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“I Can’t Even Retire If I Wanted To”: People With Student Loan Debt Get Real About Biden’s Plan Being On Hold
Buzzfeed ^ | 11/25/2022 | Vanessa Wong

Posted on 11/25/2022 12:32:56 PM PST by simpson96

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To: simpson96

Whose fault is all this but those that took out the loans?


61 posted on 11/25/2022 2:39:51 PM PST by Kazan
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To: NorthMountain

If the fed gov didnt back them and these were conventional loans thats exactly what would happen.


62 posted on 11/25/2022 2:43:09 PM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: simpson96

Your ‘beef’ is with the educational system that fleeced you in the first place.


63 posted on 11/25/2022 2:45:05 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: simpson96

I am crying deep tears....NOT.......

They borrowed the money. Now they, and not me, need to pay it back.


64 posted on 11/25/2022 2:55:59 PM PST by Revel
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To: simpson96

I’ll bet you if I spent one hour reviewing their life style and spending choices I could point out dozens of ways they could have paid down their student loans.

Want to bet 95% are buying $6.00 coffees, traveling for pleasure, spending on non-essentials etc etc?

Sorry, not sorry.


65 posted on 11/25/2022 2:57:45 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: usconservative
You can't retire bdcause of your student loans? Exactly how is that MY problem you entitled little pricks! Pay back what you owe!! The rest of us did and we're retiring so F.U.!!!

THIS!

66 posted on 11/25/2022 3:00:50 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: simpson96

This is nonsense. You can get an income driven repayment plan for student loans.


67 posted on 11/25/2022 3:23:46 PM PST by rey
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To: simpson96
About 15 years ago, when my kids were in high school, I started taking them on college tours. I was stunned by the opulence of the student dorms, health clubs and other facilities. I aspire to someday live in such luxury. Easy student loan money only resulted in skyrocketing tuition and bottomless funding of facilities and professor salaries.

My kids all chose to go to community colleges and state universities and worked their way through college (one worked full time for two years between high school and college) so that they could graduate without any debt. Now I wonder if I should have encouraged them to borrow away so they could go to expensive private universities and live it up with most of their high school friends.

68 posted on 11/25/2022 3:34:43 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: rey
You can get an income driven repayment plan for student loans.

The word "repayment" is what the entitled snowflakes don't like. How DARE you suggest it?


69 posted on 11/25/2022 3:38:12 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: IYAS9YAS

He was actually pretty entertaining.☃️☃️☃️🍐


70 posted on 11/25/2022 3:40:43 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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To: simpson96

These people are living proof that having a college education does not always equate to having INTELLIGENCE.


71 posted on 11/25/2022 3:42:02 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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To: simpson96

These people let themselves down and blame literally “everything else” for their situation.

When they do good, where has my dividend payment been from them? When they do bad they expect me and everyone else to pay for THEIR bad personal financial decisions.

I paid my loans off. Now I have to pay millions of other peoples loans off, that they voluntarily signed a contract for? They decided to go to expensive schools, no one forced them to go there.

Its assinine.


72 posted on 11/25/2022 3:51:52 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: simpson96
“I Can’t Even Retire If I Wanted To”

I have had that same problem ever since I was about 15, and I didn't even take out a student loan. I might just have to wait until I can afford to.

73 posted on 11/25/2022 3:51:58 PM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: Kaiser8408a

It was single women most swayed by this, and the voting stats proved it. Younger, not married, holding 2/3 of college debt and in mostly low or worthless degrees, no husbank to pay their debt off for them.

It worked. Most young single women are liberal and have the above attributes. They like the idea of government bailout and telling them they are entitled to it.


74 posted on 11/25/2022 3:55:25 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: simpson96

These people haven’t made a loan payment in over two years. Now they are full of angst because they already had big steak dinners and bought expensive vacations with the money Brandon promised. No sympathy from this end of paradise.


75 posted on 11/25/2022 3:56:27 PM PST by NautiNurse (There was a 2022 mid-term Red Wave...in Florida! )
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To: simpson96

It is a sad time when you have to explain that illegal immigration is against the law, that debts must be repaid, that men do not get pregnant or suckle babies (I’m not making this up).

Moving on to something more challenging.

Global Warming predicts mild winters. Climate Change explains extremely cold winter weather after the fact. They are not the same theory. Choose one, or the other, or neither. Don’t choose to believe both theories; that wouldn’t make sense.

Black Americans commit crimes disproportionately. It is not necessarily racist to arrest and convict Black Americans disproportionately. Black Americans are less likely to meet sensible lending standards. It is not necessarily racist to provide proportionately fewer loans to Blacks Americans.

Democrats blame everyone else for the sins of Democrats. That includes slavery, segregation, racism, disenfranchisement of Blacks, and racism. Just don’t fall for it.

The efficacy and safety of an experimental vaccine, such as the mRNA Wuhan virus vaccine, is initially unknown.


76 posted on 11/25/2022 3:59:54 PM PST by ChessExpert (Dem mandates: slavery, segregation, Indian removal, experimental vaccines)
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To: simpson96

I didn’t pay the minimum so instead of taking 30 years it took 6 years. My daughter who is not paying her student loans castigated me for paying my loans and not taking her to Disney land. So I ruined her childhood.


77 posted on 11/25/2022 4:08:15 PM PST by the_daug ( )
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To: Kaiser8408a
Biden is such a despicable person. He KNEW that the courts would block it, he just wanted the votes.

How do you think they harvested addresses of good little democrats to send ballots to.Then they knew exactly where to go to pick them up.

78 posted on 11/25/2022 4:18:20 PM PST by krizzy (Never underestimate Joes ability to F things up. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How dumb are today’s college students? Apparently they are not smart enough to calculate loan payback time frames. Maybe they are just deadbeats trying to beat the system.


79 posted on 11/25/2022 4:22:15 PM PST by chopperk
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To: simpson96
I worked my arse off through college, and the only loans I took
were from my parents. These were not very large loans and
I paid them back.

I have from time to time given thought to getting an 'advanced'
degree - but I have never been able to answer the 'Why?' question.

Yes - I continually learn new things that enable me to do what
it is that I do BETTER - but I don't feel the need for a degree for that.
I impress with my knowledge and skills, what I can do,
what I produce - not with a degree.

I'm a self-taught person. College technology curricula are almost always very dated.

I'm just a usually self-employed or freelance kind of guy.
This has it's drawbacks as well as benefits.
I'm just not a corporate 'hive-drone' - never have been.

I'm a pragmatic creative technology guy.

.

ME:

"Just get out of my way and I'll get it to work, Okay?
Go drink coffee or something...
"

80 posted on 11/25/2022 4:30:10 PM PST by GaltAdonis
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