• You'll never pay off that student loan, sweetie

    From Byker@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 9 16:57:24 2020
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    "Millions of student loan borrowers will have to make payments again soon":

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5UWrvAz0HQ

    College has to be the biggest scam of the modern era.

    In the 1970s I paid $6.25 per semester-hour for Freshman-level courses,
    ending with Senior-level courses for $12.50 per semester-hour, with my books costing not much more, all covered by the G.I. Bill. When I graduated I
    didn't owe a cent.

    I am SO glad I got that out of the way forty years ago...

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  • From B1ackwater@21:1/5 to Byker on Wed Dec 9 22:23:10 2020
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    On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 16:57:24 -0600, "Byker" <byker@do~rag.net> wrote:

    "Millions of student loan borrowers will have to make payments again soon":

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5UWrvAz0HQ

    College has to be the biggest scam of the modern era.

    In the 1970s I paid $6.25 per semester-hour for Freshman-level courses, >ending with Senior-level courses for $12.50 per semester-hour, with my books >costing not much more, all covered by the G.I. Bill. When I graduated I >didn't owe a cent.

    I am SO glad I got that out of the way forty years ago...

    The people who made the A-bomb, who put people
    on the moon, who built the computers that made
    the moon possible, who built the X-planes and
    spacecraft ........ they somehow managed to get a
    really top-rate education WITHOUT going into
    permanent debt. Their colleges had top profs and
    state-of-the-art equipment (or built it themselves),
    all without extortionistic tuition.

    College today .... "scam" is the wrong word. Put the
    word "criminal" in front of however you describe things.
    Where the hell is all that money going ??? Try to find
    out and you will be thwarted and misdirected and
    force-fed bullshit and inflated figures.

    MY guess, many colleges are sham businesses that
    fund rad-leftist financiers and militants and every enemy
    of America they can find in the world. They may also be
    a sort of money-laundering device for corrupt business
    and political people. Their staff sure as hell aren't seeing
    much of it, so WHERE is it all going ?

    In the 50s and 60s and to a fair degree in the 70s you
    could actually work your way through college. You
    could earn enough from crappy after-school jobs to
    cover your tuition payments and have some left over
    for beer.

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