22 thoughts on “Laura Ingraham’s story about 73-yr-old mom waiting tables to pay her student debt, didn’t go as planned”

1. I might be more sympathetic if modern education was actually teaching people to become effective citizens instead of lifetime children.

2. The only student loan forgiveness must come from the universities ONLY. They benefited from these loans and returned unusable degrees. Now they should pay that money back. NOT THE TAXPAYERS who had nothing to do with these profits.

3. The way we were raised if you can’t pay back a loan then you don’t get the loan. No one came to bail us out. If you took a loan it’s your own responsibility to pay it back.

4. There is no reason I should pay for anyone’s student loans, which is exactly who is doing to pay for other peoples’ bad decisions. I couldn’t afford to go to college, so I joined the marines, did my 3 years, and got my college education paid for by the government. There are far more alternatives to getting a $60,000 per year education. These young adults made their choices, and now want those who did not get student loans to pay for those who did. I call BS on this one. I also don’t know if China Joe can do this legally as all spending bills must originate in the house, and this is a $1.6 TRILLION cost for the American taxpayer. FJB

5. It’s not debt elimination. It’s debt transference from those who signed for the debt to those, I.e., the taxpayers, who had no say in those debts.

6. What’s weird is no one is talking about FUTURE College costs. Let’s say we get rid of every dollar of DEBT on Sept 1, 2022. Starting the 2nd of Sept the NEW students with zero debt start ACCUMULATING DEBT on that day. Who pays those dollars?

7. She said her mother paid “our” student debt, WIKI already has the quote about her mother posted! Nothing there about siblings. She has three siblings, the most well-known is Curtis, a gay school teacher. But that’s a whole lot of student debt to put 4 kids thru college.

8. HILARIOUS: “I don’t want others to learn the way to handle debt is to take advantage of others”……YET YOU WANT ALL OF THE STUDENT DEBT TRANSFERRED TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER WENT TO COLLEGE, NEVER TOOK OUT THE LOANS AND ALREADY CAN’T AFFORD GAS TO GO TO WORK? Cancelling student debt is EXACTLY taking advantage of others…..morons.

9. How much of these student loans are for living quarters and food. This sounds to me like welfare. Remove living expenses, that is not part of education. We all have to pay for our living expenses, this should not be covered by any means. They could live at home and go to local colleges, commute to school. I suppose next they will want to pay for transportation if you choose to go to schools. How about paying back the monies to those of us whom chose not to attend a college but started a business, created debt and put people to work that paid taxes. This is all BS.

10. I have a friend who’s nearly 70. She’s in great shape and recently decided to go back to work at The Olive Garden part time just for the exercise and a chance to mingle with others. We don’t know all the facts about Laura’s mom. Maybe it was her choice to keep working.

    1. How much debt did she go into in order to work at The Olive Garden?

11. MY question is… WTF was Laura’s mother doing getting a law degree in her 70s?
    Even if it was when she was in her late 60s, (IF she was a smart lady) she HAD to think/weigh the cost of getting a law degree FOR JUST THE HELL of it, vs “I’m going in tens of THOUSANDS of dollars in debt!” For a degree she’s never going to need/use. So, sorry. Laura DID step on it THIS time… No way around it.

12. The unhinged, angry, progressive left’s absolute ignorance of how student loans work is epic!

    Newsflash, more ons……
    >the individuals actively sign the loan documents, so ignorance is not a root cause (outside of the fact they are products of our union-ruined U.S. education system when they sign it!)

    >there is no such thing as magical debt forgiveness….someone, somewhere, either holds the debt or has to eat the debt

    >going $200,000 into debt to obtain a degree in Middle European art history, Ethnic and civilization studies, Travel and Tourism, etc., where the data is clear you’ll either never get an actual job in that field or you’ll never make enough money to support yourself, are examples of stupidity
    >are you more ons aware that President Obama has actually caused this mess?

13. Good diversion to high inflation, rising taxes and gas prices, food shortages, thirty three billion to Ukraine while our own people are exhausted from increased prices, less buying power, higher unemployment, higher death rate among younger people, including airline pilots, an insane elder abuse victim of a president with dementia. Unprecedented illegal border crossings by disease leaden possible terrorists from points unknown. Great smoke screen. Redirect to some absolute nonsense time killing wasteful garbage that ignores the real problems.

14. Spunky Mom is correct

15. This entire situation just goes to show how incompetent the US government is and has been. This is, first, about the unrestrained increases in the costs of higher education due to collusion between the university system and the government through the guaranteed student loan program. Secondly, the value of many university degrees in the business world is questionable. Science and business degrees have value. Social science degrees and similar are worthless, yet every university ‘sells’ them. If you cant directly use them to get employment the degree should not be eligible for student loan financing. Yet they are. The university system has been build on the backs of students and the taxpayer. Fix the corruption first. PU.

16. Pay off student debt for anyone who got a degree in any areas of STEM and who are actually working in the area they’re degreed in. Everyone else, GFY and your worthless degree.

17. I love how these debtors make what they later decide is a poor contract decision and then decide they should have others not involved in that decision (aka the taxpayers) bail them out of that poor decision. Sorry. Not my problem. We saved and invested for our children and they went to state schools vs. the elitist (and costly) indoctrination centers. They could have gone to the latter. No thanks. Why should we now have to pay for someone else’s financial stupidity?

18. I wonder how many of these loan forgiveness crybabies have children they would encourage to borrow money to pay for college? Any and all forgiven loans should be counted 100% as income, no exclusions, and taxed at the current rate.

19. “You graduated Dartmouth in 1985,” wrote one user. “Your mother died in 1999. From 1985 to 1999 you worked as a presidential speechwriter, and editor, and, after law school in 1991, clerked for US circuit judge and was an associate for one of the largest law firms in the country.”
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    How is this making the case for changing the rules of a contract after it is made to pass the school debt of people, who knew full well what they were getting into, onto the working poor AKA tax payers? There is no argument that can be made to support that.

20. The “poor unfortunate souls” who were LIED TO by colleges and DEMOcrats have themselves to blame ALONG WITH the DEMOcrats who KNOWINGLY LIED to them! When The Segment of Excrement obama took over the student loans I posted this would lead to an explosion of costs and end up being a VOTE BUYING scheme that the dems would hold over the heads of the same “poor unfortunate souls”!! VOTE FOR DEMS AND GET YOUR LOANS FORGIVEN!! NO – I worked through college and paid my was after an initial $800 loan (back in 1972). I lived at home and commuted 60 miles per day! The DEMOcrats could have done this during TSOE obama’s second miasma but didn’t because OF the expected POLITICAL DAMAGE! Now they have a turnip in oFFice and think all will be forgotten or blamed on biden! I do believe they will ride this all the way to Nov 2024 and then pass the BUCKS!

21. Problem is all these high priced scollars who are brainwashing the kids while their parents and or the students support their flagreant life style. Not to mention their big bonuses. Go ahead and keep supporting them while their steal the minds and souls of our children. If anyone has ever priced gouged America , its our colleges.

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