I wonder how far $300,000,000,000 would go on the boarder wall?
It used to be that a college degree meant something and gave you a leg up on your career. Want ads would often include "bachelor's degree" as a requirement. Nowadays, smart employers filter out college grads and look to hire those who have actual work experience beyond assembling sandwiches at Chipotle.
The problem is that everybody goes to college nowadays which means that having a college degree is no longer special. It is no longer a distinction that separates you from other applicants in the workforce. What matters now is the skills and experience you bring to the table and now it is those who didn't waste four years in college that have the leg up.
How is it that Biden can do this ?? When did our system allow a move such as this being made without some congressional oversight/approval??
Racked up $10,000 in student loans (plus another $5,000 in interest and penalties because I wasn't paying them back).
Fast forward a decade to 2006 and I get a phone call from a collection agency that they're going to garnish my wages if I didn't start giving them some money. Knowing that a wage garnishment could damage the security clearance I had at work, I came up with a payment plan.
For the next ten years I paid $125 a month, fully paying off this debt in 2016.
What a chump I was.
Where the hell is my degree? Or your degree? Since we are giving some dead beat kid a degree for free, we should have one given to us for free.
I will not hire anyone who has their loan forgiven. And I’m sure it probably would be illegal, but I would try to find out which employees had loans forgiven and would fire them too.
If they can’t meet their commitments I don’t want them working for me.
Little bass turds want everything to be FREE. The morons don’t understand that somebody has to pay for their freebies. They can afford the latest cell phone and watch that tells you how many steps you walked today but they can’t pay for four years worth of spring breaks. Jo Jo the Pedophile clown isn’t paying for their so-called socialist “student loan forgiveness.” The government isn’t paying for it. THE HARWORKING AMERICAN TAXPAYERS ARE BEING FORCED TO PAY FOR COLLEGE FOR THESE MORONS. If they had paid attention in middle school and high school, they wouldn’t need that extra four years of trying to learn something. Jerks.
So ‘nice’ that we get to pay for those wonderful (yet utterly useless) degrees in African Basket Weaving, Womyn’s Studies, Philosophy, and the like.
(I knew a former friend that DID get a B.S. in Philosophy. She went to a big-name university to get it. Went in as s0omeone who loved Jesus and came out as a God-hating, man-hating lesbian. She now works as a teacher at a community college, last I heard.)
I ask you, my fellow FReepers...WHY ARE WE PUTTING UP WITH THIS???
Students I’m seeing on social media love this and are calling Biden a hero. When it is pointed out that the taxpayers are picking up the tab, they say businesses got PPP loans forgiven so they should get their loans forgiven, also. Totally missing that PPP was intended as compensation for government-ordered shutdowns.
Biden gives COVID scammers new idea for more money what a guy what a guy.
Where are all the lawsuits, Republicans???? Every time Trump did something the commie dems always filed a lawsuit!
Biden’s going to redistribute money from responsible citizens to deadbeats who don’t pay their debts - AKA ‘the democrat base’...
The other ‘base’ group getting the windfall?
Academia. White liberal elites ‘working’ for Universities donate in the upper 90% range to democrats. Universities will have money to burn after this one... more sabbaticals, trips, “research” projects... and gobs of new inflation.