Working two shifts all month so you could give your kids a decent Christmas? Struggling to put food on the table as prices skyrocket?
Sit back and enjoy this tale of woe as a published book author, journalist, and Davidson College professor details the struggles he and his wife have had paying off her third university degree.
The average salary of a Professor at Davidson College (where Issac J. Bailey, author of the article, works) is $133,925*.
Considering his wife is also employed, and both are of the second-most** privileged class in America, it would be shocking if they did not make over $200k each year. Draw your own conclusions as to whether cancelling her student debt is "fair."
* $134k is the average across 86 Professors at Davidson. Someone with a named chair such as Bailey almost certainly makes more than the average. ** Yes, the second-most privileged. If you belong to this felicitous class, being able to speak normal American English (when convenient) and not having any major felony convictions means you will be automatically placed above 95% of white and Asian applicants for any position. For those of you wondering who the most privileged class is, well you figure it out. All I'll say is that at least the MPC is generally smart and hard working.
My parents paid to put one of my older brothers through college. He had offers from many schools to play football for them, including Dartmouth, who told my dad that they didn't have a scholarship as such, but they had a very generous alumni. My brother didn't want to go so far from home, due to having a girlfriend. So instead he went to a small private school, here in Michigan, which cost basically the price of a new, cheap car every year for 4 years. When it was my turn to go to college the same year after my brother graduated, my being 4 years after him, along with my twin brother, my parents told me that they would help me as much as they could to get me through college. Having seen what they had gone through to get my brother through college, I told them, " No way", and would never let them give me a dime to take any of the classes that I took in the future, although I have taken about a years worth of classes, added together. It was after I had made my mind up as to the direction that I was going to go, that I got several offers to also attend college and play football there, with varying degrees of partial scholarships, with one being a full tuition offer, for the freshman year. Since I had already made my mind up, it was too late, but I have no regrets, since I didn't cause my parents any worries as to how they would come up with money to pay for my college bills. My 4 siblings cannot say the same thing. If I was not willing to pay for loans for myself, why would I want to pay for student loans for anyone else? Or be forced to pay for those loans.
Crap like this is why I am going to ask for a refund of all the student loans I took out and repaid. Now, to be honest it was lower then $6,000 dollars and was not a burden to pay as a nurse. I worked my kester off nights and weekends as a nurse's aide to pay the rest of my education and living expense while in school. I didn't take trip to ski resorts. My big highlight while in school was McDonalds once a week I didn't have to cook or mom and dads for dinner...
The guy who runs the weekly garbage truck in my neighborhood is black. I assume that he doesn't have a college degree and thence no student loan debt. So he pays taxes to pay off the loans for these over privileged people because he has racially oppressed them. Seems fair.
So the article doesn't say what useless study these entitled POS have degrees in or what the non doctor doctorate will be in. I'm reasonably confident that none are in any of the STEM programs. Oh and yea government jobs tend to pay less but most include every holiday off with pay, vacation availability after the trial period, generous taxpayers paid insurance and retirement benefits and many offer full retirement after 20 years. So tell me again about public service. Fuck most of them lazy bastards. JD
All the crying about student debt yet they didn't complain about the outrageous tuition. We need to get the feral government out of the student loan business. Make the kids go back to traditional funding. You want a student loan from this bank? Let's see your school transcripts. Good grades? Awesome. What school do you want to attend? University B? Good school. What were you planning to major in? Gender studies? Take a hike. A doctor liar err lawyer, or engineer has a pretty good shot at repaying their debt. My sister spent almost fifty years tracking down deadbeats for the universities. I paid for my schooling. These kids can too. They just need to get off their asses and work.
Gee, my son's loan is not government and he works in the private sector so he won't get any forgiveness. He's a Democrat, though, so maybe someday. We don't discuss politics in the interest of maintaining a relationship but it's all I can do to not ask him what he thinks of his President. Course, he voted for Bernie last time so who knows?
This article makes me ill. I had to stop reading about a third of the way through. This is the same tripe that the twit AOC was spouting a couple of weeks ago about having the U.S. .gov pay off her student loans.
It's pure boooollllsssshhhhiiiitttt. You decide to educate yourself, in some field that doesn't pay shit, THEN you want the rest of us to pay for that? I don't think so.
What about all of the people that have gone before you, educated themselves AND paid off their debt already through hard work and scrimping to get above water. Are we then to reimburse them for paying off their loans?
Fuck these people!
ReplyDeleteThe average salary of a Professor at Davidson College (where Issac J. Bailey, author of the article, works) is $133,925*.
ReplyDeleteConsidering his wife is also employed, and both are of the second-most** privileged class in America, it would be shocking if they did not make over $200k each year. Draw your own conclusions as to whether cancelling her student debt is "fair."
* $134k is the average across 86 Professors at Davidson. Someone with a named chair such as Bailey almost certainly makes more than the average.
** Yes, the second-most privileged. If you belong to this felicitous class, being able to speak normal American English (when convenient) and not having any major felony convictions means you will be automatically placed above 95% of white and Asian applicants for any position. For those of you wondering who the most privileged class is, well you figure it out. All I'll say is that at least the MPC is generally smart and hard working.
You ought to know by now that Liberals are not responsible for their actions, whether it's signing contracts or firing firearms or banging children.
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ReplyDeleteNope.
IGDAF.
Paying my student loans at age 65, and not bitching about it.
I borrowed the money, it improved my employment prospects, And I both am able to, and will, pay it back in my one income household.
So Professor Jerkoff can FOAD.
Yeah. Degrees in basket weaving do not pay well.
ReplyDeleteGetting pretty tired of the bureaucratic class. Maybe need to thin the ranks.
Ass wholes!
ReplyDeleteMy parents paid to put one of my older brothers through college. He had offers from many schools to play football for them, including Dartmouth, who told my dad that they didn't have a scholarship as such, but they had a very generous alumni.
ReplyDeleteMy brother didn't want to go so far from home, due to having a girlfriend. So instead he went to a small private school, here in Michigan, which cost basically the price of a new, cheap car every year for 4 years.
When it was my turn to go to college the same year after my brother graduated, my being 4 years after him, along with my twin brother, my parents told me that they would help me as much as they could to get me through college. Having seen what they had gone through to get my brother through college, I told them, " No way", and would never let them give me a dime to take any of the classes that I took in the future, although I have taken about a years worth of classes, added together.
It was after I had made my mind up as to the direction that I was going to go, that I got several offers to also attend college and play football there, with varying degrees of partial scholarships, with one being a full tuition offer, for the freshman year.
Since I had already made my mind up, it was too late, but I have no regrets, since I didn't cause my parents any worries as to how they would come up with money to pay for my college bills. My 4 siblings cannot say the same thing.
If I was not willing to pay for loans for myself, why would I want to pay for student loans for anyone else? Or be forced to pay for those loans.
Crap like this is why I am going to ask for a refund of all the student loans I took out and repaid. Now, to be honest it was lower then $6,000 dollars and was not a burden to pay as a nurse. I worked my kester off nights and weekends as a nurse's aide to pay the rest of my education and living expense while in school. I didn't take trip to ski resorts. My big highlight while in school was McDonalds once a week I didn't have to cook or mom and dads for dinner...
ReplyDeleteThe guy who runs the weekly garbage truck in my neighborhood is black. I assume that he doesn't have a college degree and thence no student loan debt. So he pays taxes to pay off the loans for these over privileged people because he has racially oppressed them. Seems fair.
ReplyDeleteSo the article doesn't say what useless study these entitled POS have degrees in or what the non doctor doctorate will be in. I'm reasonably confident that none are in any of the STEM programs. Oh and yea government jobs tend to pay less but most include every holiday off with pay, vacation availability after the trial period, generous taxpayers paid insurance and retirement benefits and many offer full retirement after 20 years. So tell me again about public service. Fuck most of them lazy bastards.
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Time to go for the FOURTGH degree.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. "A LIFE LINE OUT OF POVERTY": Become a professional student.
All the crying about student debt yet they didn't complain about the outrageous tuition.
ReplyDeleteWe need to get the feral government out of the student loan business. Make the kids go back to traditional funding.
You want a student loan from this bank? Let's see your school transcripts. Good grades? Awesome.
What school do you want to attend? University B? Good school. What were you planning to major in?
Gender studies? Take a hike.
A doctor liar err lawyer, or engineer has a pretty good shot at repaying their debt.
My sister spent almost fifty years tracking down deadbeats for the universities.
I paid for my schooling. These kids can too. They just need to get off their asses and work.
Gee, my son's loan is not government and he works in the private sector so he won't get any forgiveness. He's a Democrat, though, so maybe someday. We don't discuss politics in the interest of maintaining a relationship but it's all I can do to not ask him what he thinks of his President. Course, he voted for Bernie last time so who knows?
ReplyDeleteThird degree? Let me guess, none of them were in economics.
ReplyDeleteYou will note that student loans (and tuition) didn't go parabolic until the government monopolized the lending.
ReplyDeleteThe wealthy need to pay their fair share, right? So Harvard, with the world's largest endowment, needs to pay off these student loans.
ReplyDeleteThis article makes me ill. I had to stop reading about a third of the way through. This is the same tripe that the twit AOC was spouting a couple of weeks ago about having the U.S. .gov pay off her student loans.
ReplyDeleteIt's pure boooollllsssshhhhiiiitttt. You decide to educate yourself, in some field that doesn't pay shit, THEN you want the rest of us to pay for that? I don't think so.
What about all of the people that have gone before you, educated themselves AND paid off their debt already through hard work and scrimping to get above water. Are we then to reimburse them for paying off their loans?
Where does it end?
Nemo
Just another welfare jogger parasite. He probably thinks its cancelled and not paid by us. Did you see the title of his book. Hope he got the jab.
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