Am I terrible for not liking a flat student loan forgiveness program? I mean, I worked hard to pay off my loan quickly and would feel a bit cheated if I had just been lackadaisical about paying it I would have gotten several thousand dollars free from the government.Allegedly, Bernie Sanders is going to come out with a policy proposal to forgive all $1.6 trillion in accumulated student loan debt.
Am I terrible for not liking a flat student loan forgiveness program?
I won't benefit from reparations directly but I wouldn't begrudge African Americans for getting it. In fact I'd celebrate because an injustice would have been righted and more importantly for me, the economy would likely boom. Granted, student loans are not even remotely comparable to reparations in terms of social justice so this is a vacuous argument. Still, should something like this pass, all I can say is to find the charity in your heart and be happy for others even though it doesn't help you.*Am I terrible for not liking a flat student loan forgiveness program? I mean, I worked hard to pay off my loan quickly and would feel a bit cheated if I had just been lackadaisical about paying it I would have gotten several thousand dollars free from the government.
Plus, there are people who get majors that are literally useless and then complain about how they can't pay off loans. For example, the daughter of one of my mom's friends spent seven years at a very pricey small liberal arts college to 'find herself', and graduated with a BA in Womens Studies and a minor in Art Therapy. Small wonder she can't find a 'decent' job.
I'm all for changing the law so student loan debt can be dispelled in bankruptcy, government support for refinance plans, and an expansion of loan forgiveness if the person goes into public interest work; but I'm no fan of straight up loan forgiveness.
Am I terrible for not liking a flat student loan forgiveness program? I mean, I worked hard to pay off my loan quickly and would feel a bit cheated if I had just been lackadaisical about paying it I would have gotten several thousand dollars free from the government.
Plus, there are people who get majors that are literally useless and then complain about how they can't pay off loans. For example, the daughter of one of my mom's friends spent seven years at a very pricey small liberal arts college to 'find herself', and graduated with a BA in Womens Studies and a minor in Art Therapy. Small wonder she can't find a 'decent' job.
I'm all for changing the law so student loan debt can be dispelled in bankruptcy, government support for refinance plans, and an expansion of loan forgiveness if the person goes into public interest work; but I'm no fan of straight up loan forgiveness.
You need some sort of curricular reform so that such degrees are not on offer, as well as the cultural change that ideally would go with it. It's a bloody con.there are people who get majors that are literally useless and then complain about how they can't pay off loans. For example, the daughter of one of my mom's friends spent seven years at a very pricey small liberal arts college to 'find herself', and graduated with a BA in Womens Studies and a minor in Art Therapy. Small wonder she can't find a 'decent' job.
That is a pretty ridiculous statement. By 2007 McKinsey had over 10,000 employees on its way to 27,000 by 2018.I didn't say this, but I don't mind saying that anyone who works for that particular consulting firm is morally no different from Paul Manafort.
We can afford this. Same with health care.
That is a pretty ridiculous statement.
You're not terrible at all, its a pretty normal reaction. It's a variation of the "bootstraps" / social-Darwinism argument that so many people buy into.Am I terrible for not liking a flat student loan forgiveness program? I mean, I worked hard to pay off my loan quickly and would feel a bit cheated if I had just been lackadaisical about paying it I would have gotten several thousand dollars free from the government. Plus, there are people who get majors that are literally useless and then complain about how they can't pay off loans.
Depends on how you define "from" as @Lexicus often points out. Also, since the working poor are mostly exempt from income taxes... not really? But ultimately, sure... if you want to go there, yep, the plan is basically no change from what we already do, right? if you look at it that way, it's just a different version of what the government has always done.Wont forgiving that debt in effect constitute a subsidy from the working poor to the educated elite?
People who got cosmetic surgery (or any surgery FTM) for "tens if not hundreds of dollars" are the same people who "die for lack of medicines and treatment "Well, for healthcare I suppose you need the same cultural change… some people die for lack of medicines and treatment while others get cosmetic surgery for tens if not hundreds of dollars.
No, but any time a policy is created to benefit people there's always going to be someone who got screwed by the old system. Think of moving to some type of UHS, for example, people who'd been over paying premiums or got sick from cutting meds or didn't get regular health checkups and wound up with some preventable catastrophic condition are screwed but at least in the future others won't be screwed over.Am I terrible for not liking a flat student loan forgiveness program? I mean, I worked hard to pay off my loan quickly and would feel a bit cheated if I had just been lackadaisical about paying it I would have gotten several thousand dollars free from the government.
Plus, there are people who get majors that are literally useless and then complain about how they can't pay off loans. For example, the daughter of one of my mom's friends spent seven years at a very pricey small liberal arts college to 'find herself', and graduated with a BA in Womens Studies and a minor in Art Therapy. Small wonder she can't find a 'decent' job.
I'm all for changing the law so student loan debt can be dispelled in bankruptcy, government support for refinance plans, and an expansion of loan forgiveness if the person goes into public interest work; but I'm no fan of straight up loan forgiveness.
Nope, the poor already get some pretty decent aid and the "elites" didnt have to borrow in the first place. Its rewarding the middle class who pay taxes but generally get very little in return.Wont forgiving that debt in effect constitute a subsidy from the working poor to the educated elite?
Am I terrible for not liking a flat student loan forgiveness program?