"If young Americans knew what was good for them, they would all be in the Tea Party."

In his first lecture, which will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday, Prof Ferguson will insist the current public debt “allows the current generation of voters to live at the expense of those as yet too young to vote or as yet unborn.”

“It is surprisingly easy to win the support of young voters for policies that would ultimately make matters even worse for them, like maintaining defined benefit pensions for public employees,” ...

If you attend a Tea Party rally, you will find lots of young people as wells as the middle aged and some elderly.  The Tea Party is Middle America with an attitude.