Are Baby Boomers really worse than other generations, or is it just edgy kids complaining about their parents?
Are Baby Boomers really worse than other generations, or is it just edgy kids complaining about their parents?
THE FORMER.
quit generalizing you fat, ugly cunt. there are plenty of baby boomers that realize the situation that most young people are in today. this isn't history or humanities either.
sage
HOW IS GENERATIONAL THEORY NOT "HUMANITIES", ACCORDING TO YOU?
how isn't it history?
The generation of 1940-1960 is history, isn't it?
And sure, not all baby boomers are the same, but there might be certain trends within a generation
Also, I would argue this topic is related to Humanities aswell
They're not particularly better or worse. You're just a bitter cunt with no job.
>Boomers
>generation of subhuman hippies spitting on soldiers returning from Vietnam and calling them baby killers
>40 years later when retired they're all Zionist warmongers who shit on millennials for not wanting to wage more wars for Israel
Hippies were in the minority among boomers. Most boomers were just boring working class stiffs. Same way Sjws are generally in the minority today.
Worse. People like to harp on millennials a but don't realize that the millennials learned all the behavior they're being critizced for from somewhere. Boomers raised millennials and passed the problems their generation caused onto us. Literally the greediest, most fiscally irresponsible generation ever. Everything wrong with the world today is literally born out of their generation.
>inb4 bitter millennial
I am kinda bitter. We wasted our nations undisputed wealth on a dick waving contest with a bunch of commie alcoholics. Except when we won we didn't stop wasting money on making our dicks look huge. I'm going to have to pay into social nets that I'll never recieve when older because Boomer leeches will have run it to the ground before I retire.
Yeah ebil boomers will haunt you to your grave.
>leeches
They worked for their pensions. It wasn't granted to them just like that, they earned them fair and square.
What did YOU earn?
No, actually it's a way documented phenomenon. The neocon movement explicitly started when a bunch of trotskyist leftist scumbags suddenly flipped and became raging neoliberals and zionists.
>An indication of the importance put on the impact of the boomer was the selection by TIME magazine of the Baby Boom Generation as its 1966 "Man of the Year." As Claire Raines points out in Beyond Generation X, "never before in history had youth been so idealized as they were at this moment." When Generation X came along it had much to live up to in according to Raines.[38]
no soldier returning from vietnam was ever physically spat upon
& Humanities was a mistake
>It's the boomers fault their grandkids fell for the college meme
A college education gramps. I paid for that shit.
Also, "earned"
>mismanage the program your fathers set up for you.
>oh shit so many people paid into this and we used the money to buy enough nukes to glass the world 3 times over!
>how are we going to pay people?
>lol let the younger generations fill the gaps while we retire. We fucked this thing so hard they'll never see a dime.
Your lying if you think a single millennial will see a social security payment. I'm going to be paying your retirement my whole life you piece of shit and I won't see a dime of what I put in because you and your generation fucked it
Every generation has all kinds of people.
That said, the American Boomers were a particularly awful generation. Drug usage, discard of the sexual morals by hedonism, destruction of marriage, etc. And they passed those morals to future generations.
baby boomers started modern liberalism and other cancerous idealogies like neoconservatism, they are now butthurt conservatives because they were too stupid to realize what they were doing to the country when they were young, as they expected the world to adhere to their beliefs and never take a step further.
A lie
I'm not a boomer, i'm a millenial just like you.
>I paid for that shit.
Good, as you should.
I like how you just casually push the blame on boomers for arms race like they personally waged Cold War against the Soviets.
Seriously stop complaining. If you don't like how your life is going, improve it. But don't blame your parents for your own failures.
I'm not blaming my parents for my failures. I'm blaming them for my country's failures.
I genuinely believe the boomer hatred is a psyop designed to get millennials and gen xers to eventually kill their grandparents ala mao's cultural revolution in the coming years to save the social security system money.
Then you're an even bigger moron.
Seriously just get a job. Stop leeching off your parents.
can you find any evidence that a soldier was spat upon?
then you're an idiot
I have a job. I'm not leeching of them. And explain how it's wrong to hold boomers accountable for my country's failures? I've only been able to vote for a couple of years, not decades. Your spitting this personal accountability meme like someone as young as me has been voting and deciding who got into elected office for decades
>shilling for the boomers on Veeky Forums
The most pathetic thing I've seen today.
>failures
America is a global power.
America won the Cold War.
America kicks the shit out of anyone who opposes its interests in the world.
"failure"
Stop being so bitter and improve your life. Your parents worked hard so you could shitpost about them on Veeky Forums.
Not shilling though.
Not him, but I think one could make the argument that instead of investing in its children, America used its capital for geopolitical power-play
>investing in its children
But it does.
>America used its capital for geopolitical power-play
And?
And what is America now? A decaying power in a global market clinging onto the last shreds of influence it has. We are the world's laughing stock and our economy is based off of over valued bubbles rather then solid jobs. We could of spent some of that money that we used on nukes to guarantee americas lasting economic prosperity. Now look at us. We will be the fall of The USSR all over again by the end of the century.
>But it does.
Does it though? As far as I am aware, students in America have to pay a lot of money for higher education.
Meanwhile, I can go to University in my country for free
The boomers undid the word of the Greatest Generation by replacing Keynesian with Chicago school economics and putting the oligarchs back into power.
For this they will always be loathed.
Giving your kids enough bombs to end the world 8 times over isn't taking care of them
Christ I bet you think Reagen was the best president ever too
The guy you're replying to is either a troll or so sheltered and filled with r/the_donald's Flavor-Aid that any attempt at argumentation is going to be met with snarky one-liners and "So?"
I'd stop while you still have your blood pressure down.
>shitting on the boomers for literally the only thing they did right
Destroying the USSR with an arms race was a great idea and it's paid huge dividends. Go be a hippie somewhere else.
>And what is America now
The world's largest economy? The world's largest military power?
There's literally nothing wrong in paying for higher education.
We could of done the USSR and the world in with 800 nukes. Why do we need to spend money on an extra 2000 more?
Nukes are a security measure and a reason why others won't fuck with you. You can thank the nukes for not having to die in brutal conventional warfare anymore.
Because if you had 800 nukes they'd build 800 more.
Not him, but...
American education is actually pretty damn subsidized. I'm one semester away from my first degree, and out of pocket I've spent a grand total of $50 on my education, through the help of pell grants and scholarships.
>world's largest economy
For now.
>world's largest military power
Which means less and less as the EU centralizes. We're bleeding money on something that gives us less and less global influence by the year. It will only increase as Trump pushes his proctectionism and continues to alienate allies
The way America pays for higher education is fucked though
>we're free market lol
>but here's some tax breaks for tuition and federally guaranteed student loans because the middle class wants that shit and they vote more than poor people do
>because richfags pay more taxes than poorfags, and spend more money, this means that the federal govenrnment subsidizes richfags more than it does poorfags
>because none of this is based off of merit, middle class babbies use federal bux to go get worthless degrees at diploma mills
>because colleges depend entirely on attracting customers to stay in business, they pander to trends like SJWs and safe spaces, and make the classes as easy as they can
>because the federal government has pumped trillions of dollars into increasing the supply of college degrees, and the demand hasn't kept up, college degrees lose most of their value, and people without college degrees become trapped in poverty
>the generation of arrogant retards that come out of this fucked system proceed to fuck up society as a whole
And this is boomers fault how?
>there's literally nothing wrong with paying for higher education
Then why didn't the boomers do it?
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So? They'd be dead and we'd be extra dead? We'd both still be dead
>We could of done the USSR and the world in with 800 nukes
>implying 100% warhead reliability
>implying 100% targeting reliability
>implying some of the launch systems won't get nuked
>implying you don't need to expend warheads taking out their silos
The university problem is split between humanities universities squeezing dosh out of idiots with no idea what they want to major in, and STEM/research universities turning into patent and grant sweatshops hanging a carrot made of money over the noses of their thousands of lab donkeys.
Last time I checked, millennials aren't holding the reins of power in government right now. Boomers have made policy decisions for the last few decades. Why not hold them responsible for the policy of the decisions of the people they elected now and in the past?
But they did.
Do you seriously think America would allow itself to lag behind USSR in nuclear stockpile?
This is the kind of shit that happens when you treat education as a product rather than a public service.
several things:
1) it is the largest generation of human beings in history. this generation of ours is smaller than them.
this has several implications which follow
2) the most wasteful generation in history (only in the West) caused from their sheer numbers alone and because post-WWII saw the triumph of consumer capitalism, and this REQUIRED the production an unimaginable waste to feed people's appetites for material objects. The huge increase in material objects sustained (and created) an ideology of materialism linked to emotional fulfillment. Houses and the furniture and appliances to fill them, cars and the gadgets to sustain and enhance them and stable jobs to pay for all this nonsense became the theme of the age. This pattern of consumption had existed since the 19th century but the appetites grew enormously.
3) the ideas and thoughts and beliefs of this largest generation, because of its size and increased longevity, will continue to exert its influence on subsequent generations so long as it lives. I'm not talking about the intellectual ideas produced, but the ideologies of consumerism, hard work, the insistence on unrealistic and unsustainable standards and aspirations that arose in the context of a totally different economic context.
4) their implicit belief that they are a providential, chosen generation who are better than those before and after. see: the idiotic countercultural ideals of the 1960s. the keyword is "counterculture". it didn't seek to correct economic and social injustices (even though these buzzwords and slogans were paid lipservice) but were more about throwing the weight of their numbers around to demoralize their elders and to get into positions of power for themselves. The individualist ideology was never questioned and that is why all the so-called "youth rebellions" and the counterrevolutions launched against it were never sustained cont.
>hurr its the ebil boomers keeping me down
Then go into politics. Change something. Don't just stand idly and complain.
I swear you can just copy/paste this same victim complex on every other group you dislike, it's so stupid.
Please see Do we need to kill every last Russian? Are reds roaches that will repopulstebthe earth and destroy our freedom
>Then go into politics
Sorry, I don't have millions of dollars on hand, and I don't have the corporate contacts to get millions of dollars to fund my campaign.
>go into politics
I actually plan on that user. 2018 is still a bit away though
Look up the concepts of counter force and counter value strikes user. In nuclear warefare the person that strikes first often has the advantage. The more nukes you have over your opponent gives you an advantage.
>Equal nukes (Assuming USSR first strike)
>USSR fires
>Hits military targets to destroy nuclear capability
>US capability is weakened
>USSR can survive the countervalue response
>USSR victory
> USA has more nukes
>USSR knows that they cant damage the USA enough to stop a good countervalue attack
>Nobody gets nuked
This is all simply put though
If trump can become president with a Twitter account surely you can at least become a representative with one
>nuclear war will kill everything
No, it'll just kill a couple hundred million people.
If the world ends, you'll still have to go to work in the morning, and it will be significantly less pleasant to do if the reds have exterminated your country because you lost the nuclear war.
Also, Reagan didn't hike the number of nuclear warheads, Ike did.
Trump started with exponentially more money than me, and got much more as he leeched off his inheritance and enacted his predatory real estate policies. I don't have a billionaire father to do all the heavy lifting for me, and I certainly don't have enough starting money to start overpricing shitty apartments to middle-class people.
the era of mass social movements of the left OR the right were gone. Street politics hasn't existed since the 1930s. this is because
5) the economic and social control exerted by the baby boomers and which they will continue to exert. massively improved communications, improved infrastructure and increase of bureaucracies has made our states the most powerful and all-controlling in history. this eliminates revolt or serious protest of any kind. any protest nowadays is guarded by police and any disorder in a protest crushed by them. the threat of violence eliminated makes mass collective action all but impossible, unless the organs of the state become demoralized in and of themselves, as happened in eastern europe and the ussr in the late 80s/early 90s. Boomers control the state and are on top of the hierarchy everywhere, and they will continue to control it to their dying breath, as medical standards are increasing lifespans and the quality of those life spans (mental acuity of old age will only improve).
in the private sector, Post WWII has seen the rise of the all-powerful corporation alongside the state. they are rivals and partners. corporations seek to bend the state to their will and make it do its bidding. A state with self-esteem in its own power will seek to do the opposite and control corporations as an expression of its power and monopoly of the bounded territory over which it rules. corporations, however, are perhaps more powerful than states nowadays, given their use of the Neoliberal meme to install pliant politicians into positions of power, and get these politicians to open borders to allow them to move their capital and their plants ANYWHERE in the world where its cheap or the return on investment is high. This makes corporations multinational, and multinational corporations can play states against eachother to pursue their own profit motives. cont.
these corporations are something like decentralized, amorphous mercantile empires with no one base of operation but the sum of its many operation chains and corporate bureaucracies scattered in this 3rd world country or that, this international city or that, or this caribbean tax haven or that. They are predatory organisms that feed off the state-system and have transcended it. They are dictatorships in all but name. They are unaccountable, opaque, inscrutable, hierarchical, undemocratic, arbitrary in their employment standards and carry near ultimate disciplinary power over any underling in the company. People live and die as slaves of the corporation. They ruthlessly compete to meet some unknown standards of their higher-ups. In other case, its a nepotistic operation.
What are your positions?
>They worked for their pensions. It wasn't granted to them just like that, they earned them fair and square.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH
you fucking idiot. you realize that no corporations offer pensions anymore? and you know the reason why? Because corporations stopped giving a shit about their workers and started cutting them in the 1970s and never brought them back because it cost too much money. And you call millennials entitled? fuck you you dumb cunt
Promoting more efficient and less overbearing government. I want to run for my state house so there are very few major policy decisions that I can take that will have an actual effect on my district.
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>Promoting more efficient and less overbearing government
nice meaningless slogan, what are your positions
Thats pretty broad,user. Can you elaborate on your positions please?
while you're hypothesis is dumb, i agree there is something contrived about this whole "baby boomer-millennial debate." It came out of fucking nowhere a few years ago (i suppose when "millennials" came of age), and is becoming a kind of artificial divide that in my mind never existed before. I think its just a marketing scheme so that "millennials", in a bid to differentiate themselves from their parents, will latch onto a new set of fashions, attitudes and most importantly consumer items to shill their philosophy, just like their older generation did before them.
>But it does.
you might want to look at american education statistics....
>And?
ok, so now we've established your a willfully blind fool. all you need to do is read a fucking history book or two to understand that the cost of global hegemony has always been neglecting one's own people. Have you ever heard of "guns or butter." Ever realized why the Eastern Empire surpassed the Western part of the Roman Empire? Why Spain became a shithole after spending the sum of its New World gold and silver on endless warfare? Why the Russian Empire stagnated and then collapsed? The cost of military glory and expansion is always decline in your core provinces.
> you're
>Just be successful bro
>Who needs to worry about debt and floundering social programs?
>Who needs basic economics?
>Who needs a job anymore?
>Just try harder and you'll get rich easy dude
Kill yourself
Why can't American state resist thouse international corporations? Why not force them to accept more consumer rights, morker rights?
Kinda like the EU does
1. I live in a really touristy state. Homelessness is a huge problem. The de facto stance to homelessness that many local governments take is that they just straight jail homeless people and sometimes buy them a ticket out of town. They also don't allow private charities to provide food or medical services to them as well as limiting shelters. Now this isn't working and anyone can tell by the still multitudes begging in the streets. It's also really costly. I'd like to allow private organizations like charities and churches to take care of homeless people and make it easier for them to do so as to stop costing tax payer dollars. Local governments can still give bus tickets to them if they want but jailing is a waste of taxpayer dollars.
2. Id like to make blue collar jobs and skilled trades more noted to high schoolers. My state suffers from a lack of skilled workers. Workers that are needed for construction projects in touristy areas. I would like to have some events at schools in my state to bring awareness to skilled trade jobs, the money in them, etc. it might even attract investment from outside if it works in getting kids interested.
3. Work to contrast land development and conservation. Being a tourist driven state, natural resources are important and need to be preserved but at the same time land is still needed as the state is growing.
I'm working on it as I go. I can list a few more later if you'd like.
>expecting grammar on an malawian albino elephant spotting forum
>Forget about [argument], just pick yourself up by your bootstraps
Because mass media has brainwashed a large part of the US population into acting as client mobs for the fortune 500.
So mass media is owned by the large corporations aswell, right?
What about internet then? Getting informations over alternative channels?
Do me a favor and do the following things to urban planning
>create "you niggers are going to have to walk now" zones in the centers of cities
>inside said zones, eliminate minimum parking space requirements in the zoning codes
>make property taxes inversely proportional to floor space/parcel size ratio
>mixed used zoning fucking everywhere
>put in a metro of some kind, be it cable cars or subways
>big-ass, comfy-ass sidewalks
t. /n/ lurker
Also, if you need a policy guy, I've been looking to get into government and I have a ton of spare time to piss away over the next couple months.
Typical idiot selfish boomer shill.
>You don't like X, this means something about you personally and your experiences!
>You dislike Somalia? Obviously you got raped by a Somali and you're just mad.
Boomers and women literally think everything is about them and can't even comprehend that people would be concerned with things they aren't affected by personally. It's like your subhuman brain is wired that way, ME ME ME attitude.
The thing about propaganda is that it doesn't have to completely seal people away from the truth, it just has to displace the truth with lies.
The good news is that less people are relying on cable news for their news, the bad news is that they're replacing it with partisan bubbles like Vox or Breitbart.
Also, the people running this country have gotten very good at distracting people with wedge issues and identity politics
>you want to keep Glass-Steagal? I bet you're one of those faggots who wants men in my little girls bathroom
>you don't support Hillary? You racist cis-white male
Just reading about the Glass-Steagal Act.
Sounds like a really good law to me. Shame you Americans removed it, otherways maybe there wouldn't have been any crisis in 2008
Can it be both?
Yeah they're pretty shit, the worst example was my aunt and uncle. They moved to the US during the 70s and did well there. My uncle worked as an engineer for boeing and my great aunt was a doctor. When they both retired they first moved to Florida until they both hit their 80s and moved back to the Netherlands in the early 2000s. my great uncle died in 2012 at the ripe old age of 93. Just last week my great aunt died at the age of 92.
They lived in a pretty fancy private retirement home with lots of staff (no sitting around in a dirty diaper for them) and lived a pretty luxurious life (vacations every three months etc.). We assumed that they must be pretty loaded. And since my mother was the only heir to their estate we were pretty stoked.
Now comes the twist. We got a call from a former colleague of my great uncle saying that they had nothing but debt and that we should be careful with accepting responsibility for the inheritance. My mother did some checking around and it turns out that they both had extensive medical bills from their time in Florida amounting to more then 750k. They never even made a single payment towards this debt. The reason they even left the US might very well have to do with them trying to escape their medical bills.
They also have a whole load of credit cards that they used to pay for their living expenses and the retirement home in the Netherlands. The total debt of the estate amounts to something in the neighbourhood of 1.5 million euro.
So. Luckily we dodged the bullet with that one. Shame is that some cool furniture, like a umbrella stand made out of an elephants foot, will be lost to the state now since the Dutch IRS has already claimed and sealed their estate.
good question. Trump is entirely bullshitting when he says that nations take advantage of the US. The US keeps world peace not only through the threat and use of force, but because it gives its allies unfettered access to sell things in its gigantic, rich domestic market. It buys other country's loyalty in this way, and the result is that foreign competitors who hone the entire resources of their nations, with government protection, to compete for the American market (for example, Japan in the 1980s, Korean and other Asian products nowadays), thereby putting American firms with no such support out of business. Another facet of this is that the US as hegemon "buys" the support of its allies by providing them military protection. We provide most of the military defense of the Gulf States and a hefty amount for the EU countries and Japan. We have bases to upkeep all over the world. This not only costs a shit ton for the American consumer (though tbf, everyone benefits from world peace) but it also empowers the infamous American military-industrial complex, which builds the arms and supplies that maintain american hegemony. These are international corporations in their own right, and their huge influence in the US government means they get huge subsidies and they use their clout to fill defense contracts all over the world.
Not, more relevant, is that the EU and the US have different traditions. EU countries have always have stronger statist traditions, i.e. deference to the institution of the state to enforce its will and more faith in the ability of the state to create a harmonious society with regulations. This idea has its proponents in the US but the tradition has never been as strong and equally important the tradition has been eroded by an ideological and political attack on the statist tradition for benefit of untethering corporations from regulations that hold back their profits.
cont.
I would disagree entirely. I am also an American student, raised in a solidly middle class family, even in the top 20% of income earners. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean much. My father may have earned about $120,000/yr, but cost of attendance is $60,000/yr for private schools and they will not award need-based aid for a person like me. So I attended a state school, and I'm not complaining. I don't believe private schools would have given me a better education. But the cost of attendance is still $20,000/yr for a state school. That's hard to find out of pocket, especially if your parents just divorced and your father had to get a new house and pay alimony. When I asked my school's financial aid office about what family income qualifies a student for need-based aid, they said you'd have to be earning less than $40,000/yr. Even with a two-income household! That's far from being pretty damn subsidized.
I am very lucky, and very grateful, that I started life with a small sliver spoon. So I get to start my career with $0 in the bank instead of -$30,000 like the average person my age. Even though I got out okay, that doesn't stop me from realizing there is a big problem with the system. I even got a massive scholarship thanks to hard work in high school and barely made it out. The system should not be judged on whether fringe cases like you or me can make it out okay, it should be judged by whether the average student with average academic ability from an average economic background can make it out okay, and the fact of the matter is: they're not.
Jew harder
>go to community college with transfer agreements with the state schools
>get a high enough GPA to get a guaranteed slot
>pay 5k a year for the first two years, 10k a year for the last two
>30k with absolutely no financial aid of any kind
>jobs don't come with pensions
Is America really that bad, even African villages will give pensions to the elders, and they're still cannibals and slavers
>it is the largest generation of human beings in history.
bull fucking shit
>community college
Good idea. More people are picking up on this concept. But it's still not the norm, and high schoolers are not always introduced to this as a possibility. Therefore, you must be either lucky to have good parents or lucky to have good teachers to know about this trick. And unless you live in Tennessee, this still has a cost of several thousand dollars, as you've noted. That's not going to come out of thin air.
>pay 10k for the last two years
Sure, if you're paying for only tuition, not cost of attendance. Implicit in the community college suggestion is to stay with parents, which is fine, and it covers your rent and food. But at a university, you will still pay for room and board, which adds another 10k/yr easily. That's where the 20k/yr figure comes from.
Pell Grants can help cover this. I had a poor girlfriend, raised on food stamps, stayed with her single mom all four years of college and helped raise her younger siblings — she got school free and bought a (used, old) car with her Pell Grant. That's perfectly fine with me. She was smart with her money, and she needed a car to drive to school, making it an educational expense. But another friend I had didn't have quite such an unfortunate background, so didn't get any federal aid. And yet, she was not as fortunate as me with parents who could pay for her school. So she graduated after accruing the normal amount of debt, which is a crippling amount. If you start middle-middle class, higher education can actually set you back further than if you start poor. That's ludicrous, and shows that there are real problems of cost (even if you do everything right, unlikely for an 18 year old) and our definitions of what qualifies as "need."
>the b-b-baby boomers did nothing w-w-wrong!
Spoken like a true idiot.
Baby boomers are worse. Instead of meme answers like "they destroyed our morals" I'll redirect you to real answers:
>voted overwhelmingly for neoliberal economic policies (Reagan), ignoring that we did away with LIBERAL economic policies for a reason
>have so far denied climate change, something that will (if it's real) destroy the earth and (if it's not) use up some money, a big gamble
>reelected Bush after he responded catastrophically poorly to Katrina and after he started a literal hoax war
>failed to do ANYTHING about college costs, from making them all free, to reigning in university spending, to adding more oversight, literally anything
>elected two movie/TV personalities to the presidency within 40 years of each other instead of at least real politicians
>never have I seen a self-reflection "what's wrong with baby boomers" piece, though the negative millennial analysis has risen to meme levels
The personality of the baby boomer is to ignore problems, whether that means to actively deny them or simply to fail to act against them. I do not know what has given their generation such a psychological abnormality. I cannot recall a time or a people in history who have made so little effort to rise to the occasion.
isn't the significant growth in the population the cause of this rather than baby boomers?
That user isn't pointing out stagnating wages, he's pointing out unnaturally increasing housing prices. Normally a crash would readjust housing prices, but they do not, because baby boomer policies mandate that housing prices continually rise. This does, however, make the barrier to entry for younger folk much higher.
Just curious, who was the other movie/TV personality other than DT? Not an ameriburger.
I agree largely with you, btw. Your country's apparent lack of what it means to provide education - to provide people with a future - makes me kek out loud. What kind of education leaves a young man $100,000 in debt? Probably not even a very good one, most Americans might say. Probably an 'adequate' school. And that's without addressing the real-world fact that it restricts his ability to travel and learn as young people should.
I am probably more conservative in nearly everything, but I cannot abide by not having large (at the very least, large) government subsidy or oversight to bring down the cost to be comparable to other countries.
Ronald Reagan was famous for acting alongside Marilyn Monroe. It added to his "everyman" charm, which basically gave him carte blanche to enact whatever retarded economic policies he wanted.
Are you fucking stupid? Look at a population chart and tell me the period the population jumps from 2 billion to seven billion. Anyway im talking about the wester pop. cohort
The problem isn't government subsidies.
In between tax breaks and federally guaranteed student loans, American education is hugely subsidized.
It's that the subsidies are intended first and foremost to benefit corporate interests, win middle class voters, and appear to be "free market"
>It came out of fucking nowhere a few years ago
Wrong