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Federal student loan forgiveness program fulfills an elusive promise: To erase debts
NBC News ^ | 01/27/2022 | Erik Ortiz

Posted on 01/27/2022 5:37:19 PM PST by Az Joe

Over 70,000 student borrowers have qualified for debt forgiveness since the Department of Education overhauled the program last fall. But another deadline is looming.


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KEYWORDS: forgiven; freelunches; studentloan
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Some people have paid all they can each month and their balances still go up. I agree with forgiving most student loans. The colleges they went to are worthless anyway so it's like they were sold a product under false pretense.
1 posted on 01/27/2022 5:37:19 PM PST by Az Joe
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It should be bankrupted, but of course it can’t be.


2 posted on 01/27/2022 5:39:51 PM PST by teevolt
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Nope....they took out the loans knowing the terms. You borrow you pay it back.


3 posted on 01/27/2022 5:40:23 PM PST by ealgeone
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Slow Joe BiXiden has an ongoing, increasing debt to me that he needs to repay.


4 posted on 01/27/2022 5:41:34 PM PST by Paladin2
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Don't forgive a penny of their debt. Make them take their colleges and universities to court for fraud. Give their money back to them via restitution. Bankrupt every damned so-called school, and the people that indoctrinate from them.

Above all, completely end any form of government funding.

5 posted on 01/27/2022 5:41:35 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Hungering and thirsting for rhiteousness...)
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To: Az Joe

Claw back the tuition.


6 posted on 01/27/2022 5:42:07 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ealgeone

What about the worthless colleges with their worthless degrees? Let the college eat it!


7 posted on 01/27/2022 5:45:48 PM PST by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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So... if some buys something with cash that does not turn out to be all they had hoped, to bad so sad. BUT... if they bought it on credit then we will pony up to cover their bill.

How about....

NO!

Thank you.

8 posted on 01/27/2022 5:46:17 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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Cancel interest on the debt. Sue the institution for fraud to have the debt transferred to that entity. Many universities have large endowments that could cover the debt.
I have a problem with cancelling this debt because our family worked hard to graduate three kids with as little debt as possible, only one had $35K debt for a PharmD (6years) and that was taken care of with the signing bonus


9 posted on 01/27/2022 5:46:37 PM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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Yet the big corps who took the big PP loans for Covid didn’t have to pay it back. Guess it’s easier to screw college students than big privileged corporations.


10 posted on 01/27/2022 5:47:47 PM PST by circlecity
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Disagree. They signed a promissory note and agreed to pay back the loans with interest. Millions of others paid back their loans in full, or their parents paid with cash after saving and investing carefully for 18 years. Half this nation didn’t go to college, many because they couldn’t afford it. Had they known their loans would be written off, perhaps they would have.

Moreover, more student loans are disbursed daily. Should we disburse them daily, and write them off the next day? If so, we’ve changed the definition of the word “loan.”

College degrees aren’t worthless; they are extremely valuable over a career lifetime. Particularly if the degree is chosen wisely.


11 posted on 01/27/2022 5:48:02 PM PST by olivia3boys
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“Some people have paid all they can each month and their balances still go up. I agree with forgiving most student loans. The colleges they went to are worthless anyway so it’s like they were sold a product under false pretense.”

Then I assume you would support the refund of the $100 a month for about 17 years I put in to a college fund to pay for my son’s college so he would not have to take loans?


12 posted on 01/27/2022 5:51:14 PM PST by suthener ( )
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No, you should have known better being a Conservative.


13 posted on 01/27/2022 5:53:57 PM PST by Az Joe ("Scratch a Liberal, and a Fascist bleeds")
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Don’t care how worthless they consider the college or their degree. They made the deal and need to pay for it. I can’t believe any individual this day and time (no matter what their tender age is) isn’t aware what a scam these loans are and go along just to get that sheepskin so they can continue to receive unearned advantages over those who were fiscally responsible. I’ve personally witnessed engineers on the job who were unable to perform basic math. It’s been a scheme for as long as there has been loans/financial aid on both the part of the colleges and students. The taxpayer needs to cast all of this adrift and the students who were scammed (or not) need to pony up.


14 posted on 01/27/2022 5:55:58 PM PST by taxpayerfatigue (Taxpayer Fatigue)
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“. . . screw college students . . ..”

What about those married (or unmarried) 25-28-year olds who paid about 20% on college costs and the remaining 80% of the loans on cars, grass, and general living expenses to avoid working an extra (or ANY) job?


15 posted on 01/27/2022 5:58:28 PM PST by oldplayer
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Don’t hold the taxpayers responsible. Have the college repay the loans out of their endowments.


16 posted on 01/27/2022 6:00:29 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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I paid mine off. Are they going to refund me?


17 posted on 01/27/2022 6:01:57 PM PST by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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Not to mention they took class after class knowing how worthless those classes were.


18 posted on 01/27/2022 6:05:52 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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Am all for student loan “forgiveness” as long as it comes out of the endowments of the woke Universities that exploited dumb 18-year olds for the student loan dollars.


19 posted on 01/27/2022 6:18:33 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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The perps are the colleges for offering worthless courses of no intellectual content, the students who have no intellectual abilities, and the corrupt gubmit for allowing student loans that will never be paid.

Eff them all and to all: suck it up, suckers.


20 posted on 01/27/2022 6:18:44 PM PST by Da Coyote
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