ABSTRACT
In an article in The New York Times, Thomas Friedman (2010) stated that, “The fat lady has sung.” Specifically, Friedman was speaking about America’s transition from the “Greatest Generation” to what Kurt Anderson referred to as the “Grasshopper Generation.” According to Friedman, we are “going from the age of government handouts to the age of citizen givebacks, from the age of companions fly free to the age of paying for each bag.” Friedman goes on to say that we all accept that our parents were the greatest generation, but it is us that we are concerned about and that it is the “we” that comprise the Grasshopper Generation: “We have been eating through the prosperity that was bequeathed us like hungry locusts.”
