Posted on 12/02/2015 8:00:49 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
“Our sons’ $189,000 student debt is delaying our retirement.” Yeah? So? What’s the issue?
What do you call a graduate in Journalism with a 4.0 GPA?
“Waiter.”
Not even a liberal journo hack....the twit is an extra in Hollywood in his part time while being a bartender. Waste of air.
If you hit 65 with student loan debt, waive it. You have paid far more in Taxes, SS taxes than the debt.
But this story is clear. Don’t co-sign any debt with kids.
We had three in university at the same time. We worked our behinds off picking up overtime and other jobs to pay for this.
The kids worked everything they could during the summer from washing hospital beds to jackhammering bricks.
I suppose they want debt forgiveness now so that they can walk away and stick someone else with the bill.
I know of a young man who enlisted in Marine Reserves, went to college on G I Bill, graduated and commissioned.
Only needed small loans and paid them all within a year.
He also worked at least one and sometimes two jobs in the process. Currently debt free with a decent amount of assets. 26 years old.
Where did I lay my miniature violin?
They didn't get "screwed"....they walked right into that Cat House, opened up their wallets and said "Screw me good." There is no sympathy from me for them. They asked for it by not thinking.
Like too many kids he overplayed for a worthless degree.
I have no sympathy for idiots!
I paid my student loans and worked to get through college. If the government didn’t hand out student loans and grants like candy on Halloween to colleges, they would be less expensive.
***Welding pays better.***
I agree! Welding, steel fabrication, Electrician, Plumber, Heavy equipment Operator. Machinist, Millwright.
Dirty work but it pays real well!
In my forty five years of working, I have NEVER been without a job unless I wanted to be without a job (short times only).
Degree in (Fill in the blank) studies?
Too bad they didn’t use a little cost/benefit analysis before burying themselves in student loan debt.
That alone proves they were too dumb to go to college in the first place.
I just had this conversation with my granddaughter who is looking at colleges now and stressing out over student loans, etc. She’s a junior in high school.
I said.....there are many other less expensive options for you. Get all your Gen Eds at a community college then go to a state university. That’s what I did. And oh yeah, I worked my way through college and never took out a loan, not once. No sympathy from me.
Aside from promoting academic excellence from the beginning, parents need to ensure throughout middle school and high school, that the curricula is geared toward sustaining a productive career.
Debbie (now home with the Lord) and I are both intelligent, but we had enough walking around and chewing gum at the ame time sense to realize ... some kids just don't do right
We decided to be cruel and drag them to church, brain wash them of worldly concepts and forced them to learn how to tie their own shoes, learn multiplication tables and read a dial clock .. WORK for whatever you want.
They're all successful Christian American adults and no one went to college
“I really didn’t think I’d still be working at this age,” Susanne, 59”
...what made her think that!? I’m 57 and retiring is no option nor do I expect it to be, until I’m at least 70.
My wife’s ignorant dumbass redneck cousin makes a bundle.
Bad planning gets one in trouble more often than not. In 1972, I went to a top rated college, and later graduated with honors. My degree was a BSBA in finance. Even back then, I knew a liberal arts degree would be worth very little in the real world.
I put myself through college with about $11k in loans. Paid off in less than 4 years.
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