If you look at the time period these Greatest Generationers (GGs) lived, you must have some kind of amazement in them, no? Many were born around or just after the trauma of WWI, influenza (1917) a boom, lived through a bust economy, WWII, a Cold War and trying to put America back on the civilian consumer track via their GI Bills. They did a heck of a lot, no? Moreover, they did not GRIPE ABOUT IT.
No doubt the GGs paved the way for many of today's ills but they did so much as compared to us, the spoon fed, “me” generation. The “me” generation paved the way for the iPhone and comfort technologies and information at your fingertips...in order to do what? Gain information and...SHOP.
The U.S. didn't even have a "Baby Boomer" in the White House until 1992. The very first Baby Boomers (I'll use 1946 as the year to define this) weren't even eligible to serve in the House of Representatives until 1971. They couldn't serve in the U.S. Senate until 1976. The "Greatest Generation" didn't lose its dominant place in U.S. politics until the 1980s.
I don't belong to either generation, so it doesn't matter to me in the long run. But to think this country was fouled up by the Boomers is really laughable.