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A revolt is growing as more people refuse to pay back student loans
Washington Post ^ | 03/31/2015 | By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel

Posted on 04/02/2015 10:13:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Dr. Thorne

I think most employers now check the credit records of applicants. If an applicant has a black mark relative to college loans, s/he will most likely not be employed. This credit check is also done by people renting out apts, lending $ for cars, etc., etc., etc.

Of course, what this group is trying to do is to have the debt removed, leaving no record of their not paying back the money they borrowed.

On the other hand, some of these ‘universities’ were never anything but diploma mills. They’d accept the least qualified students who’d never have been accepted at any respectable university, charge astronomical fees, and hand out a piece of paper that was worthless. IMHO, that entire ‘diploma mill’ industry arose because of federal student loan guarantees


61 posted on 04/02/2015 10:57:02 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: ryan71
What does the future look like for an economy built on credit debit when the credit system fails?

The federal government will most likely find out first given their ponzi scheme built on credit (that every president & Congress in my lifetime has perpetuated).

62 posted on 04/02/2015 10:57:40 AM PDT by gdani (No sacred cows)
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To: SeekAndFind

Next step in this “process” - banks will pressure the feds to pay them back with our money.

All of this so mega many progressive humanity departments in “higher education” can be paid mega times more than they are worth out in the real world.


63 posted on 04/02/2015 11:01:08 AM PDT by Let's Roll (Before it can get any better it has to stop getting worse - vote 4 most conservative available)
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To: EDINVA

I am firmly convinced that if the Democrats find themselves running behind in ‘16 they are going to propose loan forgiveness. It is going to happen.


64 posted on 04/02/2015 11:04:39 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: babygene

Coerced?

Really?

Please explain how someone can coerce you in to taking out a loan against your will?


65 posted on 04/02/2015 11:18:27 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Confiscate their tax refunds, it’s the old-fashioned way...


66 posted on 04/02/2015 11:20:02 AM PDT by W. (Democrats + their media stooges wanted the US out of Vietnam so the Communists would win!)
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To: WayneS

Yes. Otherwise, it is stealing.


67 posted on 04/02/2015 11:23:08 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Suze Orman recently quit her TV show. She’s already been going around with Elizabeth Warren at student financial Q&A and student loan forums, promoting both Warren and changes to the law to make student debt bankruptable.

I suspect Suze Orman is going for the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, in return for endorsing Warren.


68 posted on 04/02/2015 11:25:06 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: 5thGenTexan
That does not excuse them from the obligation to pay it back.
69 posted on 04/02/2015 11:25:54 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: Bushbacker1
Maybe it’s time to bring back debtors prison.

Ebenezer: But have they no refuge, no resource?

Spirit of Christmas Present: [quoting Scrooge] Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?

FMCDH(BITS)

70 posted on 04/02/2015 11:26:54 AM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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To: WayneS

Agreed, but I fear that our guarantee will be used as a means to buy votes with a promise of some type of forgiveness plan.


71 posted on 04/02/2015 11:41:44 AM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: WayneS

Couldn’t agree more. When I took out student loans, I fully expected to have to pay them back - and I did. Further, I expected that they would take the payments directly out of my wages if I didn’t comply.

Sometimes I think it is time to just let the world collapse, so that there is nothing for left those who ‘demand’ to ‘demand’. The world is upside down.


72 posted on 04/02/2015 11:44:50 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: 5thGenTexan

Well, sure. Obviously someone is going to try to perpetrate that fraud. I mean, after all, they ARE democrats.


73 posted on 04/02/2015 11:52:22 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: blackdog

I paid cash for my Bachelors Degree in Accounting. I went to a community college for 3 years and got every credit I could cheap then transferred to a Cal State University and spent 2 years there. I was married, had a kid, and worked nights so I could go to school during the day.
I have 0 sympathy for any of these stupid people that have hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans.


74 posted on 04/02/2015 11:53:37 AM PDT by sheana
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

When I left college I was given ten years to pay back my student loans. Mine were paid back in less than eight years.

I did without quite a few things to make those loan payments, so I have NO sympathy for the people who are refusing to pay back their loans now.


75 posted on 04/02/2015 11:55:57 AM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: American Constitutionalist
As long as they don’t use tax payer’s money to bail out those liberal hell hole universities and collages, I don’t give a rats behind if they all fold and go out of business, actually this is a good thing.

These loans were all given out by the Feds, so when they forgive them it'll be the taxpayers picking up the tab for them.

Early in Obama's term, the Feds took over the school loan business. They've been using these loans to keep millenials happy for the past several years, and now they plan to keep them happy (i.e. and keep them voting Dem) by forgiving all the loans.

76 posted on 04/02/2015 12:02:18 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: WayneS

“Please explain how someone can coerce you in to taking out a loan against your will?”

Lie to them to convince them that it’s a good deal for them. Miss lead them into thinking that with all the money they stand to make, the cost of the education is well worth the investment. Convince them that there are jobs waiting for them after they finish school.


77 posted on 04/02/2015 12:07:02 PM PDT by babygene
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To: WayneS

we ought to boycott paying income taxes
we would win if we worked together

But we are wussies; very comfortable in our living


78 posted on 04/02/2015 12:11:37 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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To: babygene

So then, the school lied to them. They should be suing the school.

They did not borrow the money from the school.

If I take out a loan to buy a new car and the car turns out to be a lemon, I still owe my bank the money for the car.

My grievance is with the car dealership/manufacturer.


79 posted on 04/02/2015 12:15:40 PM PDT by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: WayneS
If they borrowed the money, they are obligated to pay it back.

You will be surprised to find that there are freepers who will disagree with you.

80 posted on 04/02/2015 12:19:55 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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