Oh, puh-leeze. The "Greatest" Generation originated some of our biggest and most deeply entrenched Big Government programs (e.g. Social Security).
And keep demanding that they keep getting more and more.
And they spawned the hippies.
Agreed...the "Greatest Generation" has the distinct pleasure of having endured the worst while creating the best (the American Dream). Yet, if you look at them today, they are most certainly the ones who have benefited the absolute most, the likes we shall never see again. They had the luxury of contributing to social security the least (pennies on the dollar) while reaping the ever increasing (via COLA and increases of vote pandering) benefits. All the while, medical industry laboring to improve, innovate, and extend their lives through new surgeries, techniques, medicines and therapies. Their cost for all of this? NADA! Why it's on the backs of you and me and our progeny.....Our prospects? Good if you are selfish enough to continue passing on the slavish costs to our heirs.....