My daughter just got her masters and is working as a PA in a GI clinic. She makes a healthy salary, yet her loan payment is as much as her shared rent in Houston.
She borrowed the money, and she clearly understands that she owes the money she borrowed. That’s not the issue. It’s the predatory interest that is eating these kids alive.
She has a servant’s heart and already sees herself moving into functional medicine. But without these loans, how would she ever been able to pursue her dream? It sucks all around.
We have several critical strategic deficits. One is the inability of a majority of our youth to physically and medically qualify for military duty. Another, specific to this topic but equally dire, is the state of education. Foreigners are taking all the STEM degrees because American kids can't compete coming out of our schools and choose relatively easier course work.
We have been in deficit for decades. We were behind the Soviets and when they put up Sputnik, we got a wake up notice. The Government spun up the National DEFENSE Student loans to support national strategic imperatives in STEM education in Colleges and universities. But later in the great society Adam Clayton Powell and cronies managed to change the strategic focus to a generalized program as the National DIRECT student Loan program. And now we have lots of humanities, and social psudo-science and business majors who take up administrative state position in government and industry and are incapable of developing anything but policy and procedure documents.
They have been shutting out smart American kids from both grants/sponsorships and corporate jobs since the early 80s, even STEM. It is part of the destruction of America. Way back then, American kids had to try to go it by working and taking loans, then be screwed since corporations and even government filled their entry level with foreign students brought here, everything paid, and then sliding into corporate positions. What they say their goal is and the real goal and outcomes are evident. The liberal /arts focus and sending your kids to school to continue their HS education was in more recent decades to support the corrupt university system and brainwash students as dumbing down and limiting prospects progressed. All student loan programs for Americans are a predatory trick, billed as low interest and flexible, but not - another cog in the gut America plan.
My daughter just got her masters and is working as a PA in a GI clinic. She makes a healthy salary, yet her loan payment is as much as her shared rent in Houston.
She borrowed the money, and she clearly understands that she owes the money she borrowed. That’s not the issue. It’s the predatory interest that is eating these kids alive.
She has a servant’s heart and already sees herself moving into functional medicine. But without these loans, how would she ever been able to pursue her dream? It sucks all around.
because foreign students whose expenses were all paid/sponsored got those degrees/positions...
We have several critical strategic deficits. One is the inability of a majority of our youth to physically and medically qualify for military duty. Another, specific to this topic but equally dire, is the state of education. Foreigners are taking all the STEM degrees because American kids can't compete coming out of our schools and choose relatively easier course work.
We have been in deficit for decades. We were behind the Soviets and when they put up Sputnik, we got a wake up notice. The Government spun up the National DEFENSE Student loans to support national strategic imperatives in STEM education in Colleges and universities. But later in the great society Adam Clayton Powell and cronies managed to change the strategic focus to a generalized program as the National DIRECT student Loan program. And now we have lots of humanities, and social psudo-science and business majors who take up administrative state position in government and industry and are incapable of developing anything but policy and procedure documents.
They have been shutting out smart American kids from both grants/sponsorships and corporate jobs since the early 80s, even STEM. It is part of the destruction of America. Way back then, American kids had to try to go it by working and taking loans, then be screwed since corporations and even government filled their entry level with foreign students brought here, everything paid, and then sliding into corporate positions. What they say their goal is and the real goal and outcomes are evident. The liberal /arts focus and sending your kids to school to continue their HS education was in more recent decades to support the corrupt university system and brainwash students as dumbing down and limiting prospects progressed. All student loan programs for Americans are a predatory trick, billed as low interest and flexible, but not - another cog in the gut America plan.