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When I took $100,000 in student loans I didn't know it would affect my kids' lives. Forgiveness will let me save for their future.
Business insider ^ | 08/25/2022 | Kelly Burch

Posted on 08/25/2022 4:02:03 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27
What did she major in?

If it was electrical engineering or computer engineering I don't understand why she would have any trouble paying off her school loans. If it was one of many useless majors, she just wasted 4 years of her life and burned $100,000.

(I paid off my school loans. I paid for my kid's expensive private college and graduate school. When I wanted an MBA I attended my state university, rather than the Ivy to which I had been accepted, because it was much cheaper.)

21 posted on 08/25/2022 4:14:04 PM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At our expense.


22 posted on 08/25/2022 4:14:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So, they’re saying they made a lousy investment that didn’t pay off and want to ensure that their kids can do the same.


23 posted on 08/25/2022 4:15:49 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"When I took $100,000 in student loans I didn't know it would affect my kids' lives."

Are you stupid?

I figured this out in advance and refused to take a student loan.

My wife and I slept on naked springs, cooked on a hotplate, ate on a card table. We did not go into debt--or borrow money!

"Forgiveness will let me save for their future."

I saved for the future without stealing other people's money!

I'm far superior to you--intellectually and morally!

24 posted on 08/25/2022 4:15:55 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

$100K to get a degree in journalism, a famously low paying career field that offered little hope of paying off. Then instead of putting her nose to the grindstone, she became a free-lance journalist, an even worse paying option that most would consider more of a hobby. So the rest of us, including those of us who paid for our own and/or our children’s education will now pay for this woman’s hobby lifestyle. Straight redistribution of wealth from my pocket to hers.


25 posted on 08/25/2022 4:16:48 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

He’s spot on.

This is the story of the Three Little Pigs in reverse. The industrious pig who worked hard and built his house of bricks will have it taken from him, given to the two lazy pigs, and he will have to pay for their food.


26 posted on 08/25/2022 4:17:36 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: RetiredTexasVet

“I was illiterate and math was not my strong suite. I got a government handout to go to school and, because I was eligible for a handout, now I’m eligible for a double handout. It’s life changing!”


27 posted on 08/25/2022 4:17:46 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (21 years on Free Republic, 12/10/21! More than 5000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I graduated from an expensive private college

In the later 1960s when there was little financial aid available, I attended an expensive private college a year, but transferred to more affordable state universities to finish my degree.

It was rough, but I paid back EVERY loan within 5 years of graduating.

PAY YOUR DAMN BILLS, DEADBEAT!


28 posted on 08/25/2022 4:17:56 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Can’t wait till they realize $10,000 is not $100,000.


29 posted on 08/25/2022 4:19:08 PM PDT by Kadric
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So Kelly you think it’s OK to steal from me so you can save for your kids, right? You are a despicable piece of crap.


30 posted on 08/25/2022 4:19:12 PM PDT by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Blatant government propaganda.
BS BS BS!


31 posted on 08/25/2022 4:19:50 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Freee-dame

Yes! I have heard they get housing & foid dollas, too.


32 posted on 08/25/2022 4:20:53 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

EXACTLY——

IF you cannot pay the freight without ‘damaging your kids future”-—then DO NOT have the kids until your future is more financially secure.

It is NOT my responsibility to support you/your college education aspirations/your kids.

GROW UP....


33 posted on 08/25/2022 4:21:08 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Freee-dame
Can people get these loans for more money than needed for tuition and books etc.?

Yes.

34 posted on 08/25/2022 4:21:28 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Vendome

I like it.


35 posted on 08/25/2022 4:21:34 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Now you’re affecting MY kids, asswipe.


36 posted on 08/25/2022 4:22:39 PM PDT by moovova
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Wait until she calculates the payments on a home mortgage.....


37 posted on 08/25/2022 4:23:20 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: TomGuy

DEADBEATS is how everyone should refer to them.


38 posted on 08/25/2022 4:23:28 PM PDT by goodnesswins (The Chinese are teaching calculus to their 3rd graders while ours are trying to pick a pronoun.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

No wonder some people got themselves into such deep debt. They must have thought it was free money.

Additionally, if a person has $100,000 college loan debt and has $10,000 removed ( paid for by others) she still has $90,000 owed. I don’t see the euphoria for her.


39 posted on 08/25/2022 4:25:43 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"Forgiveness" is for a highly conditional 10K. If he's ten times that in the hole, he's still screwed.

Or is he angling for more "forgiveness".

For his children? Let them learn to code.

40 posted on 08/25/2022 4:27:27 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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