The Baby Boomers pulled up the ladder behind them:<p><a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/yes-summer-job-paid-tuition-back-in-rsquo81-but-then-we-got-cheap/" rel="nofollow">https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/yes-summer-job-pai...</a><p>>The reason a summer at KFC could pay for a year of UW med school in 1981 isn’t that we were so hardworking and industrious. It’s that taxpayers back then picked up 90 percent of the tab. We weren’t Horatio Algers. We were socialists.<p>>Today, the public picks up only 30 percent of UW tuition, and dropping.<p>The Boomers stole from the generations that came after them and I can only hope Millennials will wake up and steal it back.