Posted on 06/07/2015 2:33:27 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A FReeper pointed out this talented guy, who wrote a song about not paying your student loans:
It’s pretty good, but you can’t agree with his stance.
After reading this stuff, I wish he had taken out his loans with a loan shark. I’m sure he would have been persuaded to make repayment a little higher priority.
No, you are not. It is the one thing that was correct about government backed student loans. These people are now indentured whether they like it or not and this debt will haunt them until the next dem prez candidate swears to overturn their debt (which is coming.just wait)..
Isn’t astonishing how this idiot, Durden, acknowledges that the government caused the problem, but he thinks the government can fix it. With government “help’, it will only get worse.
I know lots of young people with too much college debt. They’ve been surprised by life - babies, car and home repairs, medical bills,etc - that sometimes makes them incapable of repaying their loans that they signed for as 18 year old kids. I’m not without sympathy, but this guy is just a bum.
Yes, his loans suck, BUT they are the result of his bad choices. I love how this snob thinks he’s too good for state school. I hope they start garnishing his paycheck. And I hope they start soon.
he should have done what I did, enlist in the Army then take college courses via the GI Bill..............
This prick gets no sympathy from me........
Here is a link showing the books the subject, Lee Siegel, has published. I’m assuming he’s the one with titles such as “Trance-Migrations: Stories of India, Tales of Hypnosis.” (It’s not that unusual a name, so it’s possible that some of the books on non-India topics involve another writer.)
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=siegel%2C+lee
No, actually the India author is somebody else, a professor of comparative religion at the University of Hawaii.
The bio of Lee Seigel says Siegel is a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii and member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
Can’t he use magic to come up with the money to pay off his debt? /sarc
[The relevant Lee Siegel] is the author of four books:
Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination (2006),
Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television (2007),
Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob (2008), and
Are You Serious? How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly
Some of these titles sound interesting. I’ll check my library catalog ... although I’d rather read something by the eponymous expert on magical practice in India.
Not only is he a deadbeat, he is a thief and a liar.
See my #31. The professor in Hawaii is the wrong guy.
Are all the others who have paid or are paying their loans off not deadbeats? Are these people supposed to pay others’?
No.
Is this guy? Yes.
Yes.
Do you have a e-mail address? I would like to tell him that, in my opinion, not only is he a deadbeat, he is also a thief and liar.
Moonbats don’t have a damn clue about their slavery or why the College Professors are rich beyond their years.
They are the useful idiots thinking they have something above anyone else.
They do. A MOUNTAIN of debt paid to the University in their name.
I don’t see one at any of the links I followed. You might try Facebook, keeping in mind there’s more than one guy with the same name. I’d hate for the professor in Hawaii to be hassled!
This reminds me of the summer I took a ceramics class for fun - the professor would talk down to his college-aged students for not having his own SO sophisticated world view, then had the nerve to complain that if he were paid more, he wouldn’t have to drive a mere Ford Escape. He was insufferable, and I think truly considered himself a member of the intelligentsia just barely able to tolerate us mere mortals. Unbelievable arrogance. No telling WHAT it’s like listening to him in an election year...
That was my thought too.
His “vocation” was to be a writer? And he had to abandon it because he couldn’t afford the college of his choice (which he had expected his parents to pay for)? Break out the world’s smallest violin.
Writers don’t need to go to college and take creative writing courses...they just need to read a lot, talk a lot about it with other people, and WRITE. Something that’s hard to do if you’re busy whining.
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