Add to it....you didn’t exactly go and get yourself a degree that holds value (like electrical engineer, or chemist).
The general problem with Joe’s thought process and his handlers...a lot of people went and did the stupid route (having $80k in debt) and then worked their butt off to pay it off in ten years. So they are sitting there now...age 45, and pretty hostile over their effort to do the right thing, and bunch of losers standing there with jobs that can’t possibly end this economic mess for at least 25 years.
Joe might have been able to write some tax credit here....where the stupid-idiots could claim for each year they paid off part of their loan, they got $2k in tax credit. It wouldn’t amount to much but at least it didn’t aggravate the non-degree crowd like they are now.
I don’t see any of this ending in a positive manner at this point. Too many deep debt folks.....too many idiots with degrees of marginal value....too many regular working-class folks without degrees....and a political mess without any solution.
Right. And if the universities themselves were on the hook for it — as they should be — , you might see them charging different tuition rates for an engineering degree as opposed to a women’s studies degree.
“too many regular working-class folks without degrees”
Not to nit pick you but currently I am a working class folk that currently does not have a degree though I work in the IT field and have many certifications, I didn’t know that was an issue on here.
Let’s see.
Have a BSc in Computer Science and Aviation Business Administration from a top school, a MSc in Aeronautical Science and Aviation Business Administration (same top school), a separate MSc in Information Systems for HBCU (through the military), PhD work in Computer Science (no dissertation yet)
And I can’t get a job in my field, as the Uniparty has deemed those jobs belong to Indians only.
So I guess I’m paying off my student loans at $5 a month, as I’m unemployable.
And these degrees are not exactly underwater basketweaving or * studies