>>A decade-plus later, I, like many millennials, have more than $100,000 in student loan debt<<
That kind of answers itself — 10+ years in college? Get a job!
Oh, and any student debt forgiveness had better be retroactive to the mid-1970s.
I can’t afford college and it’s all (white people/racism/greedy bankers/sexism/homophobia/George Bush’s) fault.
America is such a terrible backwards place and I hate it.
etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.............
Yes, and, like the majority of Americans for the last 40 years, your parents listened to the wrong people(nanny state, utopian democrats). There is no tooth fairy, or money tree. We have hit the wall.
I have two kids in school, spending 1400-1600/ month on each with tuition management; no aid, no loans, no govt welfare. It comes out on the 10th of every month; actually a pretty good deal if you are the type of person that likes to not depend on the govt. Of course, we drive old vehicles, my favorite being a 1990 ford truck, live within our means, and not upset with college costs. People need to take a look at themselves.
She was LIED to! By her parents! Can you believe that she would castigate her parents in such a manner to make a point? It underlines the underlying aspect to this ‘letter’. She is just another Sandra Fluke...twisting and turning words to emphasize the ‘emotional’ and influence the politics of ‘gimme, gimme, gimme’.
One possible explanation: Her SAT marks must have been horrible. I notice she didn't mention them
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Sneer all you want. Our economy is stilted by students suffocating underneath such huge loans which cannot be discharged even in bankruptcy court! We have Dumbo Dubya & the GOP Congress to thank for that bit of legislation in 05. Not to sound like a broken record but some of us on FR warned about that ill advised “gift” to the loan industry but were shouted down then. The chickens have come home to roost.
On the other side of the coin, taxpayers shouldn’t be completely on the hook for the student’s admitted stupidity. Loan “forgiveness” shouldn’t be painless. Bankruptcy must be initiated to get out of the loans.
Sometimes life isn’t fair and your family doesn’t have extra money to send a kid to college.
I was in that situation when I was 17-yrs old. So I enlisted in the U.S. Army, and when I got out I used the G.I. Bill and my accumulated savings to pay for a university education. I also had two part-time jobs, working as a swing-shift custodian during the week, and at a car wash on weekends. It was hard work, but it can be done.
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is / To have a thankless child!—The Bard
Why would I give a flying flop about her? I put my self through college by working and doing a military tour to get the GI bill because my father couldn’t afford to help. My sons couldn’t get scholarships because they weren’t a minority and they were male (their counselors told them that)and what college credits they’ve earned they have done mostly on their own. Again, I don’t give a flying flop about your petty personal problems or delusions about who owes you what; the rest of us owe you NOTHING!
The line that really removed any consideration for the whiney bitch was referring to herself as a US born latina. She makes it clear that she considers herself hispanic first and American second, if at all.
Piss on her, her parents and any spawn.
“At 17, I never could have dreamed that my parents’ promises were lies. “
good to know you consider your parents liars...my dad offered to do what he could to help pay my college but also said i was going to have to take out loans- which i did and paid back in full....
If you make even 20 grand a year, you can still pay off a student loan. You might have to move back home for a couple of years and it might be the only pleasure you have in life, but it can be done.
Give me a break.
I wonder if she would have had the same debt load if she had gone to a state university.
Miss Horton should be getting a call from Obama in 5..4..3.....
Never said what her degrees or military commission were.
Do they still have programs where you can work off your debt? For example, there have been programs for teachers, who go into underserved inner-city or rural schools, and can get loan forgiveness for their work there.
Too many kids nowadays go to college, with no thought of how their degrees will translate into jobs afterwards.
What will a degree in Women’s Studies do for you in job market? Studying women may be fascinating, but how many employers look for women studiers?
Or, Black studies, or even “Gay” studies at some colleges nowadays. How many businesses are looking for philosophers, who majored in philosophy? Maybe it’s fascinating to derive a philosophy of life and all that, but it won’t get you a job.
Too many kids have the idea that just going to college itself prepares them for the future and future careers, regardless of what they major in.
All you taxpayers need to chip in and pay for my bad decisions! I’m a Latina! I’m a lawyer!
All you taxpayers need to chip in and pay for my bad decisions! I’m a Latina! I’m a lawyer!
I guess that, at 17, neither her nor her parents heard of a community college....just sayin’....