Grieving parents hit with $200,000 in student loans

[JayhawkSD]

78. I think you miss my point.

I was not talking about going to college or not going to college. I was talking about personal choices and accepting the consequences of those choices, be that college, homeownership, or whatever decisions one makes in life.

I was taught that whatever consequential choices I made must be informed decisions; that if I did not know the facts surrounding the decision then it was my responsibility to inform myself of those facts and not allow others to make those decisions for me in the form of promises or false assurances. I was taught that the person selling me something was not a reliable source of information upon which to base my decision.

I was taught that when I made a decision which later bit me on the ass that no one was responsible to bail me out of the consequences of having made that decision. It was up to me to suck it up and repair the situation using my own resources.

If I wanted to do something I paid for it with my own money. If I could not affor to do it I didn't do it, or I borrowed money which I paid back in full and on time. These are values which are obsolete.