Posted on 05/29/2019 11:03:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
Yep, she finally got rid of him.
Her new Fiance is a great guy and he works his butt off. His Parents were pretty well off but they made sure their five Sons worked for everything. Nothing was handed to them.
Of course he is from a fine Southern Family. LOL
It’s great that they really seem to love each other. She is happier than I have seen her in years. We look at it being the first truly Adult relationship of her Life. Let’s just say they are smitten with each other.
The Wedding should be a humdinger.
I went into the army with a GED. I got out 9 1/2 years later with a BS at 75-90% tuition assistance and lots of free CLEP tests. Picked up an A&P and Pilot’s license as well using my own money.
How does an uncollectable debt constitute an asset?
At some point the attempts to collect turn into a joke.
To have learned to stop being in the business of special government guaranteed loans that rise above the ordinary loan risk environment and against the nature of humanity as created will be freeing.
“Usury” was one of the evils that divine counsel advised against.
I don’t know what possessed America to go into this business. It wasn’t a “conservative” idea anyhow by most any definition. Why should school cost more than what a classload of students can reasonably raise while studying, after willing benefactors are counted in?
I have no school loan axe to grind, or does anyone I personally know. But the experience sure sounds like a schooling about folly.
Now that I’ve vented, I can even see the reason for the snark. Lefties are being schooled in what it would be like to have to live with the consequences of a lefty idea. It’s easy to relish the schadenfreude, but at some point school has to let out, with wiser lessons learned.
If you want to get training without paying for it, there are ways. Get into a trade. First of all,it’s not like going to college to hopefully find work for which you were trained, when such may not be available, or have even been available at the time you started college classes. Getting into a trade may mean serving an apprenticeship, but at least you are actually working at something which includes a paycheck; possibly a very good one at some point. Serving as an apprentice electrician is a good example of that. Going into the military may provide excellent training in certain areas & of course, it carries a paycheck of sorts. So, there are a couple of reasonable alternatives to college. Of course, there are some careers for which college is necessary & which may mean incurring some debts. You are taking a big chance in doing this & incurring those debts however.
If you want to get training without paying for it, there are ways. Get into a trade. First of all,it’s not like going to college to hopefully find work for which you were trained, when such may not be available, or have even been available at the time you started college classes. Getting into a trade may mean serving an apprenticeship, but at least you are actually working at something which includes a paycheck; possibly a very good one at some point. Serving as an apprentice electrician is a good example of that. Going into the military may provide excellent training in certain areas & of course, it carries a paycheck of sorts. So, there are a couple of reasonable alternatives to college. Of course, there are some careers for which college is necessary & which may mean incurring some debts. You are taking a big chance in doing this & incurring those debts however.
Does your beloved “Jubilee” expunge all debt, or only “uncollectable” debt?
At the minimum subject it to the same rules as bankruptcy. We could do more, like maximum loan durations and no government guarantees.
That said, I have no problem with hitting up the colleges to help pay off the debt, with the condition that the students who benefit forfeit their "studies" degrees, for the reason I gave in my last post.
The colleges have been taken over by Marxists...
... but lead to no marketable skills.
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Can you imagine if progressive colleges can get taxpayers to completely finance their healthy paychecks and Marxist indoctrination camps? The graduates will come out fully brainwashed and dependent on government benefits to supplement their low paying jobs. The Left’s future power will be assured.
Those are all good ideas.
Doesn’t sound to me like “jubilee”, though.
At the least it’s like the relative good feeling of ceasing to be hit on the head with a hammer. Is it utter bliss? Of course not. But any exit from foolishness is better than none. Perhaps something like Peace Corps or armed service could be an ameliorating factor, less exacting than bankruptcy.
That is not entirely true. I know kids with nursing degrees, finance, and accounting degrees, business degrees and the like who are sucking air because of loans.
the predatory nature of the colleges is a big issue.
the drama is around the fool degrees, there are few of those, is is mostly around the heavy burden on all of them
There are alternatives to getting degrees (or at least certified) in those fields that won't get you in debt for over a hundred thousand dollars. It comes down to making the right choices, but it also comes down to making sure our children are aware of those alternatives.
With those who are in this position, if we are going to implement a policy of debt using your method to make the colleges pay for their tuition, then they should forfeit their degrees. I agree with you that colleges shouldn't be trapping our children into huge loans with outrageous tuition, but I don't agree with the students getting something for nothing either.
most of them have not gotten something for nothing.
They have been trapped for the past 8 to 15 years under the debt.
forfitting degrees, sure why not? Take the degree away from a nurse or an engineer, and that will take away their governement licenses to practice, lose them their jobs and bankrupt them. Go right ahead.
My husband rented a not-very-renovated chicken coop while getting his doctorate in Physics. Rode his bike. Ate cheap crappy food. Valet-parked cars, among many other pitiful jobs. No loans. In his pre-PhD education it was the same. No help from anybody.
I worked in the college dish room, was a waitress, and typed term papers for guys on a junky old portable typewriter, with carbon paper. (It was the ‘60s.). I didn’t graduate, but worked for Fortune 100 companies, getting my foot in the door with excellent typing skills (one class of Personal Typing in high school). I worked hard, learned OJT and advanced to making excellent salaries - enough to provide a happy retrement. A college degree isn’t necessary for everyone.
Owing money to anyone scares both of us so we don’t do loans. Cash only, even for houses and cars. Can’t imagine having to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans. Terrifying.
"This is the beauty of my one-step student loan plan. It puts all this controversy aside. Pay your own student loan off. That’s it. End of discussion. Now get to work." Straight, to the point and definitive. Great article, thanks.
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