Reply #29: I agree that many of that era have a well extended sense of entitlement that ran up some tabs [View All]

[havocmom]

Many deserved every bit of help they could get after that war, but too many forgot that help as they built upon the benefits they were given.

A psychologist pal of mine insisted the Korean War generation were even worse, because they had a deep seated sense of guilt for not having had to make the grand and necessary sacrifices of the Greatest Generation. He said THEIR sense of entitlement, which was part self doubt and part hopes of hanging onto older brothers' coat tails and getting sweet deals was worse yet.

Now, I have noticed what he said, but I refuse to label/liable whole generations. I have known some really generous humanitarians from both those generations, just like all generations. But boy, I get tired of being attacked for being a spoiled boomer who used everything up and now expects the Gen-X-ers and Millenniums to keep me in my old age. I was born poor, worked hard (and ethically) all my life and will die poor. No matter how little I had, I shared it. And I am not the only one.