Boomer here. I watched it happen, open mouthed, appalled. There was nothing I could do about it at the time.
Neither could Trump at that time by the way. And I am not sure why he's able to do something about it now, but that's the wonderful thing.
Yeah my generation has a lot of fault. But don't say we get too much Social Security. That Ponzi was put in a couple generations earlier by FDR, and it's always best for the first generation, then worse every generation thereafter.