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In reply to the discussion: OK, boomers; look at what we've left for our grandkids [View all]brush
(53,475 posts)who saddled boomers with predatory and odious loan terms? It didn't start with boomers or will it end with boomers or GenXers, or Millennials or GenZers. It's a silly, easy cliche to blame everything on boomers. Another poster on this thread pointed out that the greatest generation blamed boomers for losing wars that they started, for being drugged out hippies protesting everything. But boomers are the ones who paid for their medicare and social security yet get blamed for everything.
Bullshit again. The entire greatest generation wasn't to blame for starting the predatory and odious loan terms for boomer students. Just the bankers and college administrator who did it are to blame, not the entire greatest generation.
Same with the boomers who were the first generation victimized by predatory student loans but now get the blame for every ill in our society. And what about the republican party that continually has pushed to cut college funding?
Stop repeating easy cliches that blame a whole generation. Some boomers are still paying off student loans, for God's sake.