Student loans are very burdensome. It’s basically a 10 year mortgage on your life.
Want to bet they bought a house, two cars, furniture, appliances, lawn mower, etc etc and then kiddie comes along and what do you know - he has medical problems.
I can see the bias from here - the medical problems causes them to be in such dire straits, and it can only be solved by HillaryCare.
Sounds like the lady who drove her new RV to the democrat political rally, and had to pick up cans along the highway to buy food for her dog.
Stupid is as stupid does. Hey, if you have a fancy-ass house or apartment, and 2 car payments, and have to “curb your recreational spending” and are living paycheck to paycheck, you are an idiot. Sure, sometimes stuff comes up and bites you in the ass, but living like this should not be a lifestyle.
Run your life like a business. Income MUST exceed outgo. Oh yeah, pay yoursself, too! Dump a chunk of your paycheck into a retirement fund. The power of coumpouding interest is amazing!
If you look at student loans as an investment; i.e., what your expected return will be, they need not be a burden.
A smart "investor" doesn't lay down $75,000 for an education, to take a job that pays $30,000/year.
I agree, and I'm seeing more and more articles like this. Hillary! or the DNC must have released a talking points memo.
As for spending yourself into debt, it's hard for me to be sympathetic. Within reason (and I say that, becuase there's always some wiseacre FReeper that says "So, did you pay cash for your house??!") you shouldn't spend money that you don't have. It's a philosophy that's worked pretty well for me. :-)
Just another plug-in module in the larger whole, huh.
“I can see the bias from here - the medical problems causes them to be in such dire straits, and it can only be solved by HillaryCare.”
You’re imagining things. That was the only mention of medical problems in the whole piece.
As a parent of a with asthma and a special needs child who is extremely expensive, I am not swayed to go to HillaryCare.
I want less taxes, or tax breaks so that I can continue to send my special needs daughter to a private school (because the public school was failing her), or tax breaks to help pay for speech, occupational, and other therapies.
There are tax breaks after you’ve spent so much of your income on therapies, but we haven’t reached that breaking point yet. We also can use our Flexible Spending Account for therapies but it is capped at 3000 for a family of 5, and that barely covers braces and our medical deductible.
Good catch. I suspect we'll be seeing lots more of this kind of thing as the election gets closer.