Some of the responses in this thread sound like they are coming from a spoiled generation. Boomers didnt start SS. We have just paid more money into it then any generation probaly ever will. I think boomers kids are spoiled much more then boomers.
I dunno about everyone else but I wasnt spoiled (1957). I have worked my ass off to get where I am. Problem is america's golden age is over. Things are going downhill thanks to the fact that the boomers defeated communism. Now we have two billion plus people who want the american dream instead of poverty in a mud hut and eating rice all their life.
Other gens including The greatest generation started the cold war first by getting into WW1 which we probaly should have staid out of and then by turning russia into a superpower. They should have listened to Patton? or was it McArthur?
Boomers biggest mistake is gonna be turning China into the next superpower. Boomers were not responsible for outlawing prayer in school or abortion.(IMHO thats when things started downhill fast when we told God he was no longer welcome)
But I do see and hear a lot of hate coming from X,Y and Z gens. From what I have seen they continue to be spoiled rotten by boomer parents and lazy.(Not all kids of course but I say the vasy majority). Too many 20 something year olds made 60 grand plus for a few years in the 90's. They are bitter because now they are being slapped with reality. That was abnormal. You start at the bottom of the ladder and work your way up. You dont make 60 grand plus till later in life after spending 20 years working and learning if you make it at all.
Um no. The problem is the Boombers fostered abortion and birth control so they could live selfishly and now there is not enough people left to take care of them. End of discussion.
I should add that boomers are not responsible for FDR who pushed socialism to the top of the cliff and LBJ who put it on his back and climbed the highest Mt.
If you have any kind of useful degree, you can make a whole lot more than 60K a year right out of college or graduate school (especially grad school). Unless you have nothing more than a high school degree, you have to be a real screw-up to spend 20 years making it to 60K.