The "Greatest" generation did, in fact, saddle us with Social Insecurity, one of the greatest and longest-running Ponzi schemes in history; medicare, one of the biggest boondoggles of modern times; and now this prescription drug scam. It IS sheer selfishness for them to demand that WE pay THEIR retirements AND their medical bills. Askel5 is far more right than wrong. There are MANY older folks who are outstanding people... however there are way too many who want their children and grandchildren and OTHER FOLKS' children and grandchildren paying their bills and have gotten the political whores in DC (NOT excepting POTUS) to do their bidding. Yours is the ignorance in this case.
FDR saddled us with Social Security which was a joke back then since noone lived past 65. It wasn't until people started living longer it even became an issue. LBJ saddled us with Medicare (Great Society), and Bush gave us Prescription Drugs. I do not know what generation you are talking about but my father is 72 and his father was from the WWII generation. Most of this generation you complain about have been dead for 10 years. If you are talking about people still alive (my parent's generation), I might agree with you.
It was the politicians of the greatest generation who did that. Why put the blame on all Americans of that era?