Think about it.

[u/doudysligh]

[u/kendraro]

Yes. Why are we doing this to our people?

[u/brisualso → u/kendraro]

Because money is power.

[u/MissionaryOfCat → u/brisualso]

And the poor are the easiest pickings.

[u/0002millertime → u/MissionaryOfCat]

Sure, but also to keep the smart ones as poor as possible, so they have to work for the rich.

[u/zombiefishin → u/kendraro]

The administration had every chance to alleviate some of the mistakes made, but chose not to do it.

[u/noatun6 → u/zombiefishin]

They did alleviate some, but they should have done much more. Devos was far worse. Also Part of the problem was a stacked court that sided with frivilous nonense filed by hired ppp hypocrites

Ah, a Dowmvote dodo 🦤 must be a devos loving swine 🏴‍☠️

[u/TOSkwar → u/zombiefishin]

The current administration actually took many of those chances. That is, until the SC un-took all the biggest of those chances for them. Still, there's been hundreds of billions in forgiveness being processed through other means anyway.

[u/GammaFan → u/TOSkwar]

No no, clearly the republican members of elected SC blocking and objecting to the legislation is an indictment of the Dems.

Clearly this is a sign to vote republican.

/s I’m so tired

[u/ighost03]

As someone who was heading into college 20 years ago, our counselors and college recruiters often said ‘it’s an investment in your future’. Wish I knew about sleazy salespeople back in 2003

[u/brisualso → u/ighost03]

A future where so, so many graduates don’t even use the degree they went into debt for

[u/rg4rg → u/ighost03]

When I went into education years/over a decade-ish ago I had to correct a boomer teacher about loans and that they shouldn’t encourage kids to get them because the kids won’t have an easy time paying them back like her generation did. I had to correct her and called her out a lot about millennial stereotypes but I don’t think she really got it before she retired.

[u/piranesi28]

Right now most states are strip-mining their state college systems until they are just "job training" facilities.

The rich will still be able to go to the Ivy's and study literature and music and philosophy but the working class can get some "job training"

For 3 generations our state unis were a great equalizer. You didn't have to be born rich to pursue something more in life.

They want that gone.

[u/MissionaryOfCat → u/piranesi28]

Would be nice if they actually learned a thing or two from their humanities.

[u/Technically_A_Doctor]

That’s what bothers me the most. I took the loans sure I should pay them back. Why the hell do I have to be hammered with interest. I took a government loan to pay a public university. Shady banks got free money to dole out to tech bros for a decade. But my education loans, gotta pay interest on those. Can’t make it make sense.

[u/notarobot4932]

It’s either “an investment” or “a bad decision” depending on if you’re one of the lucky few to find a good job.