Hi all, I'm a member of the young generation. You know, "Generation Y/Millenials"....

[Cleita]

15. I am from what I believe is called the silent generation (pre baby boomer).

When I went to college we were so low tech that we used a slide rule instead of a hand calculator and our papers were pounded out on a manual typewriter in the college library that we had to rent. Otherwise there were no computers, just books, notebooks and that typewriter.

I'm appalled that free education was taken away from you. I was able to get a free college education. I didn't need a student loan at all just a part time job at minimum wage, which in my day was a living wage. You will understand the importance of Medicare and Social Security when your parents get old and you won't have to take care of them. You won't be able to that anyway with those usury student loans you have to pay off.

Anyway the same forces that took away your free education are working on taking away your health care access and old age safety nets of social security and medicare. It isn't any generation or any class of persons. It's the business interests (read Wall Street) that over the decades have convinced a significant segment of the population to vote against their very best interests with buying our politicians to keep changing the laws that make it easier and easier for them to take away all these social programs that benefit everyone so they could keep making ever bigger and bigger profits.

Here's hoping your generation sees through all the lies and can turn this around. There's hope.