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[NNadir]

46. Well as a boomer myself...

...I find this response sort of typical of what we can expect, placing us in the category of the Boomer-in-Chief, the self congratulating toilet paper depletion expert.

Let's see...um...oh yes...

Millennials with a B.A. on the average make 100,000 +per year. No they are not all saddled with debt they can not pay, though millennials’ main debt is credit card. Expanding forgiveness programs, getting them functional, discharging in bankruptcy and other interventions aside from paying everyone’s college debt, can go a long way to lifting the burden where needed.

Just say "there's no problem" by making something up...and boom...boom...boomer...we're in magic land.

You know, my son, aged 20, is a materials science engineering student at a very good university." The sticker price on his education approximates a quarter of a million dollars, maybe a little more when you add incidentals like books and fees.

Now because of his outstanding grades in high school - he is by the way much smarter than I am and certainly much smarter than 90% of the boomers here who risk injuring themselves and needing rotator cuff surgery because of agressively patting themselves on the back for how wonderful we are - the University made him a very generous offer filled with impressive grants, but no, it wasn't all covered. Now, as it happens, except for one course that is required and is only offered in a spring semester, he will have enough credits to graduate in 3 years, not four. I

So before starting, and before deciding which school to attend, he took out a small loan at a bank, and we sat down, calculated the likely payments after 4 years, and then looked up the expected starting salary for his work.

It wasn't, um, $100,000 year. It was $61,000 mean.

Now the engineering students who didn't get grants on the scale he received could be looking at a quarter million dollars in debt. For engineers...

Engineers are people who make the world work. Imagine starting your career, after four grueling years of intense study in a world where a small house might cost $300,000 and a decent car $20,000, and looking at that kind of debt.

Really did any of us baby boomer assholes look at that kind of thing, school debts the equivalent of a house?

Now mind you, there are some privileged children who are in the Ivanka class, and will have Daddies and Mommies with connections to bring them into MBA land and work in the family tradition of living being paid huge sums for shuffling papers and screwing the shit out of everyone else.

When you make these assertions, I have the distinct impression that you're mimicing another baby boomer person talking about a subject he knows nothing about.

To wit:

Trump assured Americans at that February 26 news conference that the number of people infected in the United States is "going very substantially down, not up." Trump even bragged about the 15 cases at the time on US soil, claiming that "the 15, within a couple of days, is going to be down to close to zero."

God forbid we should think anything unpleasant about reality, and if someone tries to the force the issue, we'll simply make up an ersatz fact with no reference, no support, and insist it's true.

Now, these kids will write the history of our generation. Since they are smarter than we are, more highly analytical, deeper, and more profound they're not going to listen to our excuses, including excuses about putative stolen elections. If we were a decent generation it wouldn't have been close enough to steal.

Of all the Presidents you listed claiming we elected them, one one truly rose to a level of greatness; that would be President Obama. He was elected, in my opinion not because of baby boomers, but because he inspired another long unjustly denigrated demographic, African Americans, another time they saved our asses.

President Clinton was a reasonably good President, but in typical "Sex, drugs and Rock and Roll" fashion, he squandered his legacy on a dalliance with a 19 year old woman when he knew that the vicious baby boomer Republicans, Newt Gingrich and that ilk, were gunning for his ass on exactly that score, dalliances with women.

He would have served his country better by keeping his pants on.

Jimmy Carter was a good man, particularly after leaving office, but you know, that Baby Boomer thirst for our cars made gasoline a big issue, hence while speaking of human rights, he kissed up to Reza Pahlavi, the "Shah," who's Savak police were torturing people literally to death.

Al Gore, correctly drew our attention to Climate Change, and perhaps suffered for the hype about the dalliance, but frankly his putative solutions to the problem, so called "renewable energy" have not worked, are not working and won't work, baby boomer affection for them notwithstanding.

And let's face it, because we did very little to correct a culture that commoditized women based on their looks on one hand, and demonized women of high intelligence, we bear responsibility for the 2016 election.

I remind you, with whatever respect you may be due, that the child caging beast in the White House, the avatar of arrogance, contempt, and the celebration and promotion of ignorance and lies has his highest level of support among people born before 1955.

Last night my millennial son was in his room, in conference with his colleagues discussing how they might advance their project - the development of sustainable, cheap, easy to use HIV tests that could be freely distributed in the third world - when their campus is shut because an orange baby boomer, like the rest of our generation, wasn't paying fucking attention.

Again, those kids, doing that, they will write our history. Since they are very smart, very alive, very aware, and since they will have hell to pay for what we and not they have done, it is very unlikely they will forgive us. They shouldn't. Dripping with contempt for them as we do all over this website, contempt for our future I can understand why they're disengaged from our stupid spin or reality.

An no, that old tired senile screw ball in his Che Guevara tee shirt might think he can claim to speak for them, but like the rest of us, he's just clueless.

Have a nice evening.