Re: Protesters to shut down all ports from California to Alaska today.
Author: Juppo
Date: 12-14-2011 - 13:45
Seriously? Wrote:
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> > Who exactly held a gun to your head to take out
> > those student loans anyway? Did you use them
> for
> > school, or did you, like so many others, buy
> booze
> > and party?
>
> I believe all existing student loan debt should be
> forgiven and there's two reasons for this. One,
> prior to 2008 there was a promise that if you went
> to college, got good grades, got your degree, if
> you were willing to relocate for a job something
> would be out there waiting for you and in a
> reasonable amount of time you'd be earning enough
> to pay back your loans. That was a promise. But
> the promise was a lie told by those who destroyed
> our economy. If someone could go back in time and
> tell everyone that "Hey! Just so you all know, in
> 2008 Wall Street guys will cause a great recession
> (history will probably record it as a genuine
> depression) and there won't be any new jobs for 15
> years. Knowing this, if you still want to borrow
> $50,000 for school be our guest but don't expect
> any help when you can't pay your loans back." But
> of course we didn't get that message ten years
> ago. Like I said, the promise was a lie.
>
> Dude, if you were able to pay back your loans then
> good for you. Most of us are stuck with $35,000 to
> $65,000+ in student loan debt and have been
> unemployed for two years even after sending out
> 500 resumes and reading a few dozen books that
> gives advise. So don't @#$%& too loudly, you have
> it good.
>
> Secondly, those who caused this train wreck were
> bailed out and they're all off being rich right
> now - buying $2.5M Superman comics. They weren't
> punished. They didn't learn anything - and the
> door is wide open for them to do it again I mean
> why not? There was no down side. If we forgive all
> outstanding student loan debt they will learn
> something and it will hurt.
>
> So there it is - a two-fer.
No. Clearly, pot smoking hippies and students who were apparently forced to take loans at gun-point to buy booze are at fault for the financial ruin of this country and a highly unstable future clouded by an unregulated China and an unruly Russia. Geez, haven't you been paying any attention? U shood wach Faux News like a good little fascist piggy.