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Yeah. I’d rather fricking not go from being able to pay my bills and MAYBE save 200 bucks a month to living paycheck to paycheck JUST TO PAY THE INTEREST on my loans thank you very much. I left college for mental health/financial/family reasons and I have 20k in loans that I’ll likely never be able to pay off. I work BERY hard to survive and I’d rather not drown right now.
So we all in agreement to band together and boycott voting in the midterms if they dont either A) Permamently set the interest rate to 0% or B) Forgive 50,000 or more? Cause that'll for sure get the Dems to do something as the demographic that mostly votes for them will just not show up for them.
Biden could wipe it all away with a stroke of a pen but will not. Good luck in 2022.
> Most of the people whining about this predicament seem to think blaming their choices on other people misleading them is a valid argument. Sorry, if you’re smart enough to get into college you should have been smart enough to understand you couldn’t afford it.
This isn't exactly a fair statement. These are often 18 year old kids that lived a life being told "Go to college, get an education, you'll be better off!" without any actual qualifiers applied to it. It's easy to look in hindsight and go "Should have known"... but when you're brought up being lied to, it's not that easy. People don't just "learn" this stuff without going through the hard lessons. Sustained conditioning throughout your life is hard to overcome.
> Not sure what to tell you. It sounds like your parents lied to you and you’ve still got remnants of those unrealistic expectations with regards to the challenges life hands all of us. Have you brought this up with them? Maybe they’ll bail you out? Mine pushed me out of the house and into the military at 17, because my grades weren’t good enough when I left HS to get into college on a scholarship. Life ain’t fair, and we’re all dealing with our issues. Start being a bit more realistic and stop blaming others for your own self-inflicted wounds would be my next piece of free advice.
I literally told you that I don't have student loans, so you can stop going full old man yelling at the clouds with me :)
It's called empathizing with others and the issues they face, as well as taking a nuanced look at why certain conditions exist. That's not the same as assessing "blame". Why so many people are obsessed with that word is beyond me, but simple thinking brings simple answers, I guess.
Some free advice for you - read the conversation you're having instead of grandstanding and thumping your chest at people.
Have a good evening.
The amount of people I've gotten into arguments with over student loans on here is insane. I love how everyone is like "you picked the wrong major/school" or "You knew what you were signing up for deal with it!" My parents paid for my college, I have no dog in this fight. I just don't understand how people are such buttholes about this. People are getting hurt by this and it seems like some people are happy to watch them drown.
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This guy has 50,000 in loans
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Could be worse. Not sure why this guy went to law school on the moon, but hopefully it was accredited, because lol this guy fricked himself
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Holy shit that's a lot even for law school. I've known a couple lawyers through the years and one told me that there are more law grads than jobs for lawyers and the job you get depends a lot on the school you went to. But that type of loan is crazy.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Most lawcels who aren’t in a specialized field/ or T-15 school won’t ever break 6 figures.
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If he took out loans for 4 years of undergrad at an expensive school, he may have accrued around 100k. Then another 100-150k for law school, i think this adds up actually
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Yeah, Harvard's gotta be $40k-ish, but if you're going there, surely you're smart enough to figure out financial aid or get some scholarships
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It’s 85,060. Google says it’s 55k but they are lying, that doesn’t include room board. https://gse.harvard.edu/financialaid/tuition
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If you go to the one of the top 4/5 universities in the world that every China-cel and their parents dream of getting into and you still can't make enough moolah every month to pay back your student debt, then you deserve it tbh.
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I guarantee he went to expensive 2nd/3rd tier private schools.
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These people post on r/politics so you know they took out the full amount in loans including living expenses for all four years for a useless degree and did the same in law school
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I went to ND and wife went to an Ivy for undergrad and Master's followed by med school. 250k for each of these, but I paid it off right away because I'm not r-slurred.
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Why stop there? I've paid off nearly a million in loans between myself and my wife. Was the government going to give me a fricking million bucks from other taxpayers? I'd fricking love that, but how the frick is that fair? These people that want loans dissolved could not be more entitled.
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TWO MORE WEEKS
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