"Boomsday"

I just finished the book that i chose to read for the class entitled, "Boomsday". I stayed up all night reading it and finished it around 8am. I have mixed feelings on it, but I enjoyed the political satire and what the book was about. It was oddly enough about a blogger. Except Cassandra Devine's, the main character, blog became so popular that it caused a revolution against retirement centers/golf courses and the government. Her blog is called CASSANDRA, which stands for Concerned Americans for Social Security Amendment Now, Debt Reduction and Accountability. Her father is the main reason why she is blogging against his generation, the baby boomers. She wisely proclaims that since the baby boomers are getting old enough to retire, there is going to be an overwhelming amount of people getting Social Security. That would end up putting her and future generations in a great amount of debt with paying all these taxes for the retired “snobs”. There are so many characters and so much going on that it is hard to follow what is going on at some points. It would be to hard to sum in a couple sentences because of all the plots. Cass ends up having a little relationship with a Senator that is pursuing to become president. The idea of, “voluntary transitioning”, thought out by Cass, was the process of generations volunteering to kill themselves at age 75 which technically would end the Social Security problem. It gets its recognition from the election and overall it gets really intense. This book is a wild ride and it makes the government look like idiots which is good in my book.