Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

The young, smart, and very opinionated Cassandra Devine has had enough of the federal governments fiscal irresponsibility. And through her eponymous blog Cassandra she proposes an idea that will resolve some of the governments economic woes, one of which is making the Social Security system solvent. With millions of Baby Boomers about to retire and receive Social Security checks she postulates the Social Security system will bankrupt itself quickly, leaving nothing for her generation but mounds of debt. Her idea, for the incoming Baby Boomers to have the option of being euthanized or as they refer to it in the book "voluntary transitioning" by the age of 65 and in return, receive tax and financial credits from the government. When she's not creating political upheaval with her blog Cassandra works for Terry Tucker who is her mentor and at times unwilling side kick at a Public Relations firm in Washington DC. However, Cassandra's life is far from perfect. From her estranged father who squandered her tuition to Yale on a business start up and working against her on her proposed idea, receiving an other then honorable discharge from the Army for inappropriate behavior in a minefield, An egocentric and self-serving boyfriend who uses her and her ideas for his own political ambitions, and a rather profane President of the United States along with his sycophant Political Advisor trying to put her in jail, Cassandra always stands by her espoused ideals.

If you love political satire you'll love this book. In the comical yet near dystopian world Christopher Buckley has created, his heroine Cassandra Devine speaks loudly for as she puts it the "Whatever Generation". Buckley's character Cassandra is intelligent, beautiful, and a little on the self-destructive side. Terry Tucker, Cassandra's employer and mentor, Randolph Jepperson a politician from Massachusetts, and Gideon Payne a right wing evangelical leader compliment the story with exorbitant comic relief. The myriad other characters in the book are essentially political caricatures that are well developed and humorous. If satire and plenty of humor are your thing, give this book a read.

Christopher Buckley is the son of the late William F. Buckley best known as the publisher of the National Review. Buckley is also an editor at Forbes magazine. Other books Buckley has written are "The White House Mess", "God is My Broker", "Little Green Men", "No way to treat a First Lady", "Florence of Arabia", and "Thank you for Smoking" which was adapted into a movie and released in 2006.