Bernie Tweeting #CancelStudentDebt

You don't sound like a Bernie Bro. #sad

I'd vote for him if he actually canceled my student loan debt, which he can't, so i won't.

Now that's the ticket!

Go Bernie for 2020! ? ?

Taxpayers (and non-tax payers) benefit from those of us with college degrees. It is similar to why property owners in a county pay for public schools. The community gets a benefit from the educated.

I'm 29 (so in the general age range ranting about student loan debt) and I agree with you. Don't take out the loan if you can't pay it back. Not everyone needs to go to college. Why did I bother to work hard and get scholarships (academic I was a fat math league kid in high school so no athletics for me)/major in a STEM field when I could have just done whatever I wanted and gotten it paid for?

It's a bunch of crap. College is overpriced, yes. But no one is forcing you to go AND there are a bunch of scholarships out there, you just have to work for it.

>There needs to be mandatory finance classes in public high schools.

No there doesn't. If other classes were taught well, if people came out of high school more 'educated' they'd likely be able to make better financial decisions. I don't think that a high school class that most people wouldn't pay attention to would do anything to help the debt crisis.

>I went to a state school

You do realize that most people who go to state schools end up with debt? Sure, it probably isn't as much as those who attend private schools but state schools probably contribute just as much to the problem.

Wiping out debt and making college free is a good idea in spirit, but the education system will need to be totally restructured to make any sort of changes have lasting effects. A free college system won't look anything like the American education system we know today.

Universities have no incentive to reduce costs because of “free” money from lenders and the government. They taken no risks so why should they bother keeping costs down? What’s the point?

What about those who have long passed graduation and repaid their loans? What am I getting out of this?

A tax on university endowments would be a good way to pay for this. Find out how much your alma mater has stashed away and it’ll make you sick.

Bra-ket wrote:

Wiping out debt and making college free is a good idea in spirit, but the education system will need to be totally restructured to make any sort of changes have lasting effects. A free college system won't look anything like the American education system we know today.

Why is that? The costly American college education system doesn't look so good either:

What if instead of retirement match, employers matched student loan contributions?

What if people weren’t allowed to save for retirement without first paying off loans?

But that’s a stupid idea because its not as if millennials today are choosing to save for retirement in lieu of paying off their loans. They’re literally not saving anything and living paycheck to paycheck on their $40K a year salary with $250K in loans. While simultaneously enjoying their 4 different streaming accounts, brunching every weekend including $40 worth of poisonous adult beverages and living in the heart of the city pouring money down the drain in rent payments.

As upset as I used to get with the people who used to come into my ghetto pharmacy, complaining about a $5 copay on a prescription that should have been over the counter for any other normal person while waiving their free Obama phone in my face, are millennials really that different?

I want to major in art history, I don’t care at all about the after college financial disaster I’ve gotten myself into.

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I'm against Bernie's proposal for the reasons you listed. But I do think it's important that Dems start to shine some light on all the irresponsible spending the Reps do. There is this myth that Dems want to increase spending and Reps want to reduce it. When you look at the numbers, it's crap. The Reps like to spend money just as much, if not more, than the Dems.

The small minority of students that achieved a marketable degree are the one's that will be hurt by another

welfare program.

Just watched an interview with one of the winners of Grandma's and when asked what she would do with the winnings

she answered pay off college debt.

The bunch of losers that wasted 4-5-7 years getting worthless degrees should not be rewarded (and parent's should be responsible for 100% of debt).

And if they wipe out all existing debt - HOW does that solve the problem? Is the education system going to be free for all future students so this will not happen again?

Bernie is just another politician playing to the lazy welfare crowd.

lil diglett 401k yee-haw wrote:

What if instead of retirement match, employers matched student loan contributions?

What if people weren’t allowed to save for retirement without first paying off loans?

But that’s a stupid idea because its not as if millennials today are choosing to save for retirement in lieu of paying off their loans. They’re literally not saving anything and living paycheck to paycheck on their $40K a year salary with $250K in loans. While simultaneously enjoying their 4 different streaming accounts, brunching every weekend including $40 worth of poisonous adult beverages and living in the heart of the city pouring money down the drain in rent payments.

The problem is the ridiculous $40K a year salary for four (4) years of college? That's not a livable wage with today's high cost of living.

$40K a year is more like what a HS graduate should get for a low-skill job. These greedy CEOs are only focused on profit margins for themselves. The multi-millionaires want to become billionaires...the billionaires want to become multi-billionaires...and so forth. Who cares about the college-educated employees inundated with student loan debt -- just pay them low wages and tell them that they're lucky to work for the company...so seems to be the motto of big business these days.

Most of the student debt crisis is because people that had no business going to college went and then dropped out after 2-3 years with no degree. I read something the other day that basically said of the students with debts over 75K that 75% had not graduated.

People live beyond their means. No one wants to live in an apartment and drive a crappy car. Young people today think they should stay in the same lifestyle they had with their parents. It should take you 20 years to get back to the lifestyle and no one wants to wait. This is also why they move back in with their parents.

How About Responsibility? wrote:

The small minority of students that achieved a marketable degree are the one's that will be hurt by another

welfare program.

Just watched an interview with one of the winners of Grandma's and when asked what she would do with the winnings

she answered pay off college debt.

The bunch of losers that wasted 4-5-7 years getting worthless degrees should not be rewarded (and parent's should be responsible for 100% of debt).

And if they wipe out all existing debt - HOW does that solve the problem? Is the education system going to be free for all future students so this will not happen again?

Bernie is just another politician playing to the lazy welfare crowd.

That's Trump propaganda BS:

This right here is the problem, people believing 40k a year isn’t a liveable wage, as if to live they NEED to spend 3k a month!

Come on.

Also are we really not able to find a more need worthy group than college graduates?

How about we look at canceling all medical debt, or creating a contingency fund for underfunded pensions first.

And you need some politician to change your diaper?

I took out $110,000 of loans so that I could go back to school. I was 31 y/o and working two part-time jobs in the mall. I wanted a career, and doing a masters seemed like a good idea. To some extent, I feel like I was tricked. First, I was told that I would be eligible for loan forgiveness after 10 years. When I graduated I discovered that the system was a mess and there were few eligible jobs. Second, the salary doesn't match up to what the admissions advisers advertised.

So, here I am. I have been working for 3 years and earning $65,000. I decided to put my bad decisions behind me, knuckle down and pay off the debt. I have now paid it off down to the last $12,000. I could have put that money into my retirement, into a house, into a car, or bought new clothes, like the other people that graduated from my course. You know, the people that say "oh, I'll probably never pay off this debt".

Well, we all know life is not fair. The policy of writing of student debt is not fair - It disadvantages people who planned and worked hard to improve their future. Sanders should spend some time to think about who gets hurt by this policy, and what sort of a message it sends out. In conclusion, if such a law ever comes into effect, I will be going home to my small, sparsely-decorated apartment devastated.

How About Reality? wrote:

How About Responsibility? wrote:

The small minority of students that achieved a marketable degree are the one's that will be hurt by another

welfare program.

Just watched an interview with one of the winners of Grandma's and when asked what she would do with the winnings

she answered pay off college debt.

The bunch of losers that wasted 4-5-7 years getting worthless degrees should not be rewarded (and parent's should be responsible for 100% of debt).

And if they wipe out all existing debt - HOW does that solve the problem? Is the education system going to be free for all future students so this will not happen again?

Bernie is just another politician playing to the lazy welfare crowd.

That's Trump propaganda BS:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2019/3/7/18216899/bernie-sanders-bro-base-polling-2020-presidenthttps://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/4299321/millennials-bernie-sanders/%3famp=true

the millenial crowd is now the welfare crowd