it, not those with sufficient retirement wealth.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think boomers would vote for these? They should. The alternative is state-sponsored euthanasia that kills even people who don\u2019t want a lethal injection, which is growing everywhere leftists control healthcare. My point is truly not to bash boomers here, but to open their ears to the young\u2019s complaints.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Now, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman has explained, \u201cInflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.\u201d This means inflation happens when governments spend more than they tax. Their only honest options for fixing this are raising taxes or cutting spending. The third, dishonest, option is printing money. That is already happening, and the size of this debt bomb is why it\u2019s going to continue.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In fact, we\u2019re facing a spiral in which entitlement-caused inflation pushes interest rates higher, which makes entitlement-fueled debt more expensive, and repeat. If interest rates stay where they are right now, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crfb.org\/press-releases\/5-interest-rates-are-troubling-sign-road-ahead-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">within a decade<\/a> <em>interest on the federal debt will<\/em> <em>cost more than Medicare and Social Security<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The only good thing about this situation is that young people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/survey-reports\/new-poll-most-americans-expect-social-security-benefit-cuts-third-believe-program#generational-divide-social-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mostly don\u2019t know<\/a> how it works. They just see that boomers eat out often while they can\u2019t afford to anymore, get free health care while we have to have a second income just to pay premiums, and own large homes in safe neighborhoods that we can\u2019t afford. On top of all that, in many states boomers are now insisting they be exempt from property taxes while still expecting an ambulance to come when they call.<\/p>\n<h2>The Loss of Cultural Capital Is Even Steeper<\/h2>\n<p>Now, let\u2019s be clear: Like every generation in history, boomers also had struggles. Some bought homes in the 1970s while interest rates were 17 percent. I know about boomers\u2019 famous work ethic because my father\u2019s put me through college. Those who retire on their own money are often business owners who for decades risked everything while working overnight, nights, and weekends. I don\u2019t begrudge success to anyone who worked hard and risked much. That\u2019s the American Dream \u2014 you are free to rise as high as your efforts take you.<\/p>\n<p>Yet young people feel we aren\u2019t getting the same deal the boomers did. Even if that\u2019s a <em>historically<\/em> ignorant view, as I\u2019ve shown with these slides, a fair bit of it is true. And it is even more true culturally than economically. Unfortunately, the young are envious of material wealth and don\u2019t prioritize what matters far more, which is rich relationships with family and Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Here again, boomers received a great political, cultural, and spiritual inheritance that they have passed on to their children in shambles. Boomers grew up in married homes at far higher rates than younger generations. The broken home is an incalculable and typically unnecessary trauma, and it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-West-Really-Lost-Secularization\/dp\/1599474662\/ref=sr_1_2?sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">contributes<\/a> to children\u2019s loss of faith.<\/p>\n<p>Boomers also enjoyed far higher rates of nonworking mothers. It is an incalculable wealth for a child to have his mother available to him from the moment he is conceived. It is also a wealth to a community to have more eyes on the streets, healthier but time-consuming home-cooked food, someone available to tend the sick, lonely, needy, and dying, and someone who makes life worth living with birthday parties, anniversaries, game nights, watching friends\u2019 children for free, and all manner of opportunities to feed social capital and human happiness.<\/p>\n<p>Women who have to work mostly to pay for other people\u2019s health expenses to get effectively catastrophic insurance for their own families have very little time left over to do this kind of natural social beautification. The GDP might go up when a mother works, but it goes up at the expense of all the things she might provide that make her family and friends\u2019 lives worth living.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Boomers grew up in an era of frenetic pairing that sounds like a fairy tale today. One of my beloved church ladies told me that in the 1960s she turned down her husband\u2019s marriage proposal <em>three times<\/em> before she finally accepted, and she got two more offers in the meantime. This is a common story from the era. Nowadays the young can hardly get a second date, let alone a proposal, let alone five!<\/p>\n<p>Feminism and social media-driven false expectations have destroyed social scripts and clear sex roles that help the young fruitfully interact with each other. This plus no-fault divorce and the feminist sexual free-for-all is destroying marriage. And the erasure of marriage is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/marriage-and-family\/report\/us-fertility-declining-due-delayed-marriage-and-childbearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the leading cause<\/a> of the childlessness fueling our national bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>A Normal Life Is Now a Luxury <\/h2>\n<p>Other public goods that subsidize personal happiness have also been destroyed. Now just about every public place \u2014 such as parks, schools, and libraries \u2014 is colonized by scary people such as vagrants, foreigners who don\u2019t assimilate, woke bureaucrats, and unparented kids with threatening appearances.<\/p>\n<p>This forces families to try to recreate privately what boomers received as a cultural inheritance. That requires extra expense to live at the same level boomers lived at cheaper. The most expensive of these is education. Getting a decent one now requires paying an exorbitant suburban mortgage and property taxes, a mother devoting her full time to homeschooling, or private tuition. Wealth adviser Johann Kurtz <a href=\"https:\/\/becomingnoble.substack.com\/p\/young-adults-are-poor-despite-every\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">calls this<\/a> the \u201ccollapsed commons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most important thing boomers have failed to pass on to their children is Christianity. This is far more important than money, because faith is where humans get meaning, direction, purpose, and true fulfillment.<\/p>\n<p>Losing Christianity means losing America itself. All of our founders, even the deists, believed American self-government was impossible without a Christian people. This is because Christianity teaches people to control themselves, so they do not need a government to do so. This is why, by the way, we should not import people of other faiths \u2014 not just because they are less predisposed to self-government but also because peers are extremely important influences on our kids, as Judith Rich <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesclear.com\/book-summaries\/nurture-assumption\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explains<\/a> in <em>The Nurture Assumption<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Promise-and-Peril.pdf?x78330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2020 meta-analysis<\/a> by researcher Lyman Stone finds that \u201cexpansions in government service provision and <em>especially<\/em> increasingly secularized government control of education significantly drive secularization and can account for virtually the entire increase in secularization around the developed world\u201d (italics original). This means sending kids to godless schools is a top cause of America\u2019s decline.<\/p>\n<p>Research also shows that fathers and mothers parenting their children less \u2014 a problem exacerbated when mothers work outside the home and hand kids screens \u2014 results in <a href=\"https:\/\/ifstudies.org\/blog\/secularization-begins-at-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">children losing their faith<\/a>. So all of these economic and cultural factors together push family separation, which in turn pushes secularization, as Mary Eberstadt explains in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/templeton-press\/primal-screams\/9781599475851\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her book, <em>Primal Screams<\/em><\/a>. Erasing Christianity erases America itself.<\/p>\n<h2>Greed and Envy Come From Lost Christianity<\/h2>\n<p>I believe this is the core reason Westerners are no longer marrying and having children. It\u2019s not solely about money, because our ancestors had far more children with far fewer comforts. They brought six, seven, a dozen children into the world with no health insurance and often not even a doctor. The pioneers didn\u2019t refuse to buy a house because it was too small or in a not-very-nice neighborhood; they built far smaller houses than the poorest American today lives in, with no indoor plumbing or heating and in wooded expanses teeming with Indian tribes that tortured their enemies to death.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>What kept people like that not just alive, but growing and thriving, in far worse circumstances than any of us have ever faced? Christianity. What keeps people going in the hard times that every person and generation experiences are the classic virtues, the chief of which is faith. The despair Americans feel is yet another top indicator of our loss of faith. It is what must change for all the rest to change.<\/p>\n<p>So, what can we all do today to help reverse these conditions of decline?<\/p>\n<p>Well, if you want America to even faintly resemble itself for another 250 years, you have to care about the obstacles to forming Christian families. Without them, we will continue descending slowly into tyranny by generating people only fit for the big-government slave-state we know under the terms socialism, fascism, and communism. Family health is a five-alarm fire for republican self-government. <\/p>\n<p>Also, Americans of every age need to stop whining and take responsibility for our lives. Yes, I\u2019ve discussed many huge headwinds, but every generation faces doom. Praise God half of our children don\u2019t die between birth and age 18. Praise God we don\u2019t have to grow all our own food, because my family would be dead within months with my gardening skills. Praise God the murder rates among today\u2019s invaders are far lower than during yesteryear\u2019s Apache and Comanche raids.<\/p>\n<p>Playing the victim and making excuses are for weaklings and cowards. People of faith don\u2019t gripe about our problems, because we know God is larger than all of them. And that\u2019s why I have hope \u2014 it\u2019s not because I think Congress is going to fix this, because it won\u2019t. But God is in control of our destiny. He does \u201cgovern in the affairs of men,\u201d as Benjamin Franklin affirmed. And that\u2019s why we first must do what Franklin commended in that same speech \u2014 pray for our nation.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for your kids. Pray for our country. Pray for me! We are in a spiritual battle, and prayer is warfare. There is no way we\u2019re getting out of this situation without a spiritual revival, and that revival needs to happen first in our own hearts.<\/p>\n<h2>Work Smarter and Harder and Stop Whining<\/h2>\n<p>We need to both pray and work. As a working mom, I\u2019ve always had in my mind the image of the Nehemiah of the Bible \u2014 a man who oversaw a people resettling their own land who had to build with one hand and fight with the other. I see my professional life as fighting and my home as the thing I\u2019m building. This is the time we have been born to. It\u2019s time to stop whining about it and take action.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/What-Boomers-Can-Do.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">your conference handouts<\/a> I put some ideas about what work to do. I\u2019m not going to read them to you, but I will give some context to shape that reading.<\/p>\n<p>Boomers, if you\u2019re alive today, God hasn\u2019t signed your retirement slip yet. While I absolutely believe in fierce civic advocacy, our government is deeply broken and we need to solve our own problems without it. As the great Alexis de Tocqueville recognized, America is where people solve our problems privately, and we need to revive that habit of self-government. Focus, like Tocqueville noted, on the people closest to you first. Don\u2019t fund evangelization in Africa until all the children in your church are evangelized through receiving a thoroughly Christian education.<\/p>\n<p>God put you in a certain family, in a certain town, in a certain country. Those closest to you are your first responsibility, given by God. The church has always taught this. Thanks to a new federal tax credit Republicans passed, it will cost you nothing but a little paperwork to send thousands every year to a Christian school starting in January. Do it!<\/p>\n<p>Another magnificent example is the philanthropists funding the Trump accounts for kids, a clever beginning at a response to the entitlements crisis. The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/releases\/2025\/12\/landmark-dell-gift-supercharges-trump-accounts-for-americas-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">giving $6 billion<\/a> to put $250 in those accounts for 25 million kids in low-income ZIP codes. In Indiana, the hedge fund manager Brad Gerstner is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wndu.com\/2026\/08\/27\/hoosier-native-brad-gerstner-is-architect-trump-accounts-who-is-he\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">donating $100 million<\/a> to give every Hoosier aged 5 and under another $250 in the account.<\/p>\n<p>You may or may not have $100 million, but you also can fund these accounts. Max out the contribution to your kids and grandkids. Fund every kid at your church. Start an effort to fund every child in your denomination. These funds replace the Social Security these kids won\u2019t get, and the college funds their parents don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n<h2>Don\u2019t Wait for Congress. Do It Yourself<\/h2>\n<p>Think in similar lines about solving, at whatever level you can, the problems you see for the young people you know. Pay off college debt. Build pipelines to work that don\u2019t involve college, such as a business that invests in training its workers. Help your grandkids with homework, read books to them, and pass your life experiences on. Show up to our lives \u2014 we need you.<\/p>\n<p>Read Kurtz\u2019s book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Leaving-Legacy-Inheritance-Thousand-Year-Families\/dp\/1919349715\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0#averageCustomerReviewsAnchor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Leaving a Legacy<\/em><\/a>, for some big ideas about how to use wealth wisely, but here I want to address one common mistake. People on the right need to understand what the left does, which is that <em>people are infrastructure<\/em>. It\u2019s called human capital. If you help pay a salary, or for a good education, or for a line item in a family budget, you are not just giving an income. You are building a legacy that outlasts you in institutional knowledge, leadership, and skills.<\/p>\n<p>This is why lefties steal your tax dollars to fund fake nonprofits: It funds their political army. Do that, but without the fraud. <em>Never<\/em> fund a non-Christian or non-conservative organization. Build and fund institutions that employ people and take actions aligned with historic American values.<\/p>\n<p>The only way to ensure the money you must leave doesn\u2019t get siphoned into woke garbage is <em>to train the people you leave it to<\/em>. You leave a legacy <em>by shaping the human beings who live after you<\/em> to continue doing the same in perpetuity. <em>The point of the wealth is the people. People are the ultimate wealth.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Always Put People First<\/h2>\n<p>People are not robots. We learn through apprenticeship. Learning in real life is fundamentally different from learning abstractly in cyberspace. I\u2019ve learned this from close contact with boomers, because unlike younger generations, they know how to build things, how to keep the lights on, and they learned this from life experience. AI cannot replace the human judgment necessary to not just know facts, but to put them together in new ways and understand the consequences if you change the equation. We need <em>more<\/em> human capital for the AI age, not less.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the U.S. military invests so much in degrees \u2014 because <em>personnel is policy<\/em>. What\u2019s the point of passing a law saying all kids have to learn American history if all the teachers who teach it are Marxists? What\u2019s the point of winning a presidency without thousands of trained staff the president can deploy to enforce the agenda Americans voted for? Good people don\u2019t materialize overnight. They are grown over decades of investment. Americans have strip-mined our people for decades, and it\u2019s time to reverse that and once again invest in people first.<\/p>\n<p>This also has the effect of getting us close, in person, to learn to love each other again. Generational segregation breeds hatred, resentment, envy, and the creepy, dangerous desire to simply get people\u2019s stuff without regard for who they are or how they got it. We solve it through de-segregating ourselves by age.<\/p>\n<p>Every apprentice needs a master and a patron. And every patron and master needs an apprentice. Entitlements have broken this natural life cycle. The rupture is threatening the extinction of the greatest nation that ever existed. By the grace of God, this country has given us everything we have, and we owe it not just gratitude but repayment. The time is short. Let\u2019s roll. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist and the writer and host of The Federalist&#8217;s lawfare podcast series, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/episode\/overruled-ep-1-where-lawfare-came-from-and-how-it-rules-the-world--75118735\" target=\"_blank\">Overruled<\/a>.&#8221; Her latest book with Regnery is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/false-colors-the-flag-of-our-occupation-joy-pullmann\/20707173?ean=9781684515875\">False Flag: Why Queer Politics Mean the End of America<\/a>.&#8221;  A happy wife and the mother of six children, her ebooks include the NEW &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/ZT5Wd\" target=\"_blank\">300 Classic Books for Ages 9 to Adult<\/a>,&#8221; and the bestselling &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books For Young Children<\/a>.&#8221;      An 20-year education and politics reporter, Joy has testified before nearly two dozen legislatures on education policy and appeared on major media including Tucker Carlson, CNN, Fox News, OANN, NewsMax, Ben Shapiro, and Dennis Prager. Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs who identifies as native American and gender natural. Joy is also the cofounder of a high-performing Christian classical school and the author and coauthor of classical curricula.    Her traditionally published books also include &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boomers had a better, more unified culture and stronger economy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":2673707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8495608493_8318436685_k.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[33729,86541,86540,37532,60396],"class_list":["post-2673706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-american-history","tag-elder-activism","tag-future-planning","tag-generation-x","tag-societal-change"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/8495608493_8318436685_k.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673710,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673706\/revisions\/2673710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2673707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}