meadsjn said: "If the Gen-X and Gen-y voters want to ..."
The only thing that the Gen-X and Gen-Y voters can't accomplish is to mandate self-reliance and productivity on the part of the American people. And nothing else will solve the problem.
I have a suspicion that a generation of people who grew up as latch-key kids will be able to tell the slackers to pull their own weight and make their own way in the world.