Mass forgiveness isn't the solution, but some sort of empathetic policy needs to be discussed. Yes, they took out loans and yes they have an obligation to pay them back. Welcome to being an adult. BUT...
They were lied to about the nature of those loans.
They were put on a pathway that's been the pathway to success for generations, but now isn't.
They had their futures mortgaged to pay for short-term benefits and pay-offs for today's boomers
They had their economy destroyed, their currency shameless inflated, and their cost of living rendered totally unaffordable
They had their job market ripped out from under them by Larry Fink and Blackrock's ESG demands, by government-enforced racism called DEI, and by non-stop floods of both legal and illegal worker replacements.
If you went to college today, you thought you'd have a job when you got out, only to put out 500+ applications, hear back from 3 of them, and get rejected from all 3 at the interviews because you didn't have experience (as a new grad) or they found another candidate who was a better fit (you had the wrong demographics), etc.
I've been there, done that. I even went back and re-trained only to run into the same buzzsaw. So what do you do when corporate America aligns with racist Democrats to destroy your life for the sake of promoting "equity"? Telling the young adult who literally did everything they were supposed to do only to get futtbucked that he's going to have the rest of his future destroyed, that he'll never own a home, never be able to support having a family or kids as well isn't the solution. That's a path to a lot of 988 calls. People are just going to check out. This is quite literally S. Korea and to a lesser extent Japan right now. They're about 3-5 years ahead of us on this.
What they need are jobs, and if necessary, government-mandated job placement. Allowing corporations to continue this farce of lying and claiming no Americans are capable so they can continue to milk H1B and H2B visas is a joke. That needs to stop ASAP.
I agree with everything you said. Forgiveness would be great, an empathetic policy would be good. What wouldn’t be good at all is expecting these people who have been screwed to pay it back without questioning. If we’re here we are questioners. I’m not giving them my money every month without putting up some sort of resistance. The payments are supposed to start 5/5. Coincidence? I think not.
Mass forgiveness isn't the solution, but some sort of empathetic policy needs to be discussed. Yes, they took out loans and yes they have an obligation to pay them back. Welcome to being an adult. BUT...
If you went to college today, you thought you'd have a job when you got out, only to put out 500+ applications, hear back from 3 of them, and get rejected from all 3 at the interviews because you didn't have experience (as a new grad) or they found another candidate who was a better fit (you had the wrong demographics), etc.
I've been there, done that. I even went back and re-trained only to run into the same buzzsaw. So what do you do when corporate America aligns with racist Democrats to destroy your life for the sake of promoting "equity"? Telling the young adult who literally did everything they were supposed to do only to get futtbucked that he's going to have the rest of his future destroyed, that he'll never own a home, never be able to support having a family or kids as well isn't the solution. That's a path to a lot of 988 calls. People are just going to check out. This is quite literally S. Korea and to a lesser extent Japan right now. They're about 3-5 years ahead of us on this.
What they need are jobs, and if necessary, government-mandated job placement. Allowing corporations to continue this farce of lying and claiming no Americans are capable so they can continue to milk H1B and H2B visas is a joke. That needs to stop ASAP.
I agree with everything you said. Forgiveness would be great, an empathetic policy would be good. What wouldn’t be good at all is expecting these people who have been screwed to pay it back without questioning. If we’re here we are questioners. I’m not giving them my money every month without putting up some sort of resistance. The payments are supposed to start 5/5. Coincidence? I think not.