This has been a long-term trend that started with the baby boomers. Failure to implement meaningful structural reform in entitlements, climate change mitigation, and infrastructure investment have left our government with a looming massive debt. The baby-boomers never created the productivity gains that were needed to head-off those long-term investment failures, and instead took short-term gains. Hickenlooper is at least demonstrating compassion. What we really need to do is cull baby-boomers from the government administration and make smarter investment decisions. 50 years of a do-nothing economic generation needs to be stopped.