The only way to save America’s children is to lock up the baby boomers. We are robbing the next generation’s future.

If you’ve been keeping up with your boomer reading this summer, you know all the country’s economic problems are our fault. In a July 4 essay, Kurt Andersen singled us out for upsetting the balance that has existed for 250 years between two great American impulses, radical individualism and service to the commonwealth. “Thanks to the ‘60s, we are all shamelessly selfish,” he wrote. Bill Keller asked everyone to leave the room except his fellow boomers — “The Entitlement Generation” — while he chastised us. It is time, he wrote, for boomers to reform their greedy impulses: “And by the way, we should resist the boomer temptation to take every cent of the reform from the pockets of our kids.”

Mild stuff, compared with “Generation Screwed,” an expose by Joel Kotkin in Newsweek Daily Beast on the terror boomers are inflicting on millennials. “Are Millennials the Screwed Generation?” the article asked. And whose fault is it? “Boomer America’ never had it so good,” reported the Beast. “As a result, today’s young Americans have never had it so bad.”

Boomers are guilty of qualifying for Social Security at too young an age, using Medicare too often and pocketing fat government pensions. We continue to work when we ought to retire and let the millennials take over our jobs.