Evidently I shouldn't expect anything from your generation after reading this thread. Unfortunately after working since age 16, working every Republican candidate since Nixon, and raising a child on my own, I would have thought RESPECT would have been a given.
But don't expect my generation as a whole to respect your generation as a whole after being handed a multi-trillion dollar debt, a decadent moral system and collapsing culture, and a plague of broken homes and slaughtered infants. You had a fine party, running up a debt that you had no intention of paying back before passing it onto those of your heirs that you didn't slaughter in the womb, and you want our respect for that?
And please don't cite the Cold War as an excuse for the national debt. It was the Great Society that ran up the bill, not the the well-placed military expenditures.
Do not think that we owe you (and again, "you" is in the plural, directed to the Boomers as a whole, not you personally) respect for the above or a free lunch via the corrupt Social Security system (which YOUR generation looted) at the sacrifice of our childrens' prosperity and freedom. If your generation really wants the respect of its children, it'll sacrifice to fix its own problems instead of foisting them on us.