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I am the student loan crisis at its ugliest: I graduated and found out I have $200,000 in debt
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Posted on 01/30/2016 7:31:23 PM PST by TigerClaws

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To: BenLurkin

Probably should have taken an accounting elective class.


41 posted on 01/30/2016 7:48:39 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: TigerClaws

A college graduate who just discovered all the debt he’d run up signing all those promissory notes for the last four years? What Bull. Nobody’s that dumb! Nobody.


42 posted on 01/30/2016 7:48:40 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born, they're execreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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To: TigerClaws
I graduated and found out I have $200,000 in debt am a dumbass upon whom any and all "education" is wasted, regardless of cost.
43 posted on 01/30/2016 7:49:33 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: dfwgator

Is a Bioethecist a Biochemist with ethics? Or, is it a Biologist with ethics?


44 posted on 01/30/2016 7:50:34 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The Bush family needs to just go away. The Clinton family needs just to go to prison.)
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To: TigerClaws
Go to a trade school.

I don't see too many poor plumbers, electricians, painters and carpenters.

In fact, I don't know a single one who is on the dole.

Leni

45 posted on 01/30/2016 7:50:35 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: TigerClaws

If you are not smart enough to understand loans and interest rates, you really should not be in college. At the very least your parents are not smart enough and should be paying for the loans if they encouraged you to get into that much debt.


46 posted on 01/30/2016 7:50:59 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: dfwgator
WTF is a “Bioethicist”, and why do we need them?

And, since he now appears to work for the NIH, why do 70,000 of my tax dollars go to this idiot every year?

47 posted on 01/30/2016 7:51:17 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: garjog

Hilarious but spot on.


48 posted on 01/30/2016 7:51:27 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: TigerClaws

If students think a college education is expensive now, just wait till it’s free. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.


49 posted on 01/30/2016 7:51:41 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: MinuteGal

50 posted on 01/30/2016 7:51:46 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Actually, a Bioethecist is someone who will chair your Obamacare Death Panel.


51 posted on 01/30/2016 7:53:57 PM PST by PAR35
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To: TigerClaws

$200,000 is a lot of beer.


52 posted on 01/30/2016 7:54:01 PM PST by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting , knitting, always knitting.)
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To: SamAdams76

“When I got out of the military in 1985, I was debating a four-year college but ended up going to a 9-month technical (trade) school instead, as I wanted to get myself into the workforce in a skilled position as quickly as possible.”

Yep, I went to TCI in West Haven, CT. Class of ‘84. Best decision I ever made. I also remember a school by the name of The Connecticut School of Electronics at that time.


53 posted on 01/30/2016 7:54:53 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: dfwgator
A gainfully employed bioethicist...


54 posted on 01/30/2016 7:58:51 PM PST by frankenMonkey
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To: TigerClaws
These young people may have to abandon their educations early; pay back far more, after interest, than they took out; manage exceptionally exploitative loan terms; shoulder serious, chronic mental distress; delay important life decisions; and participate less in the economy than they otherwise would.

Boo hoo! Young people? Master's degree, typically, goes to someone over 23. Old enough to do the math.
I'm younger than 23. I went to work instead of college, and I've never "abandoned my education." I have no debts. I haven't been suckered into anything "exploitative." Got no mental distress. I participate in the economy, making money and investing it sensibly.
And by the way, you did not delay important life decisions -- you made the important life decision to go to college. Smart enough to get in and yet dumb enough to sign on to massive debt, you were. Smart enough to earn that post-grad degree and yet boneheaded to have overpaid so much for the sheepskin wall art.

55 posted on 01/30/2016 7:59:01 PM PST by Buttons12
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To: dfwgator
"Bioethics is the study of the typically controversial ethical issues emerging from new situations and possibilities brought about by advances in biology and medicine. It is also moral discernment as it relates to medical policy and practice."

https://www.google.com/search?q=bio+ethics&gws_rd=ssl


"Racking up $200,000 debt for a Bioethics degree is no way to go through life, son."

56 posted on 01/30/2016 8:00:24 PM PST by Rebelbase (A new batch of harpies has hatched in time for the 2016 election.)
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To: PAR35

Finance-challenged author whose
bioethics led him to become a vegan.
He now thinks the rest of us should
subsist on grain.


57 posted on 01/30/2016 8:00:59 PM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: TigerClaws

Well, the world needs ditch diggers too.


58 posted on 01/30/2016 8:01:43 PM PST by stylin19a
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To: TigerClaws

Has a masters degree and cant do basic math? someone else signed the loan papers? he has total amnesia? i dont understand how one can just one day “discover” they have amassed a large amount of debt.....


59 posted on 01/30/2016 8:04:53 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: BenLurkin
... participate less in the economy than they otherwise would...

No, you participate in the modern economy alright. Just that your participation is extremely limited to debt repayment. The kings and queens of government bureaucracy and universities get very high salaries, and get to use your money to fully participate in the economy.

Wonder why the government under King Barry sought to fire all private student loan facilitators, and bring all student loan debt under the Treasury? It was for Obamacare, so that “profits” from student loan repayments would help pay for Obamacare.

Just as the debtor is slave to the lender, so our college students are slave to the federal government.

Very intentionally by the socialists.

60 posted on 01/30/2016 8:05:00 PM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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