Posted on 12/09/2025 8:29:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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It’s called banks. Make sure they are threatened with bill collectors.
Let the universities and the so-called professors take on some of the financial burdens for their worthless degrees.
My ex-DIL, a rabid Trump hater, is going to go postal if this plan disappears. She was so happy that she only had to pay $200 a month thanks to Biden’s overreach. She’s seriously deranged over Trump & we no longer speak (her choice), partly due to politics. I’m a little sad that I won’t be able to witness it.
How did we ever get into the student loan business. That’s what banks are for.
Of all of Biden’s rotten tricks, his student-loan bailout was 2nd only to his open-border policy. This was a pure giveaway to a constituency that overwhelmingly supported him, i.e., highly educated underachievers.
use the universities endowments to help pay for thier scam
I want her MISERABLE.
“ SAVE, described by the Biden administration as the “most affordable repayment plan ever,””
I think the definition of “affordable” for democrat voters might be. ….. other taxpayers pay for my freebies.
That’s not how our country works.
The issue is only students who are strong enough to be underwritten with a commercial loan should go into debt for college.
Students with “worthless degrees” were worthless students.
Let them pay back their loans like everyone else must do. I always paid mine back, but never took out a college loan hoping I’d get rich upon graduation & then I could pay it back.
As you will recall, the Obama administration took over the student loan business.
You are one stupid sob
There is no such thing as a worthless degree. Once you begin working, no one cares about your major. I worked with software developers with history majors. My pastor has a history degree. I worked with a guy who had a Black History degree. He already had a developer job and needed an easy degree to get promoted. All the employer (university) cared about was....wait for it....the BS.
Thanks, obvious genius.
That’s a completely different question.
For the last couple of decades, many employers wanted to see a degree to show that someone could and would play the game with some level of stick-to-itness.
Too many degrees now don’t even show that, since the students are just widgets kept on the assembly line to bag student loans from Uncle Sam.
You’re right about that. But we’ve got loads of young adults barely doing anything for 6 years and not coming out particularly employable, just as they went in. Then they expect that “degree” to be their magic ticket.
No matter the major, you still have to take the core classes just like everyone else. It’s why so many kids do it at a community college. My son has an Accounting degree from a large university. He is an Electrician. He had no student loans.
Oddly, my “easy useless” degree was Accounting which I got for free through my employer. I never used it but I had a 3.5 GPA. My other undergrad (BIT) GPA was 2.02.
If we want to fix the student loan problem, make parents co-sign for them.
I’m not talking about such “useless” degrees. I’m talking about kids who show up in college ill-educated—and don’t acquire any significant skills while there.
Good for you and the kid maxxing out CC and not going into debt. That’s what I’d have 75% of our college students do at this point.
I paid for a 4 year degree for him. He hated college but he has to go back to get his Electrician ticket. That’s on him.
Parents are too quick to put kids into debt for college. If they had skin in the game, they would think twice about it. You can go to college for free. I worked with several people who did it. I could take classes for free while I was working for the university. Now that I think about, it also might be true as a retiree.
There is quite a bit of “country club” degrees where the kids go to party rather than study. The smart kids go to school for the internship. My cousin got a security clearance in college as a developer and is now making huge $$$ working as a remote government contractor.
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