[CaptainMattJ.]

Every time i come back to the realization that 18 year olds, fresh out of high school, are being charged almost as much money as the national average income just to attend a garbage institution for one year, i die a little inside.

But of course, only crazy people and lefty loons would dare get outraged by the fact that our military literally hemorrhages money on stupid, unnecessary, over-the-top gadgets, waging trillion dollar wars with interest adding up to nearly $6 trillion, all of which is going to end up being payed off by YOUNG PEOPLE. Meanwhile, 80 year old men in washington still love to believe that its 1960 and kids can just walk right into a restaurant with a help wanted sign and get hired making enough money to live on their own AND go to college. I mean, its not like it takes a young person to understand just how grotesque the system is today. But they choose to ignore it. They choose to believe that we spend enough money on education already, that only lazy poor people wouldnt be able to make it through college. When i signed up to go to cal poly pomona, i had to pay about $500 out of pocket for all kinds of stupid, insignificant fees just to sign up for classes and get admitted. It was actually really hard to pay so much money out of pocket because my family already barely made it paycheck to paycheck. My first college of choice, the university of arizona, was literally $41,000 for one year, completely unaffordable. I applied for all the scholarships and grants i could find and i got absolutely nothing. Had i gone, i would have racked up $165,000 easily in student loans by the time i was finished. That is pure, unadulterated extortion in the ugliest sense.

And when i searched for jobs when i was still in high school, i must've applied to 30 different places and didnt even get so much as a phone call back. I went in multiple times to talk to the managers of a couple places and they said theyd review it, but low and behold i got nothing. Unless you knew somebody who worked there, you werent getting the job. They neither want to deal with people under 18, nor did they want inexperienced workers (which ironically is the biggest obstacle to actually getting experience). Turning 18 didnt even really help much at all. They still dont give you the time of day. Even if they hire you, they give you barely any hours, and the hours they do give you is always the absolute most inconvenient times. you're lucky to get 20 hours at minimum wage a week. Thats barely even owning a POS junker car on that salary just to get to and from school and work. AND THEY EXPECT YOU TO PAY 41,000 A YEAR FOR SCHOOL?!?!?!?

These colleges need their staff fired. They need a complete overhaul with crushing, swift, and assertive reform to make PUBLIC colleges ACTUALLY AFFORDABLE for 18 year olds with zero income. Why we continue to let universities price gouge in the most extreme and detrimental sense possible is beyond me. We need these corporatist dinosaurs out of office immediately before they destroy whatever future young americans have. This country is going to go absolutely nowhere if kids come out of college with debt so massive they couldnt dream of paying it off on the salary that their degree would earn them. Sorry to point it out, but baby boomers have effectively ruined their grandchildren's lives. College degrees have become as worthless as the dollar bill.