Uncle Sam wants to kill YOU!

Cass Devine is angry. Angry that her father forced her to join the military instead of going to Yale when he spent her college savings on his software startup. Angry that Senator Randy Jepperson drove her into a Bosnian minefield and ruined her military career. And especially angry that the government had just passed legislation increasing the social security tax 30% to pay for all of the baby boomers who are newly heading into retirement and are becoming increasingly dependent on the earnings of younger generations.

But, according to Cass, when the going get tough, the tough get blogging. So she proposes a plan - Voluntary Transitioning, she calls it - to her sizable population of under-30 blog readers, which calls for government incentives of legalized suicide for people over 70. If even only 20% of baby boomers followed through with "Transitioning," the social security system would be saved and the government might actually move out of its gigantic debt.

This book is entertaining, but sometimes it seems the satire is stretching too far, like when Cass (who works as the protege for the one-time protege of Nick Naylor, from Thank You for Smoking) is trying to boost the positive image of North Korea by hosting a celebrity golf tournament there. Still though, this book has many funny parts and is a nice, quick read. So maybe it is unrealistic and immoral, but it does make you think twice about social security reform.