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Why? Millions of us worked and saved and put ourselves through college. It mighta taken 5 1/2 years instead of 4 but I didn't have any student loans. Seems like a good trade off.
Education and living costs are MUCH HIGHER than they were when I was young. Wages have increased, but COL is through the roof. Full-time college semester at public university was about $400. 1 BR apt near campus was $300/mo. I made $4.25/hr working at Mervyn’s Dept Store. I didn’t earn much, but got by with help from my parents and relatively low costs.- Mid-1980s.
Millions of people manage to get through college by, wait for it.....working.
If you want it bad enough there are roommates, fast food jobs and part time work. Total BS someone can't get a degree if they want it. Lame people think they are ENTITLED to other people's money because they are lazy.
If you are that entitled and lazy a degree isn't going to help your work ethic at all.
Is that what YOU did? Or did the First Bank of Dad & Mom finance your Trump University edumacation?
What do those swindlers charge for a year of college now over there? 12k a year? That's a lot of overtime at Maccas! How about making college less outrageous? Nah you silver spooners and Cheeto swooners do NOT want that! The more regular folks that can afford college, the more people who get marketable skills, the less in demand YOU are, the more YOU will actually have to WORK and EARN your pay; no more being overpaid in your ivory towers, smugly judging others.
Affordable college is the last thing you people want!!
This country is not what our founding fathers had envisioned. We have become a bitter society with hatred against each other. This country was founded by immigrates and now we want to get rid of some of the best and the brightest who contribute to our society. It's just wrong and not the american way
This country is not what our founding fathers had envisioned. We have become a bitter society with hatred against each other. This country was founded by immigrates and now we want to get rid of some of the best and the brightest who contribute to our society. It's just wrong and not the american way
No, we just want to get rid of the bottom-feeding trash that comes for the social benefits and have no respect for our country or laws. We want to bring more of the "best and the brightest" by having merit-based immigration.
No, we just want to get rid of the bottom-feeding trash that comes for the social benefits and have no respect for our country or laws. We want to bring more of the "best and the brightest" by having merit-based immigration.
They are brilliant young people who lack the resources to pay for college without loans, people who would go on to be doctors, engineers, architects, etc. Someone who has a dream to be an attorney shouldn't be able to go to law school, because their parents can't write a check for $150k, just because some are irresponsible and have no plan to repay their debts? What a stupid thing to think.
And life happens. Life hardships happen. People default on credit cards, personal loans, mortgages, car loans, etc., because the find themselves in a situation where it's either eat or pay a certain debt, but old people just have this penchant for student loan debt (probably because it mostly deals with Millennials). By that logic, we should do away with credit cards and mortgages, because people are irresponsible with those, too.
But yeah, take away these programs for people like teachers (who already deserve to get paid WAY more than they do now) and watch what happens to the talent pool.
Yup. Just a handful of years ago when I was 17, the question wasn't, "What are you doing after high school?", it was, "Where are you going to college?" This was especially true if you came from an educated family, college was basically the only option.
Just more of the same ignorance and bitterness from older generations, I assume.
I'm not sure who you consider a member of the older generations, but I am 53, and I think this plan is total BS. Why in the world is it possible for someone to rack up thousands of dollars of credit card debt and then declare bankruptcy, but that escape route is unavailable to a person whose degree has not been the golden ticket to success that they were told all their life that it would be?
I don't want to hear one single more G-damn word from Trump about anyone not paying their debts. How many people has he royally screwed by not paying his?
I have believed all of my life that hatred is a sin, yet I am learning to hate this man with a passion that literally makes me nauseous. His hypocrisy is absolutely staggering.
Education and living costs are MUCH HIGHER than they were when I was young. Wages have increased, but COL is through the roof. Full-time college semester at public university was about $400. 1 BR apt near campus was $300/mo. I made $4.25/hr working at Mervyn’s Dept Store. I didn’t earn much, but got by with help from my parents and relatively low costs.- Mid-1980s.
and people live longer now, they are in school into their 30s sometime, marrying in their 30s, buying their house in their 30s, having kids in their 30s... instead of their 20s
what's wrong with having people work a bit before starting college if they are starting their "lives" slower than before? they work some and save in their early 20s, get work experience to go along with that degree they will be getting
by working first, they are more focused on direction they want to go in college as well
really, why do millennials think college is a limited resource? it's there for life, no reason to go attend one right out of high school if they don't want to make a plan on actually paying for it or finding the resources to do it
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