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Student loan forgiveness?
yoshmyster
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So again common shlubs gets nothing like the ones who worked through covid. I suppose if you got a useless degree that didn't get you a job in that field and now you are flipping burgers for $15.00 (that's another subject) the government is willing to forgive this debt for your vote to keep them in power. The debt is the punishment for chasing after that useless degree.
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Those of us who chose no college now get to pay for those who went, makes perfect sense in the liberal world of make believe
I know a young man, good kid, he just had to go to this very expensive private school 500 miles from home. Parents did not discourage it. He went with student loans. He has a degree in cinematography. Maybe there is a more worthless degree but off the top of my head I can't think of one. Over 200Gs in student debt. He waits tables in high end restaurant.
Nothing more than pandering for votes.
Actually it is more than pandering.......they are actually buying votes this way!
Not a fan of the student load forgiveness at all.
But on a related theme- My wife has student loans. She is a nurse at the VA. The government has a program that if you work for a authorized non-profit for 10 years you get student loan forgiveness. The VA is on the authorization list and the VA even uses this benefit as a recruiting tool.
My issue is the program is broke and never pays out. My wife cannot get credit for her years of service. So we just keep paying which is fine I guess but it really chaps my * with all the broken * government programs we are paying for.
If the world is gonna end in 5-10 years anyway, guess those degrees won't be worth much anyway. Guess those young, dumb libtards don't realize that they're talking out both sides of their mouths huh......
It is irritating that many folks will receive this Freebie as a way of securing votes. I paid for both of my sons'undergrad degrees. My youngest son is paying off his Graduate School loans as he should.
So I paid for my son's educations and will now be part of paying off everyone else's too I guess. The good news is both sons are hard working with good jobs and potential upward movement in their careers. So I guess I will quit whining and be content with that.....
I do agree that if anyone applies and is accepted for a loan, they should pay it back.
What never seems to get mentioned is the fact there are a lot of SCAM BASED, so called "colleges" that lead young uneducated "marks" into their traps. Suckered in to a make believe world of promises of a bright future.
I hope ..I hope that a class action lawsuit for those who paid for their education.
All of these kidz signed up for loans knowing that they had to be paid back......with interest. It's their own fault if the degree plan that they followed does not afford them the salaries that they desire.
I got a four year degree from THE University of Texas..........paid for by the GI Bill and ME......working while I went to school. I don't owe money and resent the fact that taxpayers are going to pony up for this bullsnot plan if it ever happens.
I resent the fact that I am paying property taxes to educate K-12 kids. My child did not ever go to public skrewel in the US and I don't have a skrewel age kid now.
I agree with all of the above.
I didn't need to go to college. I was 18 and already knew everything so I went and did a hitch with the SeaBees.Maybe they will pay me 150 grand that I didn't use for a degree.
All BS my friends all BS😫
Yes,the system is always rigged and whoever cries the loudest and can get the most votes in the booth gets the political favors. Like The BLM or College kids with student loans debt. If you are just a working stiff they could care less.
Now if your a migrant from central America it just gets better and better for you too!
serf
Ruger4me You nailed it.
When are they going to " FORGIVE" taxes on social security and my mortgage payments?
I did not go severl reasons big one of course money
but since I was home schooled and did my own teching training courses of course training hands on major with a pick shovel and jack hammer my minor a follow up course now as in in worn out body and joints
I should get paid also for the home schooling plan I went with and received a degree in "real world " life LOL
4 years ago mi gov was recinde the senior tax on pension ,now it will be her new rally cry this election💩
She sure has done a good job of fixing the damn roads! Pothole junction is closer to what she has accomplished!
Question:
I am currently socking away money for the inevitable college tuition expenses for my 3 kids.
Can I go buy a boat with that money tomorrow?
Since the only reason I went to college was to get an Air Force commission and serve my country, shouldn't I get a refund of my fully paid-off student loan? And also since that was 50+ years ago, shouldn't I get interest?
Yes, buy a boat. It will be money BETTER spent! 😁👍
Unless they are going for a REAL WORLD job then college is a waste of time and $. Drs, nurses, engineers, vets, teachers, yea those go to college(several others too)
BUT 75% of the degrees people get at college are USELESS!
Just sayin, trade(tech) school is a GREAT place to learn a skill and get a job without spending 100s of thousands on tuition!
Mike Rowe has that part right!
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Me too, SeaBees trained me well! Worked all my life as an electrician to afford to retire so I could pay for someone to get a degree in Underwater Basket Weaving! Chaps my *! My Grandson graduated with a Civil Engineering degree that my daughter and I financed, and is doing well. My idea is if you take out a loan, you repay it!
Don't get me started, yoshmyster or I'll need to get another blood pressure pill. I worked, borrowed, and paid off every loan for many decades. I don't own anyone anything except to a very few, gratitude.
A college degree is a great thing if it opens real doors. I worked a job 40hrs plus a week all through college and grad school. Two jobs most of the time in the summer. I left with marketable degrees, married, No debt, 3K in the bank and a paid off 5 year old car. That was over 40 years ago, in those days a semester of Grad school including books was right around 1K.
My son's last semester of Grad school was right at 20K. He paid for some of it and borrowed the rest. But it is a marketable degree and he has built a decent counseling practice and will be paying his loans off in short order. So in the long run worth the costs.
There are too many colleges offering worthless degrees and raking in tons of cash from all the government loans...and young folks on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars with jobs that will never let them cover the loans. But the bottom line make sure the degree you go for is marketable and if you borrow money for it, pay it back !
MY oldest son owns a commercial real estate and investment company and doesn't have a degree. He has a lawyer and a CPA and a bunch of agents and office personal that have degrees that work for him. He said he's not the smartest guy in town but he said he does have that guy on his payroll. 😁
If they decide to forgive all the student loan debt then the next step they need to take is to cancel the entire student loan program. The more government got involved in education (loan programs) the higher education costs went.
You know what the real kicker of all this is? Colleges and universities don’t pay taxes. Think about it, they are one of the largest business in the country and they don’t pay taxes. They should be the ones to forgive student loans, after all they are the ones that push students to take out these loans. They live under the lie that they educate, where their purpose anymore is to indoctrinate students into believing in the principles of socialism rather the educate.
Our youngest son was just completing his first year at Texas Tech University at the age of 16 in the spring of 2001 and they would have had their hands full indoctrinating him even at that age even if they were that kind of school. Texas Tech is considered a conservative school is the only reason his Mom, his life long homeschool teacher, considered that school for him. He's just like his momma was, to smart to have his head filled with liberal BS from some egg head professors at some socialist liberal college. If you think they don't educate at TT you should look over some of Matt's calculus tests he had to take. He had a 4.0 average in everything. If you're smart and make good grades you don't need a student loan and you also don't need to be able to run the 40 in 4.2 seconds either.
We had the University of Tennessee at our backdoor but the liberals had already started to over run it and his Mom said no way. Who would have ever thunk it would have happened in East Tennessee? Times are a changin'.
Our oldest son I mentioned in the post above, his Mom and I didn't give up on him but, it appeared when he was young he was destined to race motorcycles, ride bulls, drink beer and chase girls for a living and that wasn't going to pay his bills. Then it happened...he fell in love! And she straightened our wayward son out somehow and whipped him into shape. Love is an amazing thing. His Mom, June, said they reminded her of another couple she remembered from a long time ago. It couldn't have included me 'cause I was never stupid enough to get on a damn bull. 😏
"I was never stupid enough to get on a damn bull."
Hey! I resemble that remark!
Ooops sorry about that. I forgot for a minute the forum I was commenting on. 😀