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Education should teach the youth of today to honour any agreement they voluntarily entered into. Not unlearn it.

I have just visited my cousin and her daughter who is a student is excited because in America all the student debt has been hand waved away.

This is a very alarming president and I tried to tell Anne that this sets a bad example to the young who are just entering the work place. Being absolved of important formal agreements does not foster an environment where diligence, back bone and general good work ethic are fostered.

She then started spewing a tirade of reactionary progressive clap trap that she can only have picked up at university. This was startling because she is only studying Art History so I thought she would be insulated from this kind of indoctrination.

What is strange is that she gets so emotive about this but despite herself having just finished her 1st year,she hasn't herself received any external financial assistance so this issue doesn't affect her at all.

This is another issue that is very concerning with modern education; it is almost cult like how they make the young care about things that have no effect on them and often these things in question were unknown to them before they were removed from their parents vigilance.

She then saw that she had made me quite upset and so tried to offer apologies but I decided to leave. On my ride home she sent me forlornly reticent texts but when I saw that she uses pictures and abbreviations, I decided it would not be worth my time engaging with her.
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Elessar · 26-30, M

Maybe you old f*cks living life in [i]easy mode[/i] should shut up once in a while?
MsBellows · 61-69, F
@Elessar Maybe those who have yet to acquire experience should learn to be silent if all they can offer is the politics of bitter envy.
Elessar · 26-30, M
@MsBellows or maybe those who were handed out everything in life for cheap should mind their goddamn business and f*ck off
MsBellows · 61-69, F
@Elessar But first one must determine who was the source of this loan? Oh that's right. It was the tax payer. Which is me in this case.

Therefore maybe seeing how it's a virtual axiom of certitude that I will have paid more in taxes than you have (I'm basing this on the age differential I'd like you to know, not on any differences in intelligence between us that I may or may not perceive), I think that my opinion on the matter carries more weight than yours.
Elessar · 26-30, M
@MsBellows The student is a taxpayer too (or will be soon). The world doesn't revolve around your individual needs, it revolves around the needs of the society as a whole, education being (a critical) one. As someone else told you on here, chances are that soon enough you'll be a patient in a nursing home. Shall we defund such facilities too, just because a sizable proportion of the population isn't anywhere old enough to need one for the next decade or two?

No, the fact that you're older and have [b]allegedly [/b]paid more in taxes *[b]so far[/b]* doesn't give you any greater rights or privileges whatsoever.
MsBellows · 61-69, F
@Elessar Yes I'm quite sure the butcher's son who's been perpetually singularly- always- an idle dreamer (the boy in question did A level Theatre Design, Politics and Home Economics (ie cooking)) will be a great success now that he's studying Media Studies at Polytechnic university and not only will he pay me back in a timely fashion he will also enrich and save the very culture around us all.


Everything above was sarcasm. I know it's the lowest form of wit but one feels obliged to reserve their premium wit for those who do not resort to banal regurgitated arguments and slogans that they picked up from a YouTube video.

The Polytechnic isn't officially a Polytechnic now by the way. They changed it a few years ago in a lame effort to seem a bit more 'red brick'. But they're not fooling anyone and the establishment in question is really a way for those who'd like to defer getting a job for a few years have a prolonged and unwholesome jolly at the tax payers expense.
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