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Re: A Love Letter from Garden Gnome, or Why I Hate the Baby Boomers

"And while you were off being a yuppie, you neglected to pay off your very cheap and highly subsidized student loans. Because of this, Generation X and Y have had to sign on to expensive and draconian loans costing us tens of thousands of dollars in interest in order to go to college, all at a time when college tuition was skyrocketing."

Wrong--in the 1970's, BEFORE the republican legislation came in to penalize and privatize student loans, the bankruptcy rate was less than 1%. There are no 'loan delinquents' to blame for the current situation, but since you apparently want to turn on your fellow borrowers instead of targeting the right wing legislation, clearly you will change nothing.

Otherwise, the parents of the baby boomers were disgusting right wingers who abused their children so much that they could only go on to create a world like the one we have now. How pathetic that you claim to rail against your parents but spare your grandparents, who made them what they are through physical, sexual, emotional abuse and neglect. Boys, in fact, were always victims of this abuse to a much greater extent, something which you completely ignore in this bizzare combination of prejudices.

You even buy the LIE that social security is in danger and needs to be privatized! Idiot! Obama is Clinton.
 
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Re: Re: A Love Letter from Garden Gnome, or Why I Hate the Baby Boomers

The Republicans screwed over everyone on student loans because they wanted recent graduates to have to immediately start working and not have time for the political activism/shenanigans that characterized the hippy generation. They are the ones to blame, not 'defaulting' yuppy borrowers.
 

Re: Re: A Love Letter from Garden Gnome, or Why I Hate the Baby Boomers

Um, social security is in danger, but mostly because it has been raided over the years by our government. And NO, I don't buy that privitization is the only way to save it, nor did I write that. RTFA.

As far as the parents of baby boomers all being right-wingers, if that is so, than why did some of the greatest examples of welfare capitalism and entitlement programs have their birth under their watch?

Furthermore, your assertion about the parents of the baby boomers having "made them what they are through physical, sexual, emotional abuse and neglect," is a bizarre combination of prejudices, as it were. There is no evidence to suggest that abuse of any kind was more prevalent in previous eras than it is today. The only difference between now and then is that we now talk about abuse in public and make meager efforts as a society to combat it. Some people even think that there is more abuse today than there was in previous times. This of course, is also untrue.

Your claim that "Boys, in fact, were always victims of this abuse to a much greater extent", makes me think that you are some kind of weird leftist/men's rights activist hybrid. I hate child abuse as much as the next person, but I also hate "DEAR GOD< WHAT ABOUT THE MEN??!!??!" arguments with equal passion.
 

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