Comments by "dbergerac" (@dbergerac9632) on "White House to forgive $39 billion in student loan debt" video.

@SpeakerOfTruth444 I'm pretty sure that the MAX payment is the actual balance.
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@toddwerther188 So the next batches of graduates will have no "student loan crisis"? Of course they do, and with precedents, they will keep funding bailouts forever, passing the debts along to the grads who got this one. There was no loan reform included, so this is the seed of a very long term entitlement to buy votes in the short term.
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@qwerther44 If I make a campaign promise to buy your vote LONG AGO, keeping it is still buying your vote. The best "loan reform" for student loans would be to detach the government guarantees; suddenly lenders will refuse to accept the risk of lending large sums for frivolous degrees, only making loans that have a chance to provide a return to the borrower.
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I agree; how can an 18 year old right out of high school appreciate the decades of consequences from their inexperienced vote? No adult resposibility or accountability until 21.
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The average person cannot use "medical debt" to party for years and then expect the taxpayers to pony up for it. Choose to borrow, choose to pay.
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@RationalistRebel So you are saying that those students (not "most") who wasted years of time and resources in out-of-state schools seeking worthless degrees in "xxxxx studies" are morally equivalent to people forced to assume medical debt to survive? - Two degrees at two universities over two decades, married to a college professor, value added.
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@RationalistRebel People who are financially responsible are indeed subject to the whims of fortune. Being financially responsible ( not unlike looking both ways before crossing the street ) is a tested means of reducing those risks; better than passing misfortune to more people who gained nothing, agreed to nothing, had no opportunity to make the choices and stood to receive no benefit from those choices.
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The donor class? LOL
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