Mike Rowe blasts Democrat-led push for
student loan forgiveness: ‘The fault belongs
to you’
BizPac Review,
by
Jon Dougherty
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/16/2020 5:42:05 AM
Mike Rowe, known for hosting shows like “Dirty Jobs” and “Somebody’s Gotta Do It,” lambasted the Democrat-led push to forgive student loans to college grads, which would add “hundreds of billions” in federal debt.“Lots of people on this page have asked me to comment on the various proposals to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt,” he wrote on his Facebook page.“Many it seems, suspect that I’ll be supportive of these efforts, since I’ve written at length about the outrageous rise of college tuition, and the scandalous ways in which hundreds of thousands of students have been conned into borrowing ridiculous sums of money to purchase degrees that
Reply 1 - Posted by:
mifla 12/16/2020 5:47:05 AM (No. 633244)
Vote buying. Create the problem and then throw money at it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MelRae71 12/16/2020 6:26:33 AM (No. 633268)
Mike Rowe is a purveyor of common sense and decency.
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Make the colleges and universities pay back the loans. If someone or some group is to blame for worthless college/university degrees, it is the seller.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Venturer 12/16/2020 7:16:32 AM (No. 633301)
The price of a college education today is because college loans were so easy to get.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 12/16/2020 7:59:45 AM (No. 633340)
Go to a community college or tech college just like I did. I took one class at a time sometimes because that is all I could afford. I was probably on the 50-year plan but so what. It never hurts to educate yourself!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 12/16/2020 8:01:21 AM (No. 633347)
Just as soon as the self-paid loans since 1960 are forgiven. Should we hold our breath?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 12/16/2020 8:11:14 AM (No. 633370)
I saw the Great College Swindle soon after I put my degree to work on a landscaping crew.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Sanchin 12/16/2020 8:13:08 AM (No. 633373)
Colleges and Universities have become a malignant cancer in our society starting the 60's. They have been the vanguard for promoting progressive, socialist, and communist ideas in this country. They have created indentured servants with their insane costs of tuition. For the most part, their degrees are worthless and have turned out thousands of functioning idiots. I will not blame the kids entirely because it is society and the lovely corporate masters who demand that entry-level positions be filled with the college-educated,
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TCloud 12/16/2020 8:28:19 AM (No. 633389)
Not too many Trade High Schools in the US, but on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation a new Lakota Tech High School has opened its' doors for those students who want to learn a trade. It is a South Dakota Public High School. The other three high schools are pushers into these expensive universities if they can make it that far.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
walcb 12/16/2020 8:46:24 AM (No. 633418)
He said student loan forgiveness would essentially further incentivize colleges and universities to continue jacking up tuition rather than bringing it “back to earth.” Exactly!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
felixcat 12/16/2020 8:52:35 AM (No. 633424)
If you're too stupid to understand how taking out a loan works then you forfeit your right to vote. These colleges and universities have huge endowments - what do they do with all that money?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Arby 12/16/2020 9:12:49 AM (No. 633455)
Dems just want to throw money at one of their constituencies. They are the reason for the bureaucracies which drive up the cost of education--regulations, diversity scams, and so on. Now they want to buy the youth vote at the same time that they encourage the universities to raise their tuition even higher. Disgusting. Appalling. And oh so obvious.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 12/16/2020 9:38:48 AM (No. 633477)
One more comment. I find it reassuring that Mr. Ukraine, Joe Biden, wants to assure people with student loan forgiveness debt. Wish he and his son would have been concerned about the financial burdens of the Ukrainian people.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/16/2020 9:54:28 AM (No. 633494)
If they were stupid enough to believe that their Womyns' Studies and African American Studies degree was going to gain employment for them outside of Burger King then they were too stupid to attend college in the first place.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
czechlist 12/16/2020 9:59:00 AM (No. 633498)
I managed engineering laboratories at a well known defense contractor. We were working on a very specific Army contract and an engineer on the team fell ill. I needed a replacement with unique qualifications. I identified a highly recommended candidate with over 10 years experience but HR would not even allow an interview because he only possessed an AAS degree. I was reduced to hiring a recent ME grad and wasted time and budget on training. Today a degree is favored over experience in the Government contracts world and bureaucratic interference is a major reason tax dollars are wasted.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Sully 12/16/2020 10:01:46 AM (No. 633506)
There's alotta dummies who owe college debt and want this relief, but there's lot more non-dummies who are incensed at the idea. Anyone who:
1. paid off their loans
2. didn't go to spring break on college loans
3. commuted to college and ate at home
4. majored in hard marketable majors
5. went to a technical school and paid for their own tools
We who washed dishes and waited tables for tuition $ have a message: if you have debt, I Don't Care. No offense. Good luck.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/16/2020 10:04:47 AM (No. 633510)
Yeah, it's awful. Big Education keeps raiding their price for a commodity with less and less value as standards weaken for graduation. Then the "young people" who parlayed their degrees into barista and Uber gigs can double down for a Masters degree, which are also now largely credentials sold by the bushel. Then they can move up to coffee shop and bar management.
You can't fix stupid; but you can make easy money from it - with payments guaranteed by the Federal government.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
lakerman1 12/16/2020 10:12:28 AM (No. 633519)
From time to time, Judge Judy hears a student loan related case.
This is a typical scenario - a female student receives her student loan money during the semester, and a male she is interested in or dating, needs tires for his car, or fancy rims, or a smart phone, or something, so the female uses her cash out to 'lend him the money.' And sometimes the male admits that the female is being played by him, along with other females. And the male claims the money was a gift, as he smirks at Judge Judy.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Zumkopf 12/16/2020 10:17:05 AM (No. 633528)
See, this is one of those issues where the Democrats' elitism blinds them to the basic unpopularity of the concept they're pushing. People who have no college degree don't want to pay for those who do. People who paid for their own college degrees don't want to pay for those who didn't. People who invested in degrees that pay off don't want to subsidize Socialist Studies majors. Even illegal aliens don't want to pay for John Kerry's kid's Doctorate in Yacht Basketry.
Control college costs, or inflict the cost of failing students and useless degrees on the colleges that create them, and the student debt problem goes away. Subsidize foolishness, and like anything else that is subsidized, you get more of it.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Zigrid 12/16/2020 10:29:00 AM (No. 633549)
Higher education has been a con... remember obama/biden federalized the college loan situation and then turned the college financial offices on the students.... I paid for my truck... I struggled and paid it myself...that's how life is... you buy it... YOU pay for it... NOT me....I helped all my children through college... it wasn't easy... but they were MY responsibility...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Paperpuncher 12/16/2020 10:33:26 AM (No. 633554)
Agree with everyone above. I just wanted to say that Mike Rowe is an absolute class act, a man of honor and common sense. I would love to have a beer with him sometime.
P.S. I graduated from a state university in 1974 with a business degree. It did eventually pay off. My total cost of 4 1/2 years of school including room and board was under $40,000. I took odd jobs for small pay, I worked over Christmas break and all summer long. The fact is today the same university is closer to that $40,000 but, it is that per year. When I was there the dorms were not air conditioned. (open the window buddy). The campus class buildings were not air conditioned except for a couple new ones. There was no student recreation center etc. etc. our children today are snow flakes.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Kafka2 12/16/2020 11:31:51 AM (No. 633624)
It is a shame that some students went into debt to get degree that is worthless for getting a job. But, it is not the responsibility of those who repaid their college debt or those who never went to college to be taxed to pay it for them. The rest of us should not have to pay for their dumb decisions. The only other party that should be on the hook for repaying these loans are the colleges promoting the worthless degrees.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 12/16/2020 12:24:45 PM (No. 633675)
Mike Rowe is one of the good guys still around in Hollywood. May his career still thrive even after he writes truth like this. Democrats and the students and their parents are all at fault for this. Where were the parents when it came to the student picking their majors/course of study? The equivalent of basket weaving/journalism or gender/women's studies means those students are getting a degree in how to make coffee drinks at Starbucks.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
skacmar 12/16/2020 12:28:14 PM (No. 633679)
My son who works as a $35,000 per year painter to support his family should not have to pay off the student loans of the $350,000 per year Attorney, Physician, or Hedge Fund Trader. He should not have to pay off the student loans of those who majored in "ethnic studies" or "LGBTQ Race Theory" and now find themselves in low paying jobs. These people signed on the dotted line when they accepted the student loan debt knowing full well that they would some day need to repay it. They are adults and need to use their "education" to figure out how to pay back their debt, or live with the consequences of too much debt like everyone else.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
crashnburn 12/16/2020 12:52:59 PM (No. 633718)
I agree. The loan forgiveness is nothing but vote buying. And Schumer wants to immediately forgive loans up to $50K. Why stop there. What about people who mostly paid as we went and had a minimal loan balance upon graduation? If we have loan forgiveness, then everyone who’s paid off their loans, no matter how long ago, should get an immediate tax free grant of $50K!
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
zoidberg 12/16/2020 2:38:32 PM (No. 633838)
“fundamental unfairness…to the millions of Americans who have paid their college debts”
Bingo.
Student loans should work like this: a student and his/her/its parents go to a loan officer, with transcripts, test scores, letters of recommendation, etc. and an education proposal at a school he/she/it has been admitted. Based on that information, the bank will know if the loan has a good probability of being repaid. STEM, econ, or business majors would get approved easily; "Studies" majors probably not.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
uptoome 12/16/2020 4:14:19 PM (No. 633916)
My step-daughters both paid off their student debts. Do they get thee $10,000?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
watashiyo 12/16/2020 7:00:51 PM (No. 634069)
Stealing the election was not enough and now the democrats are stealing from us to pay off the loser's student loans. SOCIALISM!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 12/16/2020 8:23:47 PM (No. 634140)
There was a time when only the best and brightest went to college and attained degrees. Now, standards have been lowered to the point that anyone who can come up with the money is able to get admittance, even those certain to flunk out. Colleges bend over backward to create degree programs for those incapable to handle a STEM degree program, regardless if there is an actual market for the degree. Indoctrination appears to be their primary function, creating generations of "entitled" students totally lacking a comprehension if of history and willing foot soldiers of social revolution. What a mess, for which these "woke" millions expect us to pick up the tab.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
watashiyo 12/16/2020 8:50:18 PM (No. 634172)
Paid off my 58K college tuition while working as a bartender and driving a forklift at Del Monte Cannery.
Now retired and living the life the Entitlement Addicts could never achieve.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack 12/16/2020 9:02:38 PM (No. 634185)
The loan and a subsequent payback of the loan are the kids first experience in Finance 101. If they flunk the course they should spend a couple of years in one of the armed forces services or another program like the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps ). Let them work it out like many of us did.
There is no reason that I should have to spend a tour of duty for myself and some laggard?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
jdh 12/16/2020 9:05:07 PM (No. 634188)
I would like to see the comparison of loan amounts to the cost of books, fees, and tuition at each college/university. Food and lodging are not uniquely college expenses. Everyone has to pay those. Travel costs, interpersonal expenses, and everything else we paid for are the same costs that the non-enrolled have to pay for. Those loans paid for a lot more than tuition and books.
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