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Tweet of the Week: AOC’s “student debt”

Irredentist said:
Why not? What's the problem with providing cost free education to anyone who wants to take classes, whatever the subject? Where is the harm?
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Well, as long as the taxpayers are paying for anything sign me up for Champagne and Lobster Tasting 201 and How to Oil Up Swedish Bikini Models 300.

I think I’ll start woking only Masters by taking Living in a Beach House 430 and Driving a Ferrari 400.
 
NatMorton said:
Then I suggest you read the OP as you’re clearly confused on what this thread is about.

As for no one caring about what I write here, your repeated replies to my posts are evidence that you care. Though if you’d rather gum-up some other thread that would be fine with me.
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I know this thread is a stupid dig at AOC. Should I leave if I don't have a vested interest in ignoring her point like you are?
 
Cope said:
Business is kind of just a catch all.

I've been noticing those Magna aren't worth the effort required (YMMV of course) except in pretty specific circumstances (Law, medicine etc)
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Nah. You have an unsubstantiated opinion.
 
aociswundumho said:
The high prices are caused by the increased demand which in turn was caused by dumbass government giving out college loans like candy.

The same thing happened to the housing market in the mid-2000s when the dumbass government loosened lending standards so that anyone with a pulse was able to get a mortgage.
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show your work
 
JustAFella said:
I know this thread is a stupid dig at AOC. Should I leave if I don't have a vested interest in ignoring her point like you are?
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The OP doesn’t ignore her point; it challenges it. And yes, if you can’t muster a reasonably intelligent counterargument it is probably best for you if you leave. I’m good either way as gibberish-in-opposition serves a purpose.
 
reflechissez said:
show your work
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Seriously? Didn’t know the era of “liar loans” and its effect was still a bone of contention for some.

The financial crisis of 2007-2008 was years in the making. By the summer of 2007, financial markets around the world were showing signs that the reckoning was overdue for a years-long binge on cheap credit. Two Bear Stearns hedge funds had collapsed, BNP Paribas was warning investors that they might not be able to withdraw money from two of its funds, and the British bank Northern Rock was about to seek emergency funding from the Bank of England.


Yet despite the warning signs, few investors suspected that the worst crisis in nearly eight decades was about to engulf the global financial system, bringing Wall Street's giants to their knees and triggering the Great Recession.


It was an epic financial and economic collapse that cost many ordinary people their jobs, their life savings, their homes, or all three.


KEY TAKEAWAYS​

  • The 2007-2009 financial crisis began years earlier with cheap credit and lax lending standards that fueled a housing bubble.
  • When the bubble burst, financial institutions were left holding trillions of dollars worth of near-worthless investments in subprime mortgages.
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Source: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/financial-crisis-review.asp
 
Deuce said:
You...missed the point.

Of course, that will happen when you literally only listen to sentence fragments.
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So people who can't afford to go to school have to support the ones that can?

Why not just have people pay their own way. If somebody wants to waste their life getting a doctorate in gender studies they should have to pay the consequences not the taxpayer.
 
JustAFella said:
I have. I pay it all off every month. Most kids out of college don't have that luxury of paying off their student debt like that. You need a college education these days just to get your foot in the door.
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Perhaps the current labor market will finally compel employees to reconsider their embrace of credentialism and start re-evaluating whether a four-year degree is truly necessary for the jobs for which they’ve been requiring them.
 
In my opinion, we could be solving several problems at the same time with equal protection of our own laws.

How would potential students be worse off with equal protection of our at-will employment laws for unemployment compensation in our at-will employment States?
 
I had over $60K in student loan debt when I left college. I paid every dang penny of it on a teacher's budget -- 20 years early.
 
Josie said:
I had over $60K in student loan debt when I left college. I paid every dang penny of it on a teacher's budget -- 20 years early.
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Would you have had any debt at all with equal protection of our own at-will employment laws for unemployment compensation in our at-will employment States?
 
danielpalos said:
Would you have had any debt at all with equal protection of our own at-will employment laws for unemployment compensation in our at-will employment States?
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Your "equal protection" angle on this subject has not made any sense the last eleven times you've posted it. Further repetition is not helping.
 
NatMorton said:
Your "equal protection" angle on this subject has not made any sense the last eleven times you've posted it. Further repetition is not helping.
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Your "rebuttals" make even less sense. You need valid arguments for that not just a right-winger implying he must be for the "gospel Truth" according to scripture.

True witness bearing must require morals and right-wingers apparently don't have the moral fortitude.
 
NatMorton said:
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Absolutely spot on.
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AOC's partner in corruption got slammed for making the same stupid statement that AOC made.



They are both...regardless the degrees they need to pay for...dumb as fence posts for thinking the government has any responsibility to pay for debt that they freely took upon themselves...for thinking the federal taxpayer should give them and others like them almost two TRILLION dollars. Hell, the federal government doesn't even HAVE two trillion dollars to spend.
 
Equal protection of the at-will employment laws for unemployment compensation solves more problems, is more market-friendly, and less arbitrary and less socialistic for right-wingers to complain about.
 
danielpalos said:
Your "rebuttals" make even less sense. You need valid arguments for that not just a right-winger implying he must be for the "gospel Truth" according to scripture.

True witness bearing must require morals and right-wingers apparently don't have the moral fortitude.
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You have a very inflated opinion of your message and of yourself.
 
Mycroft said:
AOC's partner in corruption got slammed for making the same stupid statement that AOC made.



They are both...regardless the degrees they need to pay for...dumb as fence posts for thinking the government has any responsibility to pay for debt that they freely took upon themselves...for thinking the federal taxpayer should give them and others like them almost two TRILLION dollars. Hell, the federal government doesn't even HAVE two trillion dollars to spend.
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We simply have too many people who are willing to believe their problems are of someone else's making (and far too many politicians willing to leverage that confusion.)
 
danielpalos said:
Not at all. You merely have unsubstantiated opinions which You are unable or unwilling to substantiate with valid arguments. Thanks for playing,
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What's "unsustainable" about insisting that functioning, educated adults live up to their obligations and pay their debts? Please be specific.
 
NatMorton said:
What's "unsustainable" about insisting that functioning, educated adults live up to their obligations and pay their debts? Please be specific.
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It is about equal protection of the laws, in this case, for unemployment compensation in our at-will employment States.

I can agree with you that arbitrary and capriciousness only leads to more socialism. Equal protection of the laws leads to more market friendliness for economic purposes.
 
NatMorton said:
Your words have absolutely no connection to the conversation being discussed in this thread. Are you a bot?
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Analogies must be a difficult concept for right-wingers. Would students as a class be worse off or have more debt with equal protection of the at-will employment laws for unemployment compensation in our at-will employment States?
 
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