Boehner Jams

As I sat watching our President essentially beg our other elected officials not to let our Country go into default I had two thoughts: 1.) What the Christ happened to the Mighty USA and, 2.) I'll tell you exactly what happened to the Mighty USA.

My generation is a complete mess. The Country's most important resource - a young, educated and ambitious workforce - is utterly fucked. After going to college and law school, I owe the federal government and private lenders somewhere around $190,000. Now, granted, I voluntarily signed each and every loan application but college is the new high school. If you want any kind of decent job, you have to go. It stands to reason then, that graduate schools are the new college. If you want to be successful, that's what you do.

Unfortunately, college is not free like, say, public high school was for our parents (taxes aside), and graduate schools are definitely not free. So, Mr. Clean-cut Young and Excited High School Senior, you want to go far? Just sign right here.

Fast-forward to present day, and you have an entire economic demographic struggling to make ends meet as it works crazy ass jobs, lives in expensive cities, pays off its student loans and, you know, eat and drink and stuff. Take me, as a for instance. Before I pay rent each month, I pay approximately $1,000 to citibank. A month. I can't remember the last time I bought a new record. Or shirt. Or movie.

I can't even afford a shitty certified pre-owned car, let alone a new one. And forget about home ownership. It's not happening any time soon. This is why we're fucked. No one is buying anything. They're just paying for shit they already have. I have two friends who own homes. One is a successful dude in finance and the other lives in Texas, so that doesn't count. That's it. By the time my parents and all their friends were my age, they owned a house and had at least one child. We are so far behind the eight ball, and such a big piece of the traditional consumer pie that it's screwing everything up.

So, rather than posture on my television about nonsense, why not take an actual look at what is happening and offer actual solutions. Spending cuts, tax breaks and whatever other buzzwords you're talking about are just smoke and mirrors. You have a huge base of potential consumers for anything they can possibly imagine, but we are suffocating under the weight of having to educate ourselves. Its an untenable situation. The cost keeps rising, but no one is better educated or better compensated for it.

I don't want my debt forgiven, but just acknowledge the fact that I am screwed from here til Tuesday and talk to me about fixing that. Don't tell me that you've got news for me, Mr. Boehner. I've got fucking news for you.