Listening to Right Wing Radio currently because I'm always on the lookout for comedic material

I consider myself a humorist, you see.

And the guy is like my age and he’s being all perplexed why Millennials aren’t buying houses. To be fair, he is granting the crushing student loan debt and the fact that we shipped all our production overseas to increase profits and stock prices and have made ourselves a service economy.

TRANSLATION: AN ECONOMY OF SERVANTS

Still, the guy is perplexed why the Millennials ain’t kicking and screaming for houses. “It would be so GOOD for the economy!”

He then took sides, saying his parents’ generation and his grandparents’ generation and HIS generation (also MINE) were all about buying a house.

Um, slow down there, skippy. First of all, once you start identifying more with the generations before you rather than the ones after you, that’s how you know you’ve gotten old. And second of all, the Gen Xers are saddled with pretty brutal fucking student loan debt, too (which I’m not paying back, ever ever ever).

Why would anyone want to buy a house if they can’t just or nearly outright buy it? Oh, please, saddle me with 40 years more of debt! I love debt serfdom! It’s groovy!

Buying a house is like buying a ginormous anchor you can’t even afford.

Oh, please, sign me up.

Keep in mind, right wing radio guy, that this world in which buying a house is a terrible financial idea is one those older generations you so fondly identify with created. The problem was not created by the Millennials. If you think everybody should buy a house like in the Leave It To Beaver days, then maybe we shouldn’t have flushed everything down the crapper in the name of greed.

The new American dream isn’t buying a house, but can I fucking make rent?

Renting has its benefits anyway. Last month, my bathroom sink broke and all I did was call the landlord.

Then I took a nap.