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To quote a brilliant FReeper regarding the Boomer’s Parents...

“There’s a reason a communist like Rather would call our predecessors “The Greatest Generation,” and it’s not WWII. They bought the “it’s natural” story from Kinsey and tolerated the sexual revulsion. {Some} parents had five divorces between them, wasting what they might have left us on lawyers. They bought what they needed all on a credit card the interest on which was tax deductible. They borrowed for the Great Society, they borrowed to send us to college, and they expected us to pay for their retirement and medical care while ALSO paying for day care because they wouldn’t help with our young children while we were working two jobs to pay for their cushy entitlements. We buy artificial hips, scooter chairs, and nursing care, and still it isn’t enough. We paid inflated prices for housing because they wanted to keep their empty palaces and didn’t want to join an integral family.”

Slamming the boomers? Where did they learn it from?
For anyone born during “Camelot”, there is lots of blame to go around.

Yes, it was the so-called Greatest Generation (and their parents) who put into place the Great Society entitlements and the expansion of the federal government that has brought us to the brink of public bankruptcy. All Boomers were too young to vote when Medicare and Medicaid, were enacted.

Your brilliant Freeper isn’t all that brilliant.

“They bought the “it’s natural” story from Kinsey and tolerated the sexual revulsion.”

I assume that’s ‘sexual revolution’. The sexual revolution began with the contraceptive pill in 1962, not the Kinsey reports of 1948 and 1953. And it definitely wasn’t embraced by the generation that was married and raising families at the time.

“{Some} parents had five divorces between them, wasting what they might have left us on lawyers. “

Kids from divorced families were a rarity in my grade school classes of the late 50s early 60s , rare enough that you knew who they were.

“They bought what they needed all on a credit card the interest on which was tax deductible.”

Boomer’s parents had charge cards that required full payment monthly, not credit cards. They bought on lay-away or using a revolving credit line from a local merchant. Credit cards as we know them were created in 1966.

“They borrowed for the Great Society, they borrowed to send us to college, and they expected us to pay for their retirement and medical care while ALSO paying for day care because they wouldn’t help with our young children while we were working two jobs to pay for their cushy entitlements”

Those sound like the personal failings of your friend’s family rather than a valid indictment of the WWII generation. My parents used their savings for my sister’s college. They worked and saved for their own retirement. They took care of their own elderly parents. They took care of my sister’s young children.

If there’s any people I know who do not feel entitled it’s my parents and what’s left of their friends at 90.