Blame the baby boomers?

Niall Ferguson suggests that the Occupy Wall Street-ers really ought to be blaming the baby boomers, not big business (although, in all honesty, who really knows who they're blaming):

Of these harsh realities the occupiers of Wall Street seem blissfully unaware. Fixated on the idea that they somehow represent the 99 percent of people who scrape by on 80 percent of total income, they fail to see that the real distributional conflict of our time is not between percentiles, much less classes, but between generations. And no generation has a keener interest in slashing future spending on entitlements than today’s teens and 20-somethings.

So occupying Wall Street is not the answer to this generation’s problems. The answer is to occupy the Tea Party—and wrest it from the grumpy old men who currently run it. 

(Image: "A protester holds a sign during the Occupy Wall Street demonstration at Zuccotti Park in New York, Oct. 10, 2011," Jin Lee / Bloomberg-Getty Images, via The Daily Beast)