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These Americans fled the country to escape their giant student debt
CNBC ^ | 10/27/18 | Annie Nova

Posted on 10/27/2018 4:44:26 PM PDT by Simon Green

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To: genghis
How can anyone think gov paying for deadbeats to go to college is a good idea?

As long as they vote for politicians who encouraged them to become "educated" and are now promising to forgive their debt, it's all good. BTW, the reason his wife married him is because SHE wants to immigrate to the West, and hopes that having an American husband and half-American children will give her an edge.

Elephants might be interesting the first dozen times you see them, but they can't take the place of an American emergency room when you have appendicitis at 3:00 AM.

121 posted on 10/28/2018 6:57:29 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: marktwain

Universities are seats of higher learning, not vocational schools. People can attend in order to enrich themselves in addition to learning something that enables them to find a well paying job. The point I am trying to make is that the student is fully responsible for doing coursework appropriately for a career, not the university.


122 posted on 10/28/2018 6:58:16 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: jyo19

Maybe there were children who wouldn’t listen to advice. I wish all of my life’s problems had come to me when I was 18 and knew everything.


123 posted on 10/28/2018 7:00:10 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: 17th Miss Regt

but he said his difficultly finding a college-level job in the U.S. has made that debt oppressive nonetheless

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this is the money-quote.

a college level job. What the heck is that?

You work and you make your way.

Your character determines the jobs you obtain.


124 posted on 10/28/2018 7:24:05 AM PDT by Chickensoup ( Leftists fascists today plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives soon)
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To: wetgundog

$200/semester at UMass, 1965. Ahhh.


125 posted on 10/28/2018 7:32:24 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: GingisK
the student is fully responsible for doing coursework appropriately for a career, not the university.

You are correct.

But many people have been caught in the trap of believing a university degree is a guarantee of a high paying job.

126 posted on 10/28/2018 7:46:06 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
...but they can't take the place of an American emergency room when you have appendicitis at 3:00 AM....

Uh huh, but the solution is a bit more terminal. Squish, squish.

127 posted on 10/28/2018 8:53:14 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: thoughtomator

Schools lie to the students? No — students lie to themselves. They want to get out of the house for sex, drugs and rock and roll. They want their own apartment, big screen tv, cell phone, etc. and they look for the easiest major. Too bad, so sad.


128 posted on 10/28/2018 3:28:45 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Simon Green
a master's degree in comparative literature

Hardly very practical, and viable for employment = wasted money unless it actually helped him be productive for good.

he brought home just $1,700 a month. He had little money left over after he paid his student loan bill. He couldn't afford an apartment in the city, where rents have been rising sharply. He lived with his mother and rarely went out with friends.

So if not paying rent, which he should, he had 1,400 left after paying his student loan. Yet he says,

"Some toilets here are holes in the ground you squat over," "I have a higher standard of living in a Third World country than I would in America, because of my student loans."

He could get a studio in plenty of cities for 800 or less a month (security depo may be an issue), spend 100 a month on food (learn to cook), and 100 more for transportation and other things (9.99 jeans at Walmart, 14.99 sneakers, etc. ), and still have 400 left over after making his student loan payment.

And if he got a job for the government, or a secular non-profit, and make all he payments for 10 years (120), then all the rest of his loan would be forgiven. and

129 posted on 10/29/2018 7:54:34 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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