Bernie Sanders
In reply to the discussion: Wow. I would have voted for Hillary and encouraged friends to, until this... [View all]But I do think there are a lot of youth from well off families that are in colleges or just out of college who see this struggles of their peers. They might be okay, but some of their friends are not. And so there is a more personal awareness of the issue that comes from being friends with more people of the demo that are most affected.
As I said, I can't reply. But people said "Nobody forced you to take out student loans." "I'm sure you had other choices than loans" "quite playing the victim." I really don't know where to start...are they that oblivious to the realities of my generation?
I should have dropped out? I should have taken a third job? (two jobs plus my scholarship was supposed to get my through debt-free, I turned down my acceptance to Columbia to go to a UC to not have debt -- then the crash happened).
Also, unemployment in my city after I graduated was near 13%. And over half of that was people my age. The average job posting was getting over 500 resumes in the first hour after being posted.
I AM THE VICTIM. But its not just me. There are real victims here. Many of the victims got it much worse than me. They lost their homes, their jobs, their retirement...There are CEO's getting golden parachutes of millions of dollars after breaking the law and ruining our economy. Why are there laws about that stuff? Well because what they were doing was negatively effects others (victims) . Yes, the ambiguous, hard to define victimization of a greedy, corporate system that breaks laws for profit at the expense of millions of helpless people is so hard to categorize and define. But it is a crime none the less. There are millions of victims for those crimes. Wake up.