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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

On Wednesday, I pulled up my go-to news site for some midday procrastination. When I saw the headline about President Joe Biden announcing student-debt cancellation, I immediately texted my sister. After a flurry of messages about what we knew, she summed up what we were both feeling: This is literally life-changing.

It wasn't an exaggeration. I graduated from an expensive private college 12 years ago, and I still pay hundreds of dollars each month in student loans. My sister learned a bit from my mistakes. She graduated from a community college last year with a career-focused associate's degree in healthcare. But she still had plenty of student loans. When we talked about it, I could see the anxiety I'd felt for more than a decade reflected on her face.

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Stupid POS. I hate people.
1 posted on 08/25/2022 4:02:03 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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They need to close all schools that have student loans forgiven. Just like they did the private for profits schools under Obama. These are scam degrees if people can’t get jobs to pay them off, so close them down!


2 posted on 08/25/2022 4:03:13 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Bad planning on your part does not constitute a crisis on my part.


3 posted on 08/25/2022 4:05:17 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I hate people too....

I hate them because I and my husband have done everything the legal, moral, ethical way, the way our parents taught us....

try to avoid debt but pay it off if you do have it...

give your employer your best efforts and work hard...

pay your taxes on time and donate to charity....

we're all such stinking fools.....

we should have risked our money on outlandish schemes and vacations homes because even if we couldn't pay for them, we could claim bankruptcy and nobody would care...

4 posted on 08/25/2022 4:05:20 PM PDT by cherry
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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.

Another DUMB A$$ $HITHOOK heard from.

5 posted on 08/25/2022 4:05:34 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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Oh boo hoo. I had no idea of the consequences of borrowing $100,000. Everybody's a victim, even those taking multiple loans up $100,000 over multiple years. Yeah, no idea what that meant or that I would actually, you know, have to be responsible and pay it back.

The stupidity, it burns. The idea that these people are deceptive enough to even suggest they were a victim is almost unbearable.

6 posted on 08/25/2022 4:06:00 PM PDT by Obadiah (Finishing is better than starting.)
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7 posted on 08/25/2022 4:07:38 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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As Kudlow put it: today’s colleges and universities are hedge funds with a school room attached.


8 posted on 08/25/2022 4:08:08 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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9 posted on 08/25/2022 4:08:34 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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10 posted on 08/25/2022 4:09:30 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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If I were her, I’d just shut up.


11 posted on 08/25/2022 4:09:44 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: cherry

I’ve been saying much the same for years now. Why struggle your whole life to do what’s right when in the end those who didn’t wind up in the same place as you?


12 posted on 08/25/2022 4:09:51 PM PDT by Rowdyone (Vigilence)
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How does someone who graduates from Community College have burdensome student loans? Can people get these loans for more money than needed for tuition and books etc.?


13 posted on 08/25/2022 4:10:21 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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“I graduated from an expensive private college 12 years ago.”

Who is the moron in this story? You borrowed and spent the $100k on yourself. And now you want me to pay for your ill-advised, immature, and selfish mistake? No. But SloJoe comes along and reward you for your pathetic behavior and decision making. Typical of Democrat - rescue people from their self-inflicted idiocy. Disgusting.


14 posted on 08/25/2022 4:10:53 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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Forgiveness = such a manipulative way to describe other people paying for your debts while they're being discriminated against and not receiving anything.
15 posted on 08/25/2022 4:11:17 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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Idiot.

No planning horizon.


16 posted on 08/25/2022 4:11:39 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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Ok karren.


17 posted on 08/25/2022 4:12:01 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up!)
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“....saw that the $18,000 loan would cost me nearly $60,000 over its lifetime...”

But she did admit that her family was just as dumb as she was .... possibly genetic.


18 posted on 08/25/2022 4:12:58 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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I’ve been saying much the same for years now. Why struggle your whole life to do what’s right when in the end those who didn’t wind up in the same place as you?

Self respect.

19 posted on 08/25/2022 4:13:28 PM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
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Release the names of the forgivees, and allow access to that database by plumbers, electricians,other tradesmen, cops, firemen, paramedics, etc.


20 posted on 08/25/2022 4:13:40 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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