Careful with the over simplified generalizations gents. I'm a boomer and waited two years past full rate to retire. I'd been working since I was 15.
Our son's an Eagle Scout and an electrician. Our daughter (no pics, don't ask) put herself through college with some help from us.
Both of them were disadvantaged in that we earned too much to have them get any financial assistance for going to college.
I don't think either one of them feels entitled in any way.
As to the "Greatest Generation" one could say that they were a bunch of self-indulgent drunks who fled the cities, created urban blight, joined unions that corrupted our political system, bankrolled institutions that squeezed corporations to produce higher dividends that made them careless in their investments, created the disposable consumer goods market, scorned recycling, filled countless landfills with heaps of trash, used DDT, polluted the air with lead gasoline and lead paint, and filled our waters with phosphates that created unchecked eutrophication. Now pardon me while I apologize to my mother who is still alive at age 91. My father and uncles who were members of that generation and partook in many of those activities are long gone.
On a more sober note, I think Daniel Patrick Moynihan was perhaps the last great Senator. No one has had the guts to follow up with the work that he did to stabilize SS. They just kicked the can down the road. And so it goes.
You're really, really right about that.