Posted on 04/25/2019 5:41:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
For me, it was a morning paper route, getting up at 4 or 4:30 every morning, rain, snow, etc. from grammar school until high school. Collecting from my customers, paying my bill to the paper, having spending money for my expenses, occasionally helping my Mom with groceries, etc.
Family farming is a much more comprehensive education, though!
If parents would make their kids spend one hour playing Sim City and one hour playing Farm Sim for each hour spent playing Angry Birds or Zombie Blaster, that alone would be a bit of education.
If the schools scheduled one Saturday a month for pulling kudzu or patching potholes or cleaning grafitti off of buildings & street signs, the kids might “learn a thing or two”...
Confiscate 1 percent of all college endowments per year until all student loan debt is paid. This will force colleges to stop issuing stupid loans. Stupid loans deserve a stupid tax.
Parents like me ain't co-signing for that crap anymore. My 17YO son knows it...I told him I'm not paying for a damn thing until he gets his grades up and starts growing up.
He's on a fast track to community college, where he can get his prerequisites out of the way, while working part time to pay for it.
I wish one of the medias superb investigative journalists would address what caused the "crisis" in the "Student Loan Crisis".
Worth repeating in large font.
I got through college on an academic scholarship and waited tables 20 to 25 hours per week.
I lived at home or in a dorm (much cheaper than an apartment), didn’t have a car, and rode my bicycle everywhere, including in the Phoenix summer months when the temperature was 115 degrees. I did not wear designer jeans, didn’t carry a designer purse, didn’t have salon manicures and pedicures, almost never ate at restaurants, didn’t have a credit card nor used my parents’ credit cards. It was a very frugal existence but it was only 4 years out of my life.
I majored in engineering, a degree I knew would result in many lucrative job offers. I graduated with no debt and $3000 in the bank—this was back in 1985. Everything I owned at the time could fit into my parents’ station wagon.
Mr. Roo Roo had a similar college experience—worked his way through college, was dirt poor while he did it, had no trouble getting good-paying jobs after college.
When I read about spoiled millenial snowflakes who racked up $50k plus in loans for stupid degrees like Spanish literature, communications, sociology, I just shake my head in amazement. These little brats SHOULD NOT have their debts forgiven. They screwed up, and now they should pay the price—and hopefully learn from their own stupid mistakes.
“The point though of somebody borrowing more than they can pay back is spot on but it goes to show ya how damaging government interference can be on a persons life.”
The Federal Government has existed for decades on the idea of borrowing more than it can pay back so that the people in power can do the things they want - like give favors to people who in turn get them re-elected.
No one should be surprised that they favor the idea that they don’t see a problem with individuals doing the same thing.
First, get the Feds out of the student loan business. Second, make student loans available only from the universities.
If universities are on the hook for the loan, they will only loan money to those degree candidates who are likely to be able to pay it back after graduation. A positive long term effect of this policy will be a reduction in the number of ‘studies’ degree plans and an emphasis on degrees that will produce productive graduates who will become productive citizens. Another long term effect is that tuition prices will likely plummet.
Democrats create disasters and offer solutions that enslave the recipient into even deeper debt.
I Had a neighbor whose daughter got a B.S. in French from McGill and was $100,000 in debt!!
I partly blame lazy HR people for the problem, requiring a degree as part of the job requirement. Indeed, most advertisements don't specify exactly what kind of degree, which is why some students elect "gender studies" as a major.
So, under the concept that subsidizing something makes it more attractive, and taxing something makes it less attractive:
Impose a $100 tax on any job description that calls for a degree without specifying the subject matter of the degree.
So a job description including "college degree" would be subject to the tax, while "college degree in Computer Science" would not be.
That change would signal to students that some degrees are worth more than others.
My beef with student loans is that the government and other sources are charging as much as 7 to 8 percent.
After 2008, the rate should be locked at 25 basis points above the discount window TO PAY US BACK FOR THE MESS THEY MADE WHICH BLEW UP IN 2008 AND CONTINUES TO THIS VERY DAY!!!
So pisses me off. 239 Trillion in derivatives minus collateral out there still to unwind.
Little guy will continue to pay.
There is one thing that everyone of the debtors can do but no one is suggesting it. They can all get a second job until their debt is paid. Plenty of single moms have more than one job and so can they. Just because they have a college degree does not prevent them from taking a night job at Walmart or a C-store until the loan is paid. Most of them made a stupid decision and they don’t want to accept the responsibility for it.
If the Feds give a gift to all who owe a student loan, what are they prepared to do for all who don’t owe anything. Fair is fair.
There is one thing that everyone of the debtors can do but no one is suggesting it. They can all get a second job until their debt is paid. Plenty of single moms have more than one job and so can they. Just because they have a college degree does not prevent them from taking a night job at Walmart or a C-store until the loan is paid. Most of them made a stupid decision and they don’t want to accept the responsibility for it.
If the Feds give a gift to all who owe a student loan, what are they prepared to do for all who don’t owe anything. Fair is fair.
“...absolved by being a “community organizer” in Rat enclaves?”
That, of course, would be the urban answer for many municipalities.
And yes, this abuse would be used frequently. But again, not as part of any Federal make-work program. This would have to be on the local level, and the agency would have to take over the ultimate responsibility for the remaining outstanding balance. The individual remains on the hook for any unfulfilled portion of the debt not discharged in this manner.
In old legal parlance, this is called a “bond servant”. After so many years at intern wages (or no wages at all), the obligation is discharged, and like a person released from prison, the debt to society is paid.
Lower the interest rate from 10% to something more like a mortgage. My daughter pays and pays and the principal hardly drops.
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