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>>You are one callous son of a b!tch. May your words rise to greet you heartily.<<

Which part is callous? The idea that responsibility is something people need to embrace or the fact I have no sympathy for people who make extremely bad decisions and then cry over them? “Religion and Womyn’s Studies” — think about it.

I paid my debts — and it wasn’t easy and took 10 years (which was my agreement). I guess it IS callous to think others should do the same.

I suppose it is callous of me to think that paying your mortgage should be done as well.

Dang, this must be my DU account and I wasn’t paying attention...

The banking-higher-ed system is saddling these kids with debts they will not be able to pay back in twenty years. Easy money empowers the creeps, snakes and most vulgar to wipe out the herd. Where are the adults? These kids, most of them, come out of coddled lives in public schools where they no real math skills. Most can't balance a checkbook, much less have any real idea of what even simple interest on a loan is. They accept what their elders tell them, and that message is dominated by the ones pushing these loans. Used to be no kid could sign a contract for such an loan until they were 21. The older generation changed that too. The 'older' generation dumbed down math in schools, lowered the age of contract, created a cultural atmosphere of buying on credit.

The 'older' generation took plush jobs, tenure, pensions, benefits, sabbaticals, in universities en masse -- like fat slobbering over-fed house cats, not worried at all for the student life experience -- which is amoral chaos at best and tragically immoral indoctrination at worst. Layers and layers of edcu-crats added to the cost burden, the bills for colleges are through the roof. Almost nothing rose faster in cost than a college degree.

Can you pay back a $100,000 plus loan making less than #35K a year?

That 35K a year is high today except in some fields. There just aren't many jobs.

You paid your debt because you were damn lucky, in timing and in many things.

The kids trusted the older generation, their teachers, parents, society. We f**ked them over. We are f**king them over. That's the truth of it.