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RedPixel posted...

My wife and I are working 4 jobs to pay off the remaining $66,000 we owe on both of our student loans and car. I'm 26 and will be debt free next year because we're both fortunate to have nice paying jobs, but it is really stressful. I wouldn't wish this shit on anyone. I take full responsibility for my loans, but I feel like I've been financially raped in the sense that there were a ton of unnecessary classes for me to do what I wanted to do at a price of nearly thousand bucks a class.

I wish everyone's student loans could be wiped away because there's no need to go to school for 4 fucking years to do the job you're going there for.

That said, Bernie's a fucking bleeding leftist idiot with noble liberal intentions and I think a better solution would be to dismantle the entire education system and offer online classes and opportunities for growth for free if the course material doesn't change. Those that do, well, its a bit easier to justify the insane prices to learn if the material changes. Such as organic chemistry. Whatever.

It's a money making scheme right now, education that is. Even the resource books etc, are changed every year, but offer the same info, they just have different work sheets, page numbers etc, so students need to shell out money (alot of it) for books.

The actual cost of education is very little, testing can determine if students have learned the required material, and can be done very cheap (look at testing for new teachers for instance, Person etc does it for like $50...same could be done for college classes). Leave HOW someone learns the information, up to the individual and just test for knowledge in order to get a degree.

You at least are not yelling that you and your wife have paid your loans so everyone else should have to as well.....which is a common argument. The problem is many can not, or will not be able to, and some have gotten more then raped, due to the EXTREME cost for things like a law degree and then law school. When you start off with 100k in debt, and THEN you go work as an attorney and discover you make less for the first 5 years or so, then the job you did in waste management while going to school....well, that person ended up going back to her original job after 2 years working at the same firm as my wife (who got paid significantly more due to having experience, was not expected to work 60+ hours and never allowed into court etc). She ended up with over 100k in debt initially, and know way to keep up with the interest.

It's bad enough for a BA degree, masters can easily cause you to end up going negative permanently, and if you go for law degrees, law school etc, the high cost degrees, yeah, it can get insane fast.

It's crazy, and not fair...but at least people have warning now, up until about 10 years ago most everyone was saying going to college was worth it, and people believed it.
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