Time to move to Costa Rica!
Obviously, someone who is seriously brain-damaged needs to have loan forgiveness.
However, someone who has enough “going on” that they can go to college and graduate, should not either be given loans if they can’t ever work, or have loans forgiven.
What would happen if after “loan forgiveness,” the person starts working?
The article @partyof5 linked to contains this illuminating point about the high disability rate in certain US counties, made by the white-collar journalist investigating:
Something to think about. But I agree with @mom2collegekids; if you’re capable of completing a college degree program, it’s hard for you to make an argument that you are disabled from holding white collar desk jobs.
There are a lot of jobs where people either sit a lot or could be in a wheelchair.
If these folks are going to claim that they can’t work because of “back pain” or other issues that many deal with while working, then it opens up the issue of: how can employers be accused of discriminating against certain disabilities if the gov’t doesn’t expect that those with those ailments can work? Or how can students be denied their “right” to get a student loan, when they have a disability that is deemed unemployable.
These things need to be looked at more closely.
I’m concerned that, as a country, we’re moving towards a system where too many can either easily opt out of working (and get taxpayer money, or get some accomodation and bring a ESA animal with them everywhere (but only when they want to), and that causes a bunch of unintended consequences.
There’s a cost to all of this, and I don’t think this country can afford it.
This country already can’t afford it, and the problem is just getting worse.