I see under-30’s busting their butts, too.  And THEY have an even greater risk of having their jobs exported to India.  I know a mother and son—she’s in her 50’s, he’s in his 20’s—both lost their jobs when their company was sold and ALL the work was exported to India.

Funny thing is, I don’t blame India and Indians at all: They are simply exploiting American stupidity and short-sightedness to their own advantage.  When HP sends ALL its support services to India, that’s thousands of American jobs lost. As each company and industry does it, there’s more job loss in the US.  Then they bitch that American consumers aren’t buying….How dumb is dumb?

As Michael Moore put: That would be like GM working to end Driver’s Ed classes in High Schools.  Yet that’s exactly what happened.  Short-term, short-range smart…long range, long term imbecilic.

Lemmings.

Bill - sounds like you resent your children.

Big B - student loans cannot be discarded in bankruptcy.

As the father of a college senior I found this article amusing. Amusing only in the fact that my son does not live at home (yet) he currently resides off campus where I am sure he running up sizable debt, like nearly every other college student in the US. I have thought about the day he will need money, or have to move back in with us and i have arrived at a couple of ideas of simple civil disobedience that might solve this problem in america once and for all. These ideas are as follows;

Every person with student loans in the US should declare bankruptcy tomorrow, or the day after their graduation.

They should use the emergency rooms at all hospitals as their primary care office. Need a shot, cut yourself, have a sniffle? Go to the emergency room. Run up as many bills as possible, wait till the phone calls from collection agencies get more aggressive, and the stack of mail gets as high as a midgets ass, then declare bankruptcy. (this idea goes for everyone with medical bills. If we want true and lasting change, we need to bankrupt the system as soon as possible)

Apply for as much public assistance as humanly possible.

My son’s generation can change america. They can change it by tearing it down, bring it to it’s knees financially. It’s the only thing the Man will understand.

Yes this will be a hardship for the parents of america, but if things don’t get fixed now, we won’t have social security or medicare to fall back on. So let the kid move back in, so long as he does his own laundry and mows the fucking grass every once in a while. Man, I am starting to hate that fucking mower.