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
Not only is he a deadbeat, he is a thief and a liar.
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.
***Master of Philosophy: Columbia University***
“Oh, A Bull s#1t artist!”-from Mel Brooks’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD PART 1.
A deadbeat's a deadbeat. Mr. Siegel is as low on the bottom of the ocean as whale turds and Wall Street firms.
Look for Obama to issue an executive order forgiving student loan debt before he departs the White House.
This BS won't stop until colleges have to cosign these loans.
He knows he is a deadbeat but has yet to come to terms with the fact that he is a self centered dick.
I did not think that it was possible to discharge student loan debts in bankruptcy. If he did not declare bankruptcy and just stopped paying on the debt, that just means he will have no medicare or social security when he reaches retirement age (if he expected any to begin with).
Yes, he’s a deadbeat...but...is he really any more of a deadbeat than GM or Chrysler, who, through years of mismanagement ended up being social welfare companies that, oh by the way, also made cars and trucks. The bond and shareholders were shafted while the management and unions made out. And what about the colleges and universities that kept raising their tuitions forcing their students to mortgage their futures, and the Federal government that subsidized loans, thus subverting their true cost, and the finance companies that gladly wrote the loans even though they should’ve known they’d probably not be repaid (hence the change making the loans exempt from bankrupcy)
To quote Judge Smails from Caddyshack: Well, the world needs ditch diggers too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiRGRvE_Wqg
Instead of guaranteeing loans, the government would have to guarantee a college education. There are a lot of people who could learn to live with that, too.
And that would be as successful as the guaranteed high school education now. Just imagine fights over common core for a bachelor's degree.
The author almost makes the connection from the high cost of education to the free flow of government guaranteed money, either through grants or loans. But then he swerves off and suggests that all of higher education be nationalized. He saw the light at the end of the tunnel, but slammed into the tunnel wall to avoid it.
So Lee Siegel shows up at the local Albertsons, at the crack of 10:30 am, for his first day of work.
Lee greets the Manager and shakes his hand!
The Manager gives Lee a brand new broom.
Lee stutters, buttt butt I have a Master of Philosophy from Columbia University!!!
The Store Manager is gobsmacked, then apologizes for the misunderstanding. Lee, look here, I will show you how to use a Broom
Deadbeat | 1. a person who deliberately avoids paying debts. 2. a loafer; sponger. adjective
If the shoe fits .....
Nobody forced him to go to that school.
Nobody forced him to take out loans.
Nobody forced him to to rack up massiver personal debt.
Once he got worried about debt nobody forced him to continue going to the school instead of going to a less expensive school.
Nobody forced him to take a crappy major that wasn’t worth half of what he paid for it.
Nobody forced him into a field of study that is not a high paying field, but it sure can be an easy major to do a lot of partying while at school.
PERSONAL CHOICES AND PERSONAL CONSEQUENCES.
All the academic losers, who took easy stupid majors, are now frmaing themselves as victims of the system. They want everyone else to bail them out because it’s unfair their education cost so much and now they can’t make big bucks like people who studied hard and graduated with degrees that will get them good work earning decent to very good money.
I saw all these types at school. They were the ones drunk walking down the street to the next party, while I was coming home from the library from studying. ANd I was going home to keep studying.
If there were justice in this world, he'd lose his house, car and job, and his paycheck would be encumbered to pay back the loan in full– with interest accruing the entire time.
While we're on it, in keeping with the tactics of the Left, I propose that we prosecute Climate Change Promoters with feloniously trying to cause a panic– same as yelling fire in a movie house. Jail the lying sob's.