I paid off every dime of my student loans. Took me 8 years and going to school every other year, but it got done.
Why should I have to pay because other people were fiscally irresponsible?
“I paid off every dime of my student loans. Took me 8 years and going to school every other year, but it got done.
Why should I have to pay because other people were fiscally irresponsible?”
In a true, non socialist Republic, you shouldn’t. I agree.
But we don’t. We live in an increasingly socialistic/communistic country. The reality is that with the current monetary system we have, the national debt IS “us having to pay because other people were fiscally irresponsible.” The way this system is set up, it allows a welfare state that ALL of us pay for. And the irresponsible aren’t just the welfare queens. No, the greatest irresponsibility is those who have set economic policy, the politicians, and the idiots called the FED.
I remember Freepers encouraging college students to “leverage” themselves with college debt, because they will have the better pay to pay it back. Right here on good ol’Free Republic. I don’t remember the handle of those doing so, but I still wonder and hope the Freepers asking the questions didn’t listen.
We need a reset, a default. Then our politicians, and those who don’t want to be productive, will have to figure out the hard facts of life, finally. Until then, yes, we do, and have been, paying for other people’s irresponsibility, for many years now.