"*sigh* sad to say the boomers were handed the world on a silver platter and when we look around today we see the smoldering remnants of what the greatest generation and their parents (the depression era folks) worked so hard to build."How can one call the greatest generation great if they weren't competent enough to perform even the basic function performed for thousands of years ... raise children.
I'm a boomer and I'm educated and successful. I have raised four children all of whom have graduate degrees and are very successful. Everyone I know and run with are boomers with the same approximate level of success as myself.
My parents, the greatest generation might have beat back Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito, but they folded like a cheap suit when they returned home after the war and it came time to defend the very freedoms they defended overseas, the Greatest Generation turned out to be generally resistant or mute to the "all men were created equal" portion of our heritage. It was the boomers that steadfastly broke through those barriers.
This entire article sounds like typical liberal rants of I didn't get enough of momma's teat, so I blame myself. There's nothing wrong with boomers. We did what all parents want of their children; we performed well and moved up the food chain.
My mother is still alive at 96 and she doesn't yearn for the past at all.