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'I'm working my butt off': Hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites back on the hook for student loans
Channel 3000 News ^ | July 1, 2023 | Channel 3000 Staff

Posted on 07/01/2023 7:30:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Bagly is working 3 jobs OMG that college degree sure made his life a hell of a lot better LOL, LOL, LOL!!!!


61 posted on 07/01/2023 8:18:33 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"...it's just having to work so hard and so much just to get there." -- Whining Sid Bagley.

Sid, you should have been born 70 years ago. We all were born with silver spoons in our mouths. Education was free. The engineering courses were all easy and everybody got straight As. We were all immediately hired at $150,000 (inflation adjusted) and with no college loan debt. We all made VP after two years of light work where we showed up only a couple days a week and spent most of the time on the golf course. The sun shone every day and the soft balmy breezes were delightful. Plus, every guy had two gorgeous babes hanging off his arms.

I tell you, times were so easy back then. It's a shame you were born so late, Sid.

62 posted on 07/01/2023 8:20:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
“I hated my job so much I made the initiative to go back to school and do something better,” said Bagley

The idiom is “take the initiative”. While ‘make’ and ‘take’ are both transitive verbs and can be used with ‘initiative’, only ‘take’ is used. Who speaks this way? I guess we know. People who make poor choices and pin their hopes on unconstitutional fantasies. Perhaps some people don’t belong in college.

63 posted on 07/01/2023 8:22:28 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
'I'm working my butt off'

That is what I did in the early 70s to pay off college loans. It took 4 years, but I never missed a payment.

I did graduate in 3 year and 3 months -- summer sessions, etc. -- so I wouldn't have to pay for a 4th year.

These current deadbeats need to reorder their priorities.


64 posted on 07/01/2023 8:25:15 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: silverleaf

And exactly the kind of mindset set the dims want. Someone dependent on gubmint.


65 posted on 07/01/2023 8:25:33 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: slapshot

I was paying off the loan then (±1981), but I do not remember the interest rate. (I do not think it was that high) I had just gotten married, my husband was laid off shortly after the marriage, and we were still dealing with the mess that was left by Jimmy Carter.

I do not have much sympathy for moochers.


66 posted on 07/01/2023 8:26:39 AM PDT by madison10
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To: budj

You forgot “through the snow”.


67 posted on 07/01/2023 8:28:25 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
a total that adds up to more than $20 billion

That's a lot of money to end up with a bunch of Harvard MBA's who become VP of Marketing for Bud Light or something similar. Maybe they could work it off by taking in an illegal as a tenant for a few months - or years.

68 posted on 07/01/2023 8:29:41 AM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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To: escapefromboston

Exactly. They were doing 7% annual increases while the rest of the country was getting 2-3% raises for years. Then they wonder why some people question going to college altogether.


69 posted on 07/01/2023 8:33:31 AM PDT by CommieCutter
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To: FlingWingFlyer

You forgot “dung beetle turd roller party donations”.


70 posted on 07/01/2023 8:33:37 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Hey President Retard I want a refund on all the loans I paid off decades ago


71 posted on 07/01/2023 8:34:28 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: dfwgator

Those items are life sustaining items for this crowd but I am sure next is good, shelter, Xbox….. they are owed…./s


72 posted on 07/01/2023 8:39:08 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; All

I don’t get the problem, why cant they just identify as wealthy?


73 posted on 07/01/2023 8:39:30 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Sap that I was, I paid off my home mortgage, and my car loan. I even pay my credit card in full every month. No one told me that loan repayment was optional.

Gee, I wonder what would happen to the world economy if loan repayment becomes optional?

It’s kind of like nationalizing foreign assets. Venezuela was a rich country, then they decided to nationalize the oil companies. How’d that work out?

It turns out that stealing has its drawbacks, even when legal.


74 posted on 07/01/2023 8:39:34 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Required for informed consent: "We have a new, experimental vaccine.")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I guess they didn’t see that coming when they took out the loan and agreed to pay it back.


75 posted on 07/01/2023 8:39:34 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!)
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To: healy61
I work three jobs just to make a decent living for myself

So the real problem is that the economy does not allow him a decent lifestyle on one job, or even two.

I blame the maker of the present economy for his problems ...

And in WI, he might have even voted for Trump, only to see his vote erased overnight.

76 posted on 07/01/2023 8:45:04 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
'm working my butt off, I work three jobs just to make a decent living for myself,”

"What you mean only three jobs, you lazy lima bean!"

77 posted on 07/01/2023 8:47:27 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

And we ate dirt, and we were thankful for the dirt.

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When I was growing up, I had one toy to play with. It was a stick and I had to share it with eight siblings..


78 posted on 07/01/2023 8:48:43 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Celebrating 42 years of sobriety this year, thank you Heavenly Father.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
No worries, students!

Deep State has options for you...

3 ways federal student loan borrowers can have their debt forgiven—without the Supreme Court

Indentured servitude's not so bad, eh?

Great bennies and decent salary fot little actual work.

And you'll be helping Deep State grow the bureaucracy, increasing Deep State's chances of ensuring our former republic is never restored.

Bet you lot are up for THAT, eh?

79 posted on 07/01/2023 8:48:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
The Supreme Court struck down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan on Friday, a measure that would have wiped out nearly half a trillion dollars in debt for millions of Americans.

No, that is a lie. This measure would not have wiped out one dollar in debt. It simply would have transfered that debt over from the people who agreed to pay for the education they received over to the national debt of all Americans.

80 posted on 07/01/2023 8:50:33 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus
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