Having enjoyed a life of free love,
Hmmm, it was my "Greatest Generation" (as definied by an avowed socialist) parents who bought into Kinsey and got divorced by 1960...
free school meals, free universities,
Seems to me I had to borrow and pay. Did they? Not a dime. Hell, they even got to deduct their credit card interest!
defined benefit pensions,
Wanna bet? My "Greatest Generation" parents got those. Not me. But my wife and I sure as hell paid $20K a year in Social Security and MediCare benefits to my "Greatest Generation" parents.
mainly full employment
Not hardly. Remember the Carter bust right after they graduated? How about Bush I's wondrous recession?
and a 40-year-long housing boom,
Of which the "Greatest Generation" were more beneficiaries than we. Oh, and who was it who was screaming about killing Social Security when Bush II tried to privatize it? It sure as hell wasn't boomers.
they are bequeathing their children sky-high house prices,
Seems to me those prices crashed fairly recently and are pretty low right now, just when we were ready to pay it off and after paying at historically high interest rates for decades until recently. I remember paying 13% for my construction loan, plus six points. Did the "Greatest Generation" have to do that?
debts and shrivelled pensions.
Yeah, look whose pension is shriveled now. We probably have a better chance of having our 401-k confiscated than realizing a benefit.
The "Greatest Generation" had their chance to fix this mess during the Eisenhower administration and jail those Roosevelt commies for good. They didn't do it. Instead they allowed the Cultural Marxists to educate their children and we've all paid the price.
Well said.
Nicely done, and spot on.