The Student Debt You Willingly Took On
Is Not My Problem To Solve
The Federalist,
by
Margot Cleveland
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
8/15/2019 7:11:46 AM
Of all the pandering showcased during Democrats’ attempts to win back the presidency, wiping out student debt ranked at or near the top.
“I believe that education is the future for this country,” socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders barked during the first round of Democratic primary debates, explaining that’s why we must “eliminate student debt and we do that by placing a tax on Wall Street.” Sen. Amy Klobuchar spoke similarly. “I can tell you this,” the Minnesota senator demagogued, “if billionaires can pay off their yachts, students should be able to pay off their student loans.”
There can be no serious discussion of this issue, however, in 60-second sound bites.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MainelySane 8/15/2019 7:18:59 AM (No. 152685)
The federal government, as in so many cases, is the problem. Federally guaranteed student loans make higher education more expensive for everyone. Few aspiring students or their families can afford the expense of even a state university. Federally loans increase the spending power, .e. the disposable income, of a family or individual. More disposable income means higher prices.
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Degrees in worthless disciplines ( insert various “studies “ ) that are absolutely worthless in the real world aren’t helping much either, are they folks??
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sw penn 8/15/2019 7:51:49 AM (No. 152720)
I believe that education is the future for this country,”
Democrat indoctrination is not the same as education.
Bernie wants the most people exposed to Democrat indoctrination
for the longest possible time for the deepest possible effect.
Which would be about the darkest possible "future" imaginable.
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My blood pressure goes up whenever I hear a politician suggest wiping out student debt. This self employed high school graduate IS NOT responsible for their economic stupidity. End of discussion!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
susieq1 8/15/2019 8:00:13 AM (No. 152729)
The title says it all. Your debt is your own, it belongs to you alone. Time for people to take responsibility for their actions. Government should bug out of this loan business and let the individual make their own way.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/15/2019 8:18:26 AM (No. 152740)
The last sentence nails it. If your answer to how you spend your money is none of my business, then keep your student loans out of my business too! To quote the good Judge from "Caddyshack": The world needs ditch-diggers, too!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 8/15/2019 8:43:56 AM (No. 152768)
My grand daughter graduated from Messiah college this year. This school is so liberal, that I told them never ask for a donation from our family and to take us off their distribution list. As I was reading through the program, I noticed about 15 people with a degreee in "dance". I bet they are dancing their way to the unemployment line with that degree......sad.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 8/15/2019 9:02:12 AM (No. 152789)
I worked to pay my way through college, granted my parents paid the bulk of undergrad. I paid for most of my children's college and will work past "retirement " age before I'm done paying the debt I accumulated in the process. But now at the point of a gun I have to pay off loans others are whining about? I'm getting sick and tired of being the piggy who sweat to build the brick house while stick and straw piggies partied their screwy little tails off and now turn to me to take care of them when the wolf shows up.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/15/2019 9:05:35 AM (No. 152793)
Students and parents choose the "studies" courses because little Johnny and sister Takisha can not add up the items on their Burger King order. Education is important to those who can learn but I would estimate that seventy percent of the current crop of college snowflakes are wasting their time and money and that includes the Ivy League. When they "graduate" and apply for jobs they realize that they are holding a useless degree but by then it's too late. No wonder they want a refund or loan forgiveness.
I could give them a list of a dozen books in the library that would be more valuable than five years of sitting in a classroom but unfortunately most of them can not read either.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby 8/15/2019 9:12:51 AM (No. 152799)
The best way to fix this program is to get the Government out of the business of guaranteeing student loans.
Just take Government out of the loan business and turn it over to the Colleges and Universities. Let them take the burden on. To get their money back they would have to improve how and what they teach to make sure their students do well so that they could pay off the loans. Not as many students would get loans but the quality of the students would go up exponentially. It would be a win-win. These institutions would actually need to cut expenses, raise standards and quit teaching courses that have nothing to do with getting a good education.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
felixcat 8/15/2019 9:34:41 AM (No. 152819)
But what do these colleges and universities do withy their huge endowments? I thought that money was to help pay for scholarships? I don't agree with the soak the rich mantra of the Dem Party but I also hate that in reality, it's us average middle class people who are going to (once again) get screwed over by these forgiveness programs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 8/15/2019 9:34:47 AM (No. 152820)
Five years ago our younger son was completing his Master's degree, which would directly and immediately correlate to advancement in his profession. As an adult, he was completely paying his tuition and expenses. Tuition was outrageous, even to this state school. He did not get a loan to pay this. (We never got loans to pay for education.)
The more outrageous things was that during his studies the university built an outrageously luxurious fitness facility. In upscale amenities it could compete with any private health club / fitness center in the county.
Our son was outraged because, as a fully employed adult, he did not have time to use the facility, an because the facility was paid for largely with his tuition dollars. We see universities right and left building and maintaining buildings superfluous to their rightful mission, and creating and maintaining programs insultingly superfluous to said mission.
I believe that education, as it stands, is not the future of our country. This was true when universal education was put forth generations ago and continued to be true while the schools had a set mission related to basics and continued to follow that mission. Today (slightly off topic) I believe that universal education has failed, since it threw the basics overboard. Give us **good** vocational training for those students who require it for their advancement and happiness, and **good** universities for students who are fit to profit from higher education. I would say re-vamp K-12 entirely, but I can't think of many I would trust to do so.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 8/15/2019 9:41:08 AM (No. 152824)
#11, second paragraph: "The most outrageous thing . . . ." And a misspelling later. I could avoid correction and apology if we just had a five minute window during which to edit. I understand why we might not be allowed to change content, but I really desire the ability to provide a quick edit for form and mechanics.
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Student debt forgiveness???---someone has to pay for it, there is no forgiveness it just gets shifted over to we the hard-working taxpayers.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 8/15/2019 10:36:34 AM (No. 152880)
Any thoughts at all that the cost of college tuition is waaaaaay out of line with what you get for the money?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/15/2019 12:01:02 PM (No. 152972)
It is all about the choices we make! I always knew that I would go to college. I also knew that I would be responsible to pay for college. My parents always made it perfectly clear that while college was important, if I was going to go, I was going to pay. After all, I was the one who would benefit from it, not them. This also applied to two siblings who went to college after me. I worked hard, paid for tuition at a private college with minimal student loan debt ($6000 in 4 years). I did not do spring break, worked 3 jobs, and basically did not extra other fun college stuff. Work & study for 4 years. I paid off my student loans in 2 years. My two children grew up with the same expectations about paying for college as I did. They chose not to go to college. One now owns his own business, another stay home with her kids. Both are happy, both did just fine without college. They should not have to pay for the poor choices of others.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 8/15/2019 6:37:51 PM (No. 153380)
Damned right!
I put myself 100% through grad school by working at three jobs, off and on, while I was studying and doing my grad research and building a hybrid vehicle in the 70s and working all summer, each summer.
Your debt, YOUR problem, and YOU pay it.
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We are graduating too many dummies along with those who will get jobs because of Affirmative Action, not excellence. How many schools overcharge because of faculty salaries and coach's salaries? We are expecting less and paying more.
Anybody seen Ms DeVos ?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/16/2019 10:12:16 AM (No. 153803)
If you are too dumb to figure out how to pay back your student loan debt, you were too dumb to to go to college in the first place.
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