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No Debt Help for Students' Parents in Loan Crisis
MainStreet.com ^ | 8-23-13 | Michael P. Tremoglie

Posted on 08/23/2013 7:52:30 AM PDT by William Tell 2

NEW YORK (MainStreet)—The government is providing assistance for student debtors in creating default avoidance plans for them. But what about the parents who borrowed money through the PLUS program? What options have they?

Not many it seems.

(Excerpt) Read more at mainstreet.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: college; education; studentloans; tuition

1 posted on 08/23/2013 7:52:30 AM PDT by William Tell 2
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To: William Tell 2

Getting lots of hits?


2 posted on 08/23/2013 7:54:00 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: William Tell 2

I’m about 5 months from having all my debts except the mortgage paid off.

I plan to keep it that way.


3 posted on 08/23/2013 7:54:04 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: William Tell 2

Geeze, what parent in their right mind allows their children to incur such debt to begin with?
Of course they have to pay it back.


4 posted on 08/23/2013 7:55:15 AM PDT by stanne
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To: William Tell 2
Parents who pay for their own kids education are suckers. Just ask Obama who paid for his college education? He'll be glad to tell us.

On all these college tours Obama loves so much, that question should be asked every time he opens his pie hole. "Mr President, with yourself as a role model, please tell us how you did it?, How did you manage to pay for your Ivy league education?"

5 posted on 08/23/2013 8:11:26 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: humblegunner

I have no way of knowing. Does it matter? Why are you interested?


6 posted on 08/23/2013 8:17:48 AM PDT by William Tell 2
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To: William Tell 2

Cough coug...blog pimp.


7 posted on 08/23/2013 8:30:22 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Make today a great day. Insult a liberal.)
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To: William Tell 2

Oh, your blog has a hit counter.

http://www.thestreet.com/tsc/onlinekit/index.html

That’s why it’s excerpted here, to get hits.


8 posted on 08/23/2013 8:37:54 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: William Tell 2
those poor students....
9 posted on 08/23/2013 8:42:45 AM PDT by Drawn7979
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To: William Tell 2

There’s a term for parents who borrow money through the PLUS program. They are called “idiots.” We did that one semester. Worst run program I’ve ever dealt with. Hey, I’ve got an idea! Let’s let them run our health care system, too!


10 posted on 08/23/2013 8:53:23 AM PDT by henkster (The 0bama regime isn't a train wreck, it's a B 17 raid on the rail yard.)
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To: William Tell 2

oh come on... parents don’t know how much they are committing to when they take out college loans? don’t take out the loan if you don’t want to be strapped for years and years...


11 posted on 08/23/2013 9:21:53 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: humblegunner

It is not a blog and it is not mine.

But what is it to you anyway? Are you one of those freeloaders I was speaking to last week? Not only are you freeloaders too lazy to click on a link to read something - you freeloaders are arrogant.

You think you can make the rules for a forum that is not yours - pathetic.This is not your forum. You do not get to tell people what to do.

So stop trying to hog Robinson’s forum.

You want to tell people what to do - get your own. Stop being a freeloading liberal troll on FR.


12 posted on 08/23/2013 9:44:57 AM PDT by William Tell 2
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To: henkster

Unfortunately too many parents have been sold on the idea to get a good job get a good education.


13 posted on 08/23/2013 9:46:26 AM PDT by William Tell 2
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To: henkster

I do not think they are idiots. The colleges are making a bundle off of them though.


14 posted on 08/23/2013 9:47:29 AM PDT by William Tell 2
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To: William Tell 2

Please point out where I “told you what to do”.

I’m merely pointing out that you are pimping your bloggy-writing here in order to get hits.

And you don’t like it.


15 posted on 08/23/2013 10:03:39 AM PDT by humblegunner
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To: William Tell 2

Have you looked for a job lately, everyone wants a degree, I saw an advertisement for a receptionist position paying $10 an hour, business degree preferred. Our society has bought into the educational system.


16 posted on 08/23/2013 10:29:02 AM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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