What are your thoughts on student loan forgivness?
I guess the thing is that if someone loans you money, you should pay it back. It's only fair, right? That's the purpose of a mortgage, for example.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
Not fair to those who chose majors that they knew would be good careers and then they paid off every penny by BBC working is it? Too many these days with iffy majors that are probably not going to result in a lot of steady jobs with good pay. Those people should have gone to Vo Tech or Trade schools instead.
dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@cherokeepatti Part of the problem was the predatory loaning for the for-profit tech/trade schools pushing job fields that were rarely even available here any more, promising them a job on completion which was outright fraudulent lying, and often marketing these "opportunities" to the unemployable as a government program to help them get off disabilities and welfare, implying they weren't loans at all.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@dancingtongue yeah they did that for those computer repair schools in the 80’s. Made them think there was high demand for that and would get $10,000 in debt…a lot of money to repay with few jobs in that field. I knew several who did that and never got a job with their degree. They kept advertising those schools on tv for over a decade