Warren Buffett pushes back on doom and gloom comments about America. Warren Buffett pushes back on Trump, Sanders

Warren Buffett has a message for presidential candidates spreading doom and gloom about the United States: America is great, and her children will inherit a better country than the previous generation.

"It’s an election year, and candidates can’t stop speaking about our country’s problems (which, of course, only they can solve)," Buffett, chairman of the board of Berkshire Hathaway, writes in his annual letter to the company's shareholders. "As a result of this negative drumbeat, many Americans now believe that their children will not live as well as they themselves do."


"That view is dead wrong: The babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history."

Buffett, 85 and long one of the richest men in the world, goes on to rattle off statistics aimed at showing that pessimistic politicians like Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders — who often say that Americans are worse off now than in the past — have things backwards.

"Most of today's children are doing well," Buffett emphasizes, and all families in his "upper middle-class neighborhood" witness better living standards than when he was born. Cashes in the marketplace and between politicians in Congress, he argues, "have forever been with us — and will forever continue."

Buffett's bottom-line message to Trump and Sanders: "Today’s politicians need not shed tears for tomorrow’s children."

"For 240 years it’s been a terrible mistake to bet against America, and now is no time to start," he concludes. "America’s golden goose of commerce and innovation will continue to lay more and larger eggs. America’s social security promises will be honored and perhaps made more generous. And, yes, America’s kids will live far better than their parents did."

Buffett has endorsed Hillary Clinton.