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They did address that. They said normal payments resuming at the first of the year should offset this influx of cash. I don't know if they're right. I just thought it was worth sharing.

 

Vast right-wing conspiracy.
Benghazi, done to harm Clinton.

 

I think I agree mostly what you're saying. And debt forgiveness doesn't solve the systemic issue.

But here's the thing: If you want a job with extravagant things like paid vacation, paid sick leave, health insurance, the potential for retirement someday, good luck doing that without a college degree.

 

This scares me more than jihadis.

 

Cancel one aircraft carrier group and its all paid for with money leftover for veterans health care.

 

If we just unleashed the free market, it would be fine!

 

I consider this to be nothing more than an amusing "N = 1" anecdote ... Have played a few rounds of late with a "new" guy in my golf circles (he's really not new, he's just an on-again/off-again member whom I'd never met before). Nice guy, pretty low-key, like me he sips his beer in silence after the round whenever the rest of the gang drifts into politics. Turns out he owns a company that makes and sells ambulances and the like.

A week or so ago he and I were chuckling about our early-20s dumbassedness and he revealed he'd been shown the door at his college a mere four days after arriving there ... Apparently rush week was one HELL of a good time.

Anyway, a little later, he got kinda serious and said over the years he'd caught himself feeling kinda "lesser than" when around people who put so much stock in their having finished college. "But then I got to thinking, 'What color's your jet, mother-effer? 'Cause mine's blue and white!' And then I'd feel better."

 

I find it interesting that the voice protesting the student loan forgiveness the loudest on this thread is dependent upon tuition payments for their salary. Perhaps one senses the decades long upward tuition cost trajectory is coming to an end?