Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

'It feels like enslavement': This working mom owes $240,000 in student loans. Now she's fighting for full cancellation to live her American Dream 'freely.'
Insider via Yahoo ^ | August 28, 2022 | Taylor Ardrey

Posted on 08/28/2022 12:02:29 PM PDT by grundle

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140141-154 next last
To: rarestia

I had the opportunity to take out just as many students’ loans and did not. maybe the sensible thing would have been taking a break and working between grad, undergrad and PHD...if you can’t immediately get hired and get paid enough to pay back the loans in the field you are studying dot take out a loan.


121 posted on 08/28/2022 2:14:16 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (`)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: grundle

I see no one bothered to post the “tiny violin” photo. If I had it, I don’t think I would bother to post it either.

#NotEvenTinyViolinWorthy


122 posted on 08/28/2022 2:15:14 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: HamiltonJay

If she has a deadbeat husband, she will easily qualify for the 300 grand level..
And if single, she may still sneak in under the 150 grand level, depending on how they value benefits.


123 posted on 08/28/2022 2:15:15 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 118 | View Replies]

To: edhawk

My boss’s daughter got a PhD in Engineering for free.


124 posted on 08/28/2022 2:17:29 PM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 110 | View Replies]

To: fedupjohn

Always amazes me that whiners like this NEVER put any blame on their college for the exorbitant cost of a degree. Utterly clueless. And she wants her kids to be victims, too.


125 posted on 08/28/2022 2:17:38 PM PDT by Ford4000
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation

So she’s doubly stupid for leasing a car


126 posted on 08/28/2022 2:18:56 PM PDT by cyclotic (Follow 1776Restorationmovement.com fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 119 | View Replies]

To: cyclotic

You think she gonna park a Corolla in that Principal’s reserved parking slot at the ‘hood academy?


127 posted on 08/28/2022 2:20:15 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 126 | View Replies]

To: joshua c

I heard a woman caller on a conservative talk show Friday saying she called about her student loan because the amount was higher than what she borrowed. It had been years since she quit school and had not paid any back yet. They told her it was higher because of interest.

She didn’t know what interest was and was complaining no one told her about that.

Don’t they teach compound interest in high school anymore?
Don’t they teach you to read a financial agreement before you sign it?


128 posted on 08/28/2022 2:22:56 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: grundle

She should have better “planned for her future” years ago. She made plans and pursued those goals. It’s not my fault her plans were faulty.

At no time in her college years did she take a look at the amounts of money she was borrowing and think, “Wow, is the path I’m on going to allow me to pay that debt?”. Nope. She just kept on borrowing with her final plan being to have someone else pay for her mistakes.


129 posted on 08/28/2022 2:26:59 PM PDT by CFW
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nascarnation

If as principal she wanted to be a good example she would.


130 posted on 08/28/2022 2:27:49 PM PDT by cyclotic (Follow 1776Restorationmovement.com fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 127 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

“Deadbeat.”

You got that right!


131 posted on 08/28/2022 2:32:07 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: grundle

GibMeDat!


132 posted on 08/28/2022 2:32:19 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NorthMountain
OK ... I see the tiny "slash-S" ...

I thought that was a speck of dust on my screen.

133 posted on 08/28/2022 2:46:44 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: antidemoncrat
I used to work with and Engineer who had a PHD and was extremely sharp and he use to say the the PHD after his name meant Post Hole Digger.

I always heard that the BS degree stood for BullS**t, MS for More Of The Same, and PHD was Piled Higher And Deeper.

134 posted on 08/28/2022 3:44:22 PM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 89 | View Replies]

To: grundle

From the article: “My hope is that if my student loan debt balance is canceled, I can start saving for them and planning for their future,” she said. “But I’m also hoping that we can get a free college education so that I don’t have to also worry about how to finance their future either.”

There’s the Money Shot... her ‘hope’ is that the kids get free college education...
Wheteher or not that happens, it’s clear that most colleges have endowments that could be applied ot tuitions and costs, but they choose not to so apply them.
There are alternatives to borrowing, IMO. Smaller course loads, lower fees, apprenticeships that cover some or all of the costs. And so forth...


135 posted on 08/28/2022 3:48:24 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lurkinanloomin

I like how she continued to go to school because she couldn’t pay back her initial student loan and that’s how she ended up with so much debt


136 posted on 08/28/2022 4:15:29 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Giant meteor 2022!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: grundle

Big College fat cats are laughing. My wife’s father spent $210 PER YEAR to go through City College of New York. She spent about $450 per semester. Now it is about $15,000.


137 posted on 08/28/2022 6:01:18 PM PDT by montag813
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: grundle

Principals of schools, make $150K a year with benefits. Maybe she should have gone to CC, then took 2 years of college to become just a teacher. I don’t care if she chokes on her debt. How much was used for spring break, Christmas for kids, trips to Mazatlan etc?


138 posted on 08/28/2022 7:57:36 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Seriously, what ever happened to Campaign finance limits?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: aMorePerfectUnion

There is $30 Trillion in debt just in the US. Adding in all unfunded liabilities, it is closer to $300 Trillion just in the US.


139 posted on 08/28/2022 8:01:42 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Seriously, what ever happened to Campaign finance limits?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 41 | View Replies]

To: leaning conservative
What about the father’s contribution?

What makes you think she has any idea who her father is?

140 posted on 08/28/2022 8:07:14 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140141-154 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson