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Kayaker tied large rock to ankles to drown herself, officials say (student loan death)
New York Post ^
| August 21, 2018 | 7:03pm
| Katherine Lam, Fox News
Posted on 08/28/2018 3:40:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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I believe that encouraging 18-year olds to bury themselves in student loan debt for a degree that won't even get them a job should be a capital offense.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Whittens mother, Tabatha, told Newsweek hours before the body was found that her daughter was depressed. Whitten had recently graduated college, broken up with her boyfriend and was dealing with debt.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:40:57 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Does anyone ever pay off their student loans?
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:42:45 PM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: bgill
Student loans are the ONLY kind of debt you cannot escape through bankruptcy.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:44:12 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" height=200> zXSEP5Z, xnKL3lW, RZ9yuyQ. XywCCJd, zQ9Ghyq.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I totally agree! Not everyone is cut out for college and not everyone wants to go to college. Piling on a huge debt and then having to pay it off before you can start a life is crazy!
Just me, but at 18 I got married and became a stay-at home wife and mom. That’s what I wanted to do and I’m a lot happier than if I’d gotten my PhD in SJW and had to work at Wal Mart to pay off a loan.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:46:37 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Why the focus on student loans?
Maybe she was more upset about the boyfriend?
We may never know for sure why she decided life wasn’t worth living.
I can’t see the connection to student loans being such an overriding factor .
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I wish someone had given me that advice.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:49:21 PM PDT
by
ducttape45
("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I'd propose forcing the colleges to provide classes teaching employable skills, at their own expense, to the students in return for the tuition they received.
It's a fair policy all around. The students get employable job skills that would help them find jobs to pay their loans back, the colleges provide the education they were paid to provide, and no tax payer funded bailouts.
All of this is on the condition that the students receiving the training forfeit their degrees in "homosexuality in the bee kingdom" studies. To hold on to their studies degrees is to admit they got something of value for their tuition, in which case they would be owed nothing.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:49:54 PM PDT
by
TwelveOfTwenty
(Prayers for our country and President Trump)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I agree!
These student loan debt people are worse than the housing market bundlers! Eventually, the property will be worth SOMETHING, and in time, it may be worth MORE than the amount for which it was sold.
However, a General Studies Degree or a Liberal Arts Degree will NEVER be worth as much as was spent getting the worthless paper! Especially if you include the interest paid!!
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:50:09 PM PDT
by
ExTxMarine
(Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Student loans are the ONLY kind of debt you cannot escape through bankruptcy. Not quite. Debt obtained through fraud, debts for willful injury or wrongful death, and debts where the borrower was acting in a fiduciary capacity cannot be discharged through bankruptcy. Also alimony and tax liens.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Should have gone to a trade school. College is pretty much a waste unless you’re in a STEM program. Or ROTC.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:51:04 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
To: bgill
I did. Every last penny. Plus interest.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:54:45 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: bgill
Does anyone ever pay off their student loans? Yes. My son and his wife had considerable student loan debt when they graduated six years ago. Not huge, but as it was over $60,000, it was still significant. They paid it all off two years ago, and replaced the student loan payments with a home mortgage. They are doing fairly well.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:55:33 PM PDT
by
henkster
(Monsters from the Id.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
If her parents are in any way liable for the debt, make em pay!
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:55:35 PM PDT
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: TwelveOfTwenty
The bees are pretty much all lesbians.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:55:44 PM PDT
by
Rio
(I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
To: Sirius Lee
To take that a bit further, there should be no student loans for liberal arts majors.
Period.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:55:48 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Damned thing is, I live here in Valley/Lanett. I work ten minutes from Heard Park in West Point. I haven't heard a word about it, and everybody knows everybody else's business around here. Five will get you ten that Kayak came from Walmart over on 29. They had a rack of them up in front of the store, including teal ones. And it's West Point Lake, you Fox News snapperhead.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:57:06 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
("For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." Hosea 7:8)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Like millions of others, she was sold a bill of goods with the idea that she would get a high paying job right out of college and make 3 times what her father was making and thus took on a lifetime’s burden of debt.
It would be interesting to know what her degree was. Was it even marketable?
This is quite sad.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:57:30 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
To: TwelveOfTwenty
I propose allowing the student to discharge the debt in bankruptcy, and then having the college that issued the worthless degree have to reimburse the government for the amount of debt discharged.
You will see a lot fewer schools offering degrees in “Critical Environmental Policy Studies.”
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:58:31 PM PDT
by
henkster
(Monsters from the Id.)
To: ExTxMarine
Spent 5 years in college, graduated with a BS Physics & business, worked summers and Christmas vacations, and in the kitchens of the girls dorm for .65$/ hour(would have worked there for free!). Frat rat too. graduated with no debt.
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posted on
08/28/2018 3:58:59 PM PDT
by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
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