If Your Parents Can’t Pay Their Bills, You May Have To

[JDPriestly]

20. If conservatives have their way.

And on top of it, they want working people to pay for their military adventures.

It's ridiculous.

Remember, today's seniors paid the Social Security and Medicare costs for their parents. So it is not unreasonable for us to expect our children to pay ours. It's a generational obligation. But it should not be done by individual young people for their own parents. It should be done by all working and earning people for all seniors.

Are we a society?

Or are we just a mumbo-jumbo bunch of selfish individuals?

It's not a choice between Socialism or Capitalism. It's a choice about being socially cohesive or socially divided. Republicans and conservatives want to divide our country and our society. We Democrats and liberals (most of us anyway) want to have a society in which we have dignity not only as individuals but as a group.

This is the most important issue that young people face today.

And, frankly, the student loan issue is the same kind of thing. It used to be that states supported their colleges and universities through tax revenue. Now the tax revenue doesn't seem to be enough to do that, so kids have to borrow so much money. It's ridiculous. Let's go back to funding education and services for seniors from tax money. The lucky rich can afford education and retirement. All of us should be able to afford both. At today's wages, that is impossible.