Posted on 09/17/2023 6:44:54 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
I used to watch Fox News for Tucker Carlson. But no more.
Precisely the main concept in Stoicism.
I meant reading and commenting here. I haven’t watched news on tv for years now. It had become editorial not informational.
If you get bored, there’s a book called Stop Reading the News by Rolf Dobelli.
Easy read with true points.
I figure he’s a liberal, but it’s not distracting.
I went to school at a Ny state univ. Got a skilled degree paid it off while I was in a combat zone getting paid captains Oy. Got another lucrative degree with tge 1200 I paid up front for the GI bill
The school I went to to pay $60 per month for my undergrad was about 1200 per year. It is now 40,000 per year tuition alone
I defy you to name one item that has increased at levels beyond inflation to that extent
Blaming the borrowers is ignoring the problem
Correct, the government should not be involved with student loans, but that is a separate topic. Those who enter into bad contracts, or agreements, have only themselves to blame.
Become a marijuana farmer?
Yes, you can.
Learn to budget and cut back needless spending.
Absolutely.
Went to work from High School and after a few years working for a big company, I took advantage of the help offered to pay for college. While working and many night classes, I was able to pay as I went with help from employer.
I don’t think they do that anymore.
You can’t blame them considering what has happened to the
“universities” and the quality of the students who often do not have commitment to learning.
“ Pay the debts you owe and agreed to pay back. Losers. ”
The other thing missing in this thread is Biden came up w this plan. It benefits his as does everything he does from looking at his watch during an honor guard ceremony where he is CIC and also responsible for bad decisions, to using his drug addicted traumatized son as bag man with the world’s moth ruthless killers
Biden is not responding to anyone’s request certainly not student borrowers, tge lesdt powerful of all groups
Why do people here assume this.
FR so naive.
The borrowers made the deal. Nobody made them do it. Paying too much and buying junk usually involves only one guilty party. I do fully agree though that the product offered is over priced and of low value.
What a mentality!!!
Yes. Plugs set the precident and established the expectation..leaders and society are reflections of each other. I blame lousy voters for xiden.
When a kid owes 60 k or120 k on a loan that grows with interest, not buying beer or buying beer doesn’t matter. This is a travesty that Obama Biden put on our nation in 2009. The universities have said nothing about it.
You want to talk about a kids spending and earning? Last I checked the president of Baylor was making 5 million annually. For what? The schools have said nothing not a word.
I suspect this is about not only wanting the youth vote - which Trump has- but about avoiding the disaster to the economy that will happen when 12 years after this terrible idea -govt in charge student loan industry- the financially strapped young adults simply can not pay. That’s those who have jobs but can’t have families or property, as well as the deadbeat lazy ones
Biden does nothing for anyone.
People here pretend this is one of Bidens projects
It is his only project. What is in it for him?
FR has been taken over by naive Dems.
“I blame lousy voters for xiden.”
You think the US voters put him in?
Holy Moly - they are going to play a dangerous game here. The govt will find them. Student debt is forever
I’m pretty sure I heard Trump say he’d eliminate the Department of Education.
Says the government who made up this ponzi scheme
“you azhos”
Hoes in Arizona be not likin’ the tone of your post.
They helped. Enough or a lot. Because of the ones who support dems it does not need a lot of fraud for the win.
And there will be no consequences.
Let them know that not paying means that they will have NO CREDIT SCORE, they will not be able to get a mortgage-lease-credit card-car loan-no Tesla or other EV of their choosing-and that the IRS & Treasury Dept will automatically issue a lien on any paycheck.
You wanna dance, you gotta pay the band.
This issue is like acid dripping away on Biden support among younger voters. The economy sucks - especially for them. Many really can’t afford to make the student loan payments. The good paying jobs that would have justified the cost of a college degree just have not materialized for many of them.
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