Yeah, what’s another trillion to the debt, anyway........
Higher education is a total scam.
Internet video of lecture classes. Cut costs by 80%. Fire all the liberals ruining our kids’ minds.
Welding pays better.
Hey well at least he knows about Glowbull Warming, transgender rights, safe spaces and privilege.
Now pay up mom and dad, and be sure to vote demonrat.
Should have considered a good trade school.
Apparently I missed the part in which someone held a gun to the parents’ head about spending insane amounts of their own resources to send the boy to Rutgers so he can graduate with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies.
$189K for him to be a liberal journo hack? Sorry, Mom and Dad... you asked for that one.
Too funny, Obama boy living in Mom and Dad's basement shirking responsibility. He could flip burgers and make 800 a month to pay his loans, sheesh
I had to fund my own college costs. Six years in the Marine Corps got me the GI Bill. The rest I worked for, except two small student loans near the end, and they were paid off a long time ago. I also took my studies much more seriously than I did high school, because I knew how much this was costing me.
“... graduated from Rutgers University with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies. He’s especially interested in a Hollywood career, but has found it hard to land a job there...”
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Perhaps he should put Hollywood on the back burner and get a job so HE can pay his student loan payments instead of making his parents pay.
59 and can’t retire yet, pass the towel
They didn’t get degrees in engineering, mathematics or the hard sciences. A journalism degree is toilet paper... Technology management? What is that?
Serves them right for indulging their kids fantasies
Until Trump brings back the jobs, horror stories like this are going to increase. We will all be working for Chinese wages if current policies don’t change.
Sounds like their older son, needs to get his head out of the clouds and get a real job.
Undergrads themselves are simply not allowed to take on so much debt, at least with our government-run student loan program. The parents probably had decent jobs (until they lost them) such that the kid was probably not offered much financial aid.
Once again, the middle class gets screwed.
On the other hand, I have come across programs where PARENTS are allowed to co-sign for loans. For my daughter’s university, I was offered a $60,000 loan from a private company, referred by her university. I was amazed how quickly and easily it could have been done. What a time bomb that would be, I thought.
Here’s an idea- work full time as a waiter/bartender for a few years and pay off your own debt, slacker.
Nearly every bartender and waiter in Hollywood is an "actor" just waiting for their big break. He better start working on a backup plan if he doesn't want to wait on tables for the rest of his life.
They are morons.
It is not taxpayer responsibility to bail these idiots out of their mistake.
The FIRST thing a responsible parent does is to ensure that whatever his children's chosen avocation is to be is that it is one that can make money. Otherwise, the child should be forced to pay their own way or be responsible for their own education and the parents shouldn't cosign sh!t. I don't feel one bit sorry for these two parents.
“Our sons’ $189,000 student debt is delaying our retirement.” Yeah? So? What’s the issue?
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.