Psaki: Student loan borrowers likely to have to pay debt 'sometime'

[Effete Snob]

18. "and actually lambast those who bring it up"

Those amaze me.

I paid full tuition for my kids and it was not easy. It was a real sacrifice. Quite a few tens of thousands of dollars a year.

But, c'mon, not every young person has parents who can do that. I don't understand how I'm supposed to begrudge them the opportunity to use that education in the best way they can, and not necessarily "what pays the loan". We all benefit from that.

We all benefit from it. It's utterly no skin off my back if their loans are forgiven. Yeah, sure, it would have been great not to spend all that money and put it elsewhere, but so what?

The argument against it is the argument against changing ANYTHING - "Oh, but people made assumptions based on the way things were" - yeah, they did. Not long ago, young people made life plans and assumptions on the proposition they weren't going to get killed in Vietnam too, but it happened. This is college tuition. Come on.

But, there's a lot of things I don't understand. People line up to vote against school tax increases because "I don't have kids" as if their social security is going to get paid by elves someday. It's those kids we are counting on. So, let's make sure they have what they need.