Posted on 06/08/2010 9:47:30 PM PDT by This Just In
Among the Intellectualoids
Victimology 101
By Shawn Macomber on 6.7.10 @ 6:08AM
In the Age of Obama one could be forgiven for assuming the failure of an interdisciplinary
After all, during the 2008 presidential campaign Michelle Obama frequently bemoaned the burden student loans placed on her and Barack in the years before his books became bestsellers -- "It was like Jack and his magic beans," she mused, though, as Byron York noted, Michelle's salary at University of Chicago Hospital rocketing from $121,910 in 2004 to $316,962 after her husband's election to the U.S. Senate was magical in its own way -- yet the future First Lady nonetheless urged young smarty pants to "move out of the money-making industry and into the helping industry."
"Don't go into corporate America," she pleaded, shooing virginal idealists away from the den of decadent suckers who apparently do nothing useful save foot the bill for whatever Obamian delusions of federal grandeur are to be found at the top of that statist beanstalk.
Alas, as Ron Lieber's recent New York Times piece "Placing the Blame as Students Are Buried in Debt" demonstrates, such faux-martyr vows of poverty have consequences for those without access to supernatural legumes or patronage salaries. (The Congressional Budget Office's assessment of how many magic beans will remain available to President Obama once healthcare reform is fully implemented was incomplete at press time.)
Lieber introduces us to a representative victim, Cortney Munna, holder of the previously mentioned interdisciplinary degree in religious and women's studies, a New York University graduate with $100,000 in student loan debt currently recovering from "a blind faith that the investment would be worth it."
Lieber commiserates writ large:
So in an eerie echo of the mortgage crisis, tens of thousands of people like Ms. Munna are facing a reckoning.
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Michelle Obama frequently bemoaned the burden student loans placed on her and Barack in the years before his books became bestsellers
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I didn’t think Obama paid for his schooling, maybe she was talking about her loans?
For a moment there you had me worried. I thought you were going to post some shot of Michelle Obama and her Lee Haney arms.
I think she’s finally proud of her country..
Anyone dumb enough to sink $100K into a degree in women's studies gets no sympathy from me.
Yeah, but with a degree like that, she's all set to be a really good victim.
How much do you think that gig could be worth?
With that degree, she’s now a professional victim. Ms. Munna needs to stand in front of a mirror and repeat this:
“Hi, I’m Cortney and I’ll be your Barista.”
Our eldest is pursuing a bachelors and has accumulated half of the credits required. Hasn’t borrowed a dime, and doesn’t intend to.
Fortunately, his grades are only suitable for community college, so two years there and two years to finish up in a 4-year college (Hoepfully Hillsdale).
Financial plans are to leverage my pension from where I was laid off along with scholarships to insure that he graduates without any debt.
I don't want him to start out with both feet in financial buckets of cement.
Medicine, law, accounting, engineering, MBA....MIGHT pay off. Well, at least before Obamanomics took over.
Women’s studies, philosophy, music, art, etc....get a degree in whatever floats your boat, but don’t go into debt because you won’t make any money.
Doesn’t anyone go to a state school and work their way through any more?
People are just stupid and the nanny state is creating infantile adults!
Our child is currently attending a jc. Can’t beat $25 per credit compared to $200+ per at the college he’ll be transferring to. Why pay that kind of money just to complete your core courses? He’s also CLEPing out of some of the courses. It’s a money and time saver.
Sounds like you’re on the right track.
“I don’t want him to start out with both feet in financial buckets of cement.”
Our thoughts exactly.
“Doesnt anyone go to a state school and work their way through any more?”
Not from where I’m standing, unfortunately. To start out in life after college with such dept is obscene. It sets a lot of people up to fail, then rely on the federal government to bail them out.
Receiving a college degree w/out accumulating such dept is possible. Unfortunately people have been conditioned to believe it’s the only way.
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