Oh, that would be just the boat the gubment wants you to jump into. I realize your sarcasm, but it also expresses the feelings of many of every generation since the BB. GenXers, GenYers, the TechnoGen, all of those since the "Greatest Generation" are full of people with their collective hands out instead of offering their hands to build our nation as our Grandfathers and Grandmothers did.
Our world was salvaged by the GG and we are forever in their debt. To show our gratitude by putting our hands out in hopes of the "gubment cheese" is a slap in their faces.
Oh, give me a BREAK.
The Greatest Generation foisted SS and all this other government crap on America. Their 'sacrifice' was doing what any other generation ATTACKED BY ANOTHER COUNTRY would have done. This Tom Brokaw schtick is easy to sell to the boomer market and the self-congratulatory oldster market, but I'm not buying it. Most of those folks wanted to sacrifice no more than you or I do right now--they just had their backs against the wall, with Japs on the left and the Krauts on the right. And they came home and stuck their hands in the till with the GI Bill and Social Security right off the bat.