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One can always take their edumacation and move overseas. No need to repay anything then.
One can always take their edumacation and move overseas. No need to repay anything then.
RWSGFY says
One can always take their edumacation and move overseas. No need to repay anything then.
Only if you don't plan on coming back and don't plan on getting social security. Your US credit will be ruined and the DoE will garnish your social security checks when you 'retire', specifically.
The goal isn't to forgive student debt, the goal is to prolong the dangling carrot con of student loan debt forgiveness for the entitled yute vote.
The guy who wants his tax dollars sent to Ukraine must be a Soviet citizen, LOL. Because it's Soviet money which are being spent to repel the Red Army. The question is: why the fuck he is not deported to his native open abortarium of a country.
What are we going to do with a military that big? What are purple-haired baristas with gender studies degrees gonna do in that military?

Susan
51 mins ago
I still have student loans, I looked at my statement recently, as I had put on automatic payments, but it only appeared to be for one of the loans, which I did pay off, but have others. When I looked at the federal website for my loans, it shows they are in deferment until 2033 and 2043. Just so you all know, I didn't ask for that, they just up and did it. If the world (or me) doesn't end this next year, I still hope to pay it off.
The nature of a student loan is it's based on
1. zero credit
2. zero collateral
3. zero assets of the student
There is no way that such a loan should be forgiven at taxpayers expense.
Also, banks should not get fucked over because they lent money to a loser.
Banks are a business with shareholders who don't deserve to get fucked by the losers.
The exception is medical and law which are highly protected by regulations so you gotta spend 2-4 extra years wasting your time before you can be of actual use. But anyways, those professions are on the way out.
Student loans are ridiculous. With the internet, anyone should be able to get a bachelor level education for less then 1K.
Medical and Law professions are on the way out?
's not worth the time or money to be a doctor anymore. They don't pay that well. Not joking either.
let me burst the bubble here:
this is how all loans work.
mortgages are exactly the same. by the time you pay off a 30 year mortgage, you've generally paid 2-3 times the price of the home.
as rates go up and as time extends, this multiple rises. at 13.5% (a generous rate for unsecured debt from someone with middling credit), over 20 years you'll wind up paying about 3X your total borrowing.
3 minutes with one of 100 available online loan calculators would have made this plain, and it’s not like these terms or the basic function of interest over time were hidden concepts.
there is no trickery here, just math. ...
if you want universities to become sound again and their prices and curricula to rationalize, the spigot of easy NINJA money needs to be turned off. federal lenders should provide nothing here. all they do is harm.
let the market return to balance. let demand by students attenuate, let supply of “college” drop, let college quality rise, let those who cannot hack it fail out, and let faculties once more come to teach critical thinking and assessment.
just leave colleges alone.
entirely alone.
no more accreditation, stricture, or oligopoly. no more free money, grants, tax free status, or endless federal support and subsidy. no more federal role in lending or special federal rules to lend to students.
taking federal loans and tax free goodyrooms and grants out of the university system would be like returning the wolves to yellowstone.
it’s the only way nature will begin to heal.
WookieMan says
's not worth the time or money to be a doctor anymore. They don't pay that well. Not joking either.
For example?
Just leave colleges alone.
entirely alone.
no more accreditation, stricture, or oligopoly. no more free money, grants, tax free status, or endless federal support and subsidy. no more federal role in lending or special federal rules to lend to students.
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I was working at Wells Fargo in I think 2006 when student loan debt was made non-dischargable as a gift to banks and their lobbyists. Even then I thought that it was unfair to make this one kind of debt especially onerous.
And this gift to the banks has had the desired effect of trapping millions of naive students with debt for life, debt that a lot of them can never realistically hope to repay.
My argument is that student loan debt should be treated like any other debt, as the Constitution has this:
One could argue that they meant uniform across states, but one could also argue that they meant uniform across all kinds of debt.
So I would support a Supreme Court decision which makes student debt once again like any other kind of debt.