The Irony of the Week Award

... goes to Constance DeCherney. Poor Constance. She had such faith in the 60's cultural revolutionaries.

Baby boomers fretting over their pensions should spare a thought for Constance DeCherney. Like many of her generation, the 27-year-old Web strategist at Planned Parenthood in New York has done little to prepare for retirement. While she became eligible for a 401(k) in 2005, DeCherney only began putting money into it last year. She now contributes 3 percent of her pay, though that's just half of what Planned Parenthood will match, and DeCherney doesn't know how the investments are performing. "Just the idea of [saving for retirement] feels overwhelming," she says. "My fear of doing something wrong, or not doing enough, sort of paralyzes me."

Awesome. Social Security has been looted, modern companies aren't providing for retirement and Constance is watching her funds get killed as a result of the borrow and spend culture we created in the 60s. The ones the Flower Children didn't kill, they robbed. It's the fruits of slacker fascism, baby.

Constance, your future is blowin' in the wind.