Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

Who elected this blood sucking l***h anyway?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/a-democratic-lawmaker-with-over-200-000-in-student-debt-says-millions-of-borrowers-will-soon-have-to-postpone-their-lives-with-payments-about-to-resume/ar-AA1fb03x?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=bba1e72171fc4105bc0012f25d462f3e&ei=23

Bevvy

she just wants a free ride

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

It's society's problem..
Having a significant portion of the population in debt is not a good thing..

Want debt relief??
Abolish income tax

Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

BINGO !!!! and now in an elected position where she will never have to work and can control her payola!

steve66613

That would solve a multitude of problems!! The first being unbridled government!

steve66613

Ms. Lee’s opulent lifestyle is her biggest hindrance…for everything.

ksaves

When I went to college in 1974, the vast majority of my classmates took out loans to pay the tuition. It was a private college too. I was lucky as my parents gave me no choice, "We don't care what you do but you're going to college and we'll pay for it." Pay they did as I went on to med school after graduation. Paid for that too. I know, I'm lucky but they were proud of me. Had a long medical career.

Most of my classmates went on to professional, law school, graduate or teaching professions. All of them paid off their student debt as they had good marketable positions. The ridiculously low interest rate of the time meant that some of them took their time to pay off the loans but they did pay them off.

Get a "basket weaving" major in college and no one is going to employ that type of graduate. It's best for a teenager to take a personal inventory of what they like to do and look at the marketplace to see what job/profession to shoot for in college then study their "arse" off.

And by golly the trades are a good thing too for one who wants to work with their hands. Humankind will always need plumbers, carpenters, electricians, mechanics, etc. These folks and more take care of the "professionals".

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

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archie bunker Loc: Texas

Why is someone who CHOSE to go into debt MY problem? Am I to be held responsible for financial choices that people I don't even know have made?

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Does the economy affect you???

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

I’d rather see colleges cut pay for professors and lower costs.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

That isn't going to happen

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Yeah, but I pay for the loans I have signed up for.
How bout I get forgiveness for my vehicle payment. I need that vehicle to get to work.

ksaves

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Huhhh? What kind of liberalistic bull crap is this? Teachers, B.S., M.S. and Phd is low enough as it is.

Yeah if a Phd has an idea, they might be able to go outside of a university system to make money off a patent but most likely their idea would be tied by contract to the university they work for. It's the upper level prof's who get compensated better and by gosh they should be! If students h**e the hell out of them, don't want to take their classes, an institution would likely fire or retire them. The tenure thing might enter in here but if a prof is so h**ed (by the grapevine) and nobody wants to take their classes, they'll fail.

Plus there is the "publish or perish" issue on research stuff that likely didn't apply to the humanities that was in place in the late 70's when I was in school and might still be valid today. I have to let an "involved" academic comment on this though.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Wouldn't abolishing the income tax help do that for you???