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Permalink Reply by The Shiznit on April 23, 2012 at 4:20am

Great post, March.  I think it's really outrageous, too, that our young people in this country have to start off their lives being in debt to the government; and w/o even a decent guarantee that their "borrowed education" will get them anywhere after they graduate.  

Our "system" needs to be completely overhauled. 

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Permalink Reply by Pulkit on April 28, 2012 at 5:24am

Hmmm ... I'v never had a student loan and I'm not interested in this topic, but I don't like the title. I have a problem with the word forgiveness.

Who are you asking for forgiveness?
The banks?

What did they ever do to deserve to have the status to forgive you?

As I see it, all that they did was to give you some free money to go and study something that they teach (through their control of university funding) so you can then go on to become a wage slave.

That brings me to the question, why not make your own course of study?
Certify yourself ...

The world does not give a shit about the number of papers you have from some phoney institutions telling them how good you are at following instructions or cramming up books of junk. They really only care about how good you are at your work. So if you can be the master of your work, you don't need certificates or degrees.

Don't think I'm preaching without practice. I have held a number of positions at a number of companies which needed skilled, high profile talent. I have been paid well. I now run my own company as the sole employee and don't make nearly as much money. Cause I have had enough money and now I wanna help the world.

Time to take a fresh look at this thing called life maybe? 

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Grabreck on May 11, 2012 at 5:45am

There are two sides to this coin...unfortunately forgiving student loans would only add to worse inflation, taxes, among other things.  The best thing you can do is modify your priorities and what is important to you in this day and age.  Yes there is something entirely screwed up with the system, none the less this is the system we have to work with until there is some kind of revolution or the system caves in on itself.  I am a weirdo in that I study and assign myself small projects and homework people would do in school on my own for a hobby and will not get the certificate because of the strings attached for these subjects and the money you need for classes...  I don't regret it.  In the long run if I do get a loan it will be for some field I have researched and know has a profit.  It's more important now than ever to be wise about how you go about doing it...

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