BOOMSDAY

In the not-so-distant future "Boomsday" looms large over the American economy: it's the day when the baby boomers begin to retire, crushing the country under the fiscal impossibility of their social security needs. Cassandra, a feisty, 20-something, father-hating, blog-writing publicist, has a solution: young people should stop paying taxes and the elderly should start committing suicide. Using this cultural uproar for a literary soap box, Christopher Buckley savagely satirizes politicians, special interest groups, and the various slimy creatures that inhabit Washington D.C.