How do you plan to use your $250,000 student loan forgiveness, sir? “Go to India and study meditation”.

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[b]Photo above [/b]- Peace comes from within, but student loan forgiveness comes from the Biden administration . . .[/i]

You can't make up stuff like this. Entitled white guy gets A QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS in student loans forgiven. Then makes plans to go to . . . India . . . to study meditation. (See link below). Shouldn't there be some sort of test before we forgive these loans? Check these people out for substance abuse, or mental instability?

Joel Lambdin is the poster child for why Student Loan Forgiveness is a problem. It's not necessarily a scam for everyone. But Joel should never have gotten a quarter million-dollar student loan in the first place. And he shouldn't have had that loan forgiven. Mr. Lambdin is exactly what he appears to be - some middle aged, entitled white guy who doesn't have a clue.

What courses did Joel rack up his $250,000 in loans on? He studied music at the University of North Carolina. Well, perhaps America does need more classical violinists. Who can tell? But the University of North Carolina? $250,000? We're not talking Julliard School of Music here. Let me repeat that amount again - $250,000. That covers both Joel's bachelors' degree (BM) and masters of music (MM). Hey - University of North Carolina administrators - were you in on this from the start, or did Joel's loan applications slip by while you were watching the Tar Heels in the NCAA finals?

Is it possible to make enough money playing a fiddle to repay $250,000 in student loans? Maybe, if you're first chair violin for the NY Philharmonic. Joel has an extensive online presence, where he owns up to being a “street musician”, “volunteer chamber music participant”, and occasionally filming a music instruction video for people unwilling to take out $250,000 in loans, but who are still intrigued by the idea of learning how to play the fiddle.

So, Mr. Lambdin had no hope of every paying this loan back. Let me go out on a limb here and suggest that both Joel and the admissions committee at UNC knew that he was NOT Philharmonic material. This stops short of being a criminal conspiracy. But is approving quarter million-dollar loans to state college students to take music classes possibly a racket?

Joel – now age 49 – is of course relieved that he no longer has to pay back his loan. One which he hasn't made a payment on since before the pandemic anyway. Joel is now thinking ahead to . . . retirement??? And a trip to India, to study meditation!! PULEEZE . . . can we make sure nobody lends this guy – or anybody else – money so he can learn how to chant “Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti” at some temple in Calcutta? I'm tired of fiddling around with rip-offs like this.

I'm just sayin' . . .

[b][u]~A Gen Xer who got $250,000 in student loans forgiven said he can now finally start saving for retirement — and consider his dream of studying in India (msn.com)~[/u][/b]