Stretch Here: The Old Geezer... You got a wrong idea of the guys who fought in WW2. We were the products of the greatest depression in history.... wages from 5 cents to 15 cents an hour.... if you could find a job. small farmers so poor that they couldn't feed their horses enough food to give them the strength to pull a plow; or a cow so starved that she couldn't give but a cup of milk a day. kids wearing the same clothes to work the fields, clean the horse -s8672, wear to school or church... Soldiers and sailors entering the war for a salary of only7 $21.00 per month. When theyy came home we gave them the GI bill to allow some, who had the education, to go to college fsree... to allow them to buy a home at a reduced interest rate, if one could afford to make the payments. Most of these guys are now in our 80's.... many never having made a salary of over 6 or 7 dollars an hour for all the years they worked. Wages were still low in the 70's. I know, that in my trade the union wage reached $5.00 an hour in 70.
YOU ARE critizing the wrong generation, buddy...Many, many vy age with a family never retired with anything more than a cheap house and a used car to show for their lifetime of work. Small town America held many back.... no opportunities.... Why did some make it big and others never getting ahead?? lack of a decent education; poor schooling in their early years; quitting school in their early teens to help on the farm..... many, many things
Basically, the "greatest generation" is part of the most massive wealth transfer in the history of the world - from the working young to the retired old. But seniors vote and politicians wanr to buy your votes. Doesn't quit live up to the "milking cows for the pay of the milk" image...