Wiping Out $90,000 in Student Loans in 7 Months

[bluestate10]

81. I am not calling the guy virtuous.

I do know something about the filed that he likely works in and the industry, he is doing honest work and would be fired if he was not. I don't approve of his flask trick, my choice when in a similar situation out of college was to not go out or join friends for inexpensive cookin potlucks. Choice that people make do have consequences, you are so high on your high horse that you ignore that fact. In one other post, I did math for a person making $10 per hour, with no overtime and a $20,000 student loan total. You can contest the conclusion all you want to, but simple math says that person can pay off the student loan within 5 years with some sacrifice.

I think you are also trying to paint me as a blind low percenter. I apologize if that isn't the case. I happen to think that a college or trade school education should be FREE for every student that wants one. The benefit that the country gains in taxes paid over a person's working life cries out for free higher education. But the reality is that we DON"T have free higher education and students come out of college or trade school burdened with loans. In that context, my point was paying off those loans is not the impossible task that some here make it.