Ayanna Pressley - More Progressive Stupidity

[workerbee]

That's BILLIONS folks. Top 10.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/the-short-list-college/articles/10-universities-with-the-biggest-endowments

SCHOOL (STATE)		END OF FISCAL YEAR 2020 ENDOWMENT		U.S. NEWS RANK
Harvard University (MA)		$41,894,380,000		2 (tie)
Yale University (CT)		$31,108,248,000		5
Stanford University (CA)		$28,948,111,000		6 (tie)
Princeton University (NJ)		$25,944,300,000		1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology		$18,381,518,000		2 (tie)
University of Pennsylvania		$14,877,363,000		8
Texas A&M University		$12,720,529,611		68 (tie)
University of Notre Dame (IN)		$12,319,422,000		19
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor		$12,308,473,000		23 (tie)
Columbia University (NY)		$11,257,021,000		2 (tie)

 

[BOP]

If you don't get a loan there is no need to pay it back.
That is basic.
The people who got these loans should have thought about that before they took them out.

Where were the parents of these kids who failed to teach them basic honesty and economics.
Who failed to teach them that taking out loans are a responsibility to pay them back.
Taking out loans for thousand and thousands of dollars to study something that will not find you a job that pays enough to repay that debt is not something anyone with enough intelligence to attend a college would do.
Don't get me wrong the Government was stupid to get into this college loan business to start with.
It is one of the reasons why Colleges are so expensive now.
But why should I have to pay for the college education of a child that is not mine.

Or pay for college for anyone who isn't me or mine? Hell, I told my youngest to go into the military so she could pay for college.

 

[CPUSA]

So, the Dems/Progressives may be stupid for incurring this debt, that which they knew they would never be able to repay....
But sure enough, WE will be paying off their debts...and we won't hold them accountable to pay back to society in any way, shape or form...

Showing we're not only the REAL stupid ones...but that we're enslaved to the slacker class and unwilling to change our lot in life...

 

[Clem72]

I don't understand why the discussion is always about cancelling the debt. If the debt is too burdensome and unfair, why not try to fix the issues with tuition costs moving forward and restructure the existing debts to a zero interest loan (or incredibly low interest, like the prime rate). That way they aren't "crushed" by the interest but we don't force others to subsidize the entirety of their poor choices.

 

[Merlin99]

This is something I learned earlier this year. A lot of these classes can be taken for free from these name brand institutions

MIT OpenCourseWare | Free Online Course Materials

MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity

ocw.mit.edu

 

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[glhs837]

Hate to say it, but I sure wouldn't mind a little loan forgiveness. Wife had it before we even met twenty plus years ago - and she is still paying it off. At this rate, she'll still be paying it when she RETIRES.

But it really points to something entirely different. Is there any good reason why college education should cost the same as a HOUSE? What is so freaking costly about teaching stuff for a few years? The buildings? Salaries? It sure ain't the hours. Three hours a week per class. What a racket.

No, there's no reason college should cost so much except that there's no reason to LOWER costs.

I totally agree about the cost of the college education. It's absolutely insane. The other aspect is this sales pitch that if you get a degree in ridiculous freaking topics you'll make a s*** ton of money doing them in afford to pay off the debts and that's just not fiscally possible. Society is not paying social workers 200,000 a year to be able to afford to pay off $120 can debt. Unless the field you're entering has some remote chance of paying you a wage that allows you to live and also service that debt then I'm sorry the loan shouldn't get made. Also, there should be FasTrax available for people who just want to work in a field without having to take 5000 unrelated courses in the name of rounding them up as people. They can choose if they want to do that themselves

 

[glhs837]

I don't understand why the discussion is always about cancelling the debt. If the debt is too burdensome and unfair, why not try to fix the issues with tuition costs moving forward and restructure the existing debts to a zero interest loan (or incredibly low interest, like the prime rate). That way they aren't "crushed" by the interest but we don't force others to subsidize the entirety of their poor choices.

Sure you do. We don't want to hurt the educational industrial complex do we?

 

[gemma_rae]

This is why I wish Ayanna Pressley had incurred more student debt.

 

[Hijinx]

I can't see myself taking a lot of information from a woman with a shaved head and basketball hoops through her ears.

 

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Ayanna Pressley Stuns CNN Anchor By Repeatedly Insisting Border is ‘Secure’​

Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) this week claimed repeatedly that the southern border is “secure,” leaving CNN anchor Jake Tapper stunned.

“No doubt about it, our border is secure,” Pressley said Wednesday on CNN. “And we are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis, and we have to fix a broken system —”

“You think it is secure? You think the border is secure? Or it is not secure?” Tapper interrupted her.

“I believe that we are in the midst of a humanitarian crisis and there needs to be federal investment to support those migrant families,” Pressley said, adding that the crisis is a consequence of “longstanding broken policies.”

“I don’t disagree with this being a humanitarian crisis at all, but just to get some clarity on this … do you think that the border is secure? Is that what you said?” Tapper asked again.

“Yes, the border is secure,” Pressley said, adding that the border situation is one reason Congress should avoid the impending government shutdown.

“But if you have millions of undocumented migrants coming into the country, how is the border secure?” Tapper pressed.

“Jake, this is not a new crisis,” Presley said, adding that the situation requires “more political will and commitment.”

“I’m not disagreeing with anything you’re saying except for the idea that the border is secure. I mean if you have people crossing the border, it’s just by definition not secure,” Tapper said.

He added that some critics argue the porous border encourages migrants to put themselves at the mercy of smugglers who prey on them.

“It just seems like such a refusal to acknowledge reality, to say that the border is secure when we all know millions of people are crossing the border illegally every year,” Tapper said.

“Jake, and that is a consequence of a number of things,” Pressley said, mentioning “climate refugees,” as well as people fleeing violence and corruption.

“Okay, it sounds like in there, you acknowledge that there are millions of people crossing the border illegally, which would mean that the border is not secure,” Tapper said, adding “would you grant me the point that the border is not secure?”

“Jake, that is a conversation for another day,” Pressley responded.

 

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WOKE Black Congresswoman Declares She IS TRIED OF White Men Failing Up In UNHINGED Rant In Congress!​