This Court Case Could Unshackle Americans From Student Debt

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23. easy to say, until you take out student loans based on gov. statistics that

claim long term growth in the field (14% for the next 10 years in my situ), the STATE University claims 100% employment, and the local HR reps LIE to you and classmates about the salary range.

By the time you find out you've been told a string of lies, it's too late and you're on the hook for thousands in loans, half your class can't even get job interviews let alone hired in the field, the other half has been offered 2 days/week per diem so they'll be at the beck and call of the hospital with no way to schedule another p/t job around the ever-changing, last minute per diem schedule, the State University rep is at your graduation "celebration" sweating bullets while giving a song and dance about how you need to just "hang in there" and "you should see the numbers in 5 years" to a group of "celebrants" who look shell-shocked, except one grey-haired old lady with murder and lawsuits swimming in her eyes.

One classmate in his late 50s quietly says, "I can't wait 5 years. I need a job NOW." And the young woman sitting next to you is in tears, and says, "I don't understand. They said 100% employment. These are all part time jobs." And of course, you realise that if you don't get work in the field within 6 months or so, you'll start forgetting everything you learned and they'll be a new class of fresh graduates every year competing for the non-existant jobs.

And being one of the lucky ones and having gotten one of those p/t per diem jobs that is at 75% the hourly rate you and classmates were quoted, with no per diem differential, and not enough to live on let alone pay off the student loans that you'd expected to be able to pay off early... you realize that the degree wasn't worth it to you.

And all the sacrifices you made, the hours and hours you put in, sweating it out, working p/t, studying full-time, straight A's in pre-med level sciences and clinical sciences, to graduate summa cum laude, was just one big fucking joke to the corrupt, lying, thieving scumbag pig-bastards that are sniggering at you while they drive off in their new hummers pulling their yachts to their vacation homes on the water.

Yeah. Really simple. Just don't get a fucking degree in anything because it's all a big, fat, fucking corrupt lie. ALL. OF. IT.