Al-Jazeera USA asks the Taker Class: What else should the President take away from hard-working productive people and give to you in exchange for votes? (Although they don’t quite phrase it like that.)
(For those of you in Rio Linda, FSA stands for “Free Sh-t Army,” i.e. the people who vote for Democrats based on the promise of more Free Sh-t from the Government.)
Nick adds: Perhaps we should be submitting some of our own? Follow me (@GPColoradoPatriot) and see I’ve added a couple already under #DearPOTUS
Dad: “Son, go to State the scholarship will cover everything and you won’t need a student loan you can’t afford.”
Son: “You only have a GED, I’ve got a diploma and accepted into a University that lowered it’s standards to get more minorities.”
Dad: “Fine, be that way, just don’t come crying to me when you can’t make the payments”
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Son:”Dad, I can’t make these payments”
Dad: “Told you so, now get out.”
I’m going to a state university that has a lower tuition than my high school. Granted, my high school was a parochial school, but still. Unless you are going into a STEM field, higher education is little more than an elaborate scheme to swindle you out of your (parents’) money to line the pockets of corrupt tenured professors who don’t care about your future, in exchange for a diploma that may as well be a lifetime supplies of blunts, for all the good it’s going to do your success in the job market.
Me in the 1980’s : Went to night school while working full-time for 7 years getting bachelor degrees in Accounting and Computer Information Systems. Walked away with $2,500 in debt. Have been gainfully employed ever since.
Nephew in the 2010’s : Worked very hard in high school. Earned an academic scholarship at a private New England college. Graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Walked away with $40,000 in debt. His employer paid half of his debt as a signing bonus. He was able to pay off the rest in 3 years.
Spending $180,000+ to get a degree in a field that shows no promise of a higher than average income is a fool’s game. These fools can’t even connect the dots that more federal money in the way of guaranteed loans only cause tuition to rise. As this fool is suggesting, a federal program to tie payments to wages will only increase tuition.
As this fool is suggesting, a federal program to tie payments to wages will only increase tuition.
As long as they don’t have to pay for it, they don’t care.
Dear President,
I want stuff I can’t afford. It is unethical to expect me to pay for the stuff I already bought. Despite the fact that I didn’t learn enough in school to even know what the limited powers of the US president are, I think you should pass a law/sign an edict/wave a magic wand and make my debt go away.
The poor dear. We should forgive his debt, let him live on welfare, food stamps, free housing, and health care until he dies. He should be able to play the lottery, toke lots of weed, and drink beer until he passes out.
#Dear POTUS,
Still waiting for that unicorn. Hope you didn’t forget. Love – Michael.
A liberal friend of mine was complaining that the “damn” credit card companies raised his minimum payments. I had to point out to him that the “damn” credit card companies are following the “damn” law that “damn” Pelosi/Reid/Obama passed. I just don’t get liberals. He still loves Obama.
I love the guy’s line, “It is unethical to expect a recent college graduate to pay $847 a month regardless of income level or employment status.”
How about, “It is unethical for a college student to borrow money with no regard to his future job prospects”?
Or “It is unethical for a college to bring in a student under borrowed money, for a worthless degree”?
Those don’t appear to have crossed his mind yet…
Ask not what your country can do for you… oh, never mind.
ILC, he has been trained to think his professors are brilliant holders of ancient lore, and any who would dare speak against them are the followers of ignorance who wish to snuff out the fire of the professors’ Secret Wisdom.
With each passing day, academia looks more and more like Manichaeism.
The student depicted certainly has a sense of entitlement. It was rather shocking to me to see that he thinks his repayment of loans, that he freely took on, is unethical. I question why he did not think of the payments he would eventually have to make when he took on the loans in the first place. However, in my experience, while students will complain about their loans, the majority of students I have encountered do not have this man’s sense of entitlement. They know they will have to honor their loan payments, and they intend to do that very thing.
Additionally, as I work in the higher education field I feel I should defend it to an extent. While there is indeed a liberal bias in many places of higher education, the field itself is not as radical as its most vocal members. Unfortunately, many students will tend to latch on to some of the radical ideas as they try to navigate their way through the developmental process of higher education. That is why I will question the thought process of students, and consistently ask them to evaluate their own beliefs. Yes, I do believe there are others in the field that enable students in their entitlement, and convince students that there is one right way of thinking. Yet there are many professionals that push students to examine their lives in ways the student never thought imaginable.
College makes people liberal, but it also makes people conservative. I personally went into college as a socialist, but through my experiences I found how quickly my beliefs crumbled when confronted with logic and reality. I was exposed to knowledge that I never knew existed, and through that process I recognized the limits of my own knowledge. It allowed me to really think for myself, and form a solid basis for my current leanings. There are students who do not take that process seriously, but there are also students who really take the opportunity to learn, and through that process start to think for themselves.
Maine liberals are studying this stupid plan… No upfront costs to go to the state university system. No loans. After you leave the university, you pay back the “non-loan” loan at a rate of “up to” 3% of your income. In Maine, the average person who attends and graduates from the university of Maine walks away with $27,000 in debt. The median household income is : $47,000. Doing the math (without an interest factor), that student would be paying $1400 per year for 20 years! No plan if the student leaves Maine, makes less than the median household income or a funding mechanism (except of course, a bond issue that has an interest factor).