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SergeStorms

(20,791 posts)
4. Like I said...
Mon Apr 5, 2021, 10:21 AM
Apr 2021

there's good and bad points on both sides of the issue. You've painted a picture of everyone having lofty goals, and getting an education for the benefit of everyone. Sadly, very few people are getting degrees so they can be social workers, although those people do exist. For them there should be some sort of program that reduces their outstanding student loan for their community service. Like the Job Corp program in reverse for College grads.q
Not everyone has such lofty goals. Should we give some little greed-head 50k forgiveness of student debt so he can become a stock broker or the next Ken Lay? No, we shouldn't. I'm against any blanket student loan forgiveness.
Your opinion obviously differs, and that's alright. Trying to get Congress to pass legislation for blanket student loan forgiveness is a pipe dream, though. A program that offers debt forgiveness for specified occupations, even for short durations, has more of a chance of passing.
There has to be a happy medium somewhere.

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