If you were born between the years of 1980-2000 let me be the first (not really) to congratulate you on how you being born is destroying our country. Being born during any part of that twenty-year gap makes you something that leaves a bad taste in the mouths of the past generations (cue the dramatic music and lower the lights...) a millennial. I myself am a millennial and I would bet the $10 I have in my bank account (Well, $5 because I am going to Taco bell after this) that anyone who has anything to do with this cite is a millennial as well. According to past generations (AKA our parents and grandparents) we are all a bunch of lazy potatoes that just lay around for hours on end while constantly taking selfies and expect to be given a million dollars (Thanks Kim K). We expect to be handed everything we want and not have to work.
But I have a question for my fellow millennials. How many of you work at least part-time and go to school? How many of you are already drowning in debt and you haven't even had a 300 level college class (Raises hand)? If I am "entitled" to anything in this country it is the dept you gave us. (In the year 1980) Happy birthday little millennial here is $907,701,000,000.00 in dept. (In the year 1997; when I was born) Happy birthday here is $5,413,146,011,397.34 in dept to try to work against before even knowing how to poop in a toilet. We are also given hell Feeling the Bern and wanting "Free College." It is not free college we want it is AFFORDABLE education we want, you know like the past two generations had before they fucked it up for the rest of us.
The day I applied for college, I also started to research student loans. Again, we are called lazy because we would rather "have someone else pay for our college rather than get a job and pay for ourselves." Let me get one thing straight, I WOULD LOVE TO WORK AT THE WONDERFUL LAND OF MINI CHICKEN QUESADILLA (Taco Bell) AND PAY FOR MY COLLEGE, WHICH IS NOT EVEN AN IVY LEAGUE, AND STILL HAVE MONEY TO LIVE ON. But that is not possible, no matter how many burritos I fold or elderly people *cough* older generations *cough* yell at me that their order is wrong. You know what I didn't order, Frank? The trillion dollars in dept that is now on my plate. Wrap that up in a tortilla shell and take a big ol'e bite.
For those who need an example of why we cant work and pay for college here it is. The annual tuition for Yale in 1970 was $2,500. The annual tuition for Yale in 2014 was $45,800. In 1970 one could work for four hours and pay for tuition but in 2014-present we have to work for 17+ hours A DAY (without tax deductions and every single penny went towards tuition) we could pay tuition but that doesn't count in room and board, meal plan, books etc. In the 1970's and before, the tuition covered almost everything.This is what we are given to work with and we are called lazy when we complain? We are not asking for free anything. We know that free things do not exist. We are just trying to make a better life for ourselves the best way we know how too while having to deal with the mess that was passed down to us by a generation that was far more lazy and entitled than ours. *Takes a selfie*
