“… ‘Education should be free. The United States is the richest country in the world, yet students have to take on crippling debt in order to get a college education,’ the movement’s organizers said in a statement on their website.” …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/12/us-usa-college-protests-idUSKCN0T116W20151112
How can you have a successful movement when all of your premises are false?
Astro-turf campaign?
I’m sure all their peers who made the decision to attend CCs, local universities, or low cost institutions will be happy to have their tax dollars go toward paying off the loans for those who were apparently smart enough to attend college, but not quite intelligent enough to run amortization table to determine their payments on the loans they agreed to pay off. Seriously??
I have a young relative who has massive student loan debt who has openly mocked my children for not taking out loans in order to attend top schools. She has told them that she won’t have to pay off her loans bc they are going to be forgiven. She believed she would have zero accountability for her debt. A couple of months her first payment was due and it was a rude awakening.
They made their bed, they need to sleep in it.
“She has told them that she won’t have to pay off her loans bc they are going to be forgiven. She believed she would have zero accountability for her debt.”
So she is not only financially bankrupt, she is morally bankrupt as well…sigh.
Completely agreed with everything posted so far. Happily attending my in-state public with a $0 loan balance.