The WWII generation developed an economic powerhouse in a world where there was no other competition. That produced a false euphoria where unions demanded enormous benefits and employers allowed the excesses as the pot of gold seemed to be endless. The socialist New Deal was cooked up with a ratio of 23 to 1 workers to beneficiaries. That ratio is three to one today. Today's world has cut throat competition as the rest of the world caught up with ability to manufacture. The 'golden years' of operating without competition are over. The boomers were children in the heyday of this economic boom. They didn't cause the problems that drive all the whining in this thread. The socialist policies were cooked up from the New Deal Democrats and accelerated by the Great Society Democratic welfare state invented by LBJ.
They didn't cause the problems but they voted in large enough numbers for Clinton to avoid dealing with them for another 8 years. Need to face such facts.