Time today is short and I'd just like to say this:

The notion of baby boomers being spoiled and coddled is nothing but a myth that's bandied about in the media by those who have spun postwar prosperity, rising numbers receiving post-secondary education, and a plethora of societal shifts (the rise of TV, the advent of reliable contraception, the quest for equal rights for all citizens regardless of race, gender, and sexual orientation) into a fantasy that those born over nearly two decades (George W. Bush on the one end, Obama on the other) are a monolithic group of the greedy and the indulged.

Nothing could be sillier or more untruthful. The generation that brought up the baby boom came out of the Great Depression and the Second World War, and was duly confronted by the Cold War. Their own parents and grandparents were born in the 19th century, and Victorian attitudes cast a surprisingly long shadow over the 20th century.