I blame the Baby Boomers, too.
I am Gen X, a member of the 13th American generation born since the Revolutionary War, and I was born after the Baby Boom.
My wonderful Father served in the U.S. Army in World War Two, in the Pacific Theater of War. He was a better man than any other whom I have met.
Grandpa was once a cowboy, and served in the U.S. Army during World War One.
No boomers are collecting any SS retirement or medicare benefits, those are going to GGers.
Left off my earlier list of Post WW2 GG accomplishments: Castro's reign over Cuba and the Marxist warfare he sponsored in Central America, South America and Africa, the abandonment of the Iranians to the ayatollahs after decades of propping up a fascist ruler, the death of the US automobile industry and along with it the steel industry and the surrender of our supremacy in this arena to Japan (there were no Toyotas, Hondas, Datsuns, in American garages until the GG took control in Detroit), PolPot and the millions he killed, Idi amin and the millions he killed, the United Nations, hundreds of thousands of our former "allies" killed in VN after the GG politicians cut and ran.
There is such a lack of historical truth on these boomer-hating threads. The GG grew-up during the depression and experienced it as children, it was their parents who had to deal with its realities. The idol worship comes from kids who lack first hand knowledge and historical perspective. The image they worship is one gilded by both the media and the desire for what people believe to be simpler, more dignified times.
Among me and my nine siblings we have thirty children, most of them GXers. I am proud to say that there is not a whiner in the bunch.
A lot of parents from my generation messed up their kids, but guess what, these parents were raised by GGers so, since you are so eager to play the blame game, who failed whom? All those Xers in uniform, (and I know many of them through my work) were all raised by boomers. How did that happen? Cosmic accident?
I suggest that you focus on taking care of your own house without looking to throw a blanket of blame without the necessary facts, Unknowing. Maybe by the time your kids, if you ever have any, are grown no a-holes from their generation will blame you for Rap, MTV, obscene levels of teen-age pregnancies, internet kiddie porn, muslim call to prayer broadcasts in their towns, the loss of literature, the dearth of church going, the morning after pill as birth control, crack, hooking-up instead of relationships, gay families, gay studies in HS, the death of any civilized culture in America.....
Good luck kid.