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CPT Jack Durish
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I wonder if it's too late. The cost of college rose exponentially when student loans came into existence. Basically, students were flush with easy cash and schools competed for them by improving school amenities rather than scholarship and educational facilities and equipment. Well, they can't now simply abandon those amenities if student loans go away. Sadly, the college and university system may simply crash and burn thanks to government meddling just as the healthcare and mortgage industries crashed and burned when the government meddled in them. Even sadder, the government isn't as flush as it once was and simply can't print money to make the problem go away, not any more...
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Maj John Bell
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SPOT ON!!!
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I'm sure they are going to have strict control measures and if the student does not comply they are removed. This is not a Community College that accepts all.
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CPT Jack Durish
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CPT (Join to see) - What difference will strict controls make? If students don't have access to cheap loans, how will schools pay for all those investments in amenities that have nothing to do with eduction?
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Maj Marty Hogan
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This is going to be such a double edged sword. My son is 30 and never finished a full year of school but has more student loan debt than he will ever be able to pay back. They kept giving him more, he would get in trouble, they would kick him out of school with a new bill charging him for the full term. Simple greed. Closing- did you know I am an asshole cause I would not co-sign?
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MSgt Nondestructive Inspection (NDI)
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How dare they... i love my kids but I wouldn’t jeopardize my retirement by cosigning crap for them either. I signed up for extra few years to make sure I can transfer my gi bill to them. That is where my financial charity ends. My kids aren’t at that point yet but in 6 years I will see how it goes. I plan on signinng them up for the guard or reserves when they are seniors.

You should bring his ass out to the base and sign him up for crew chief.
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Maj Marty Hogan
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MSgt (Join to see) - can't. OWI and few other issues that stop him. Brought him out when he was 19. My old boss is the MX commander and asks me all the time. He also is a good worker, but he is different than me. I would have jumped at the opportunity when I was his age (obviously). He turns 30 in Feb and pretty set in his ways- over qualified and under achieving. A state HVAC is opening and he is qualified. Did you know you have to work 40 hours a week in something like that?
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MSgt Nondestructive Inspection (NDI)
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LOL I wish I only worked 40 hours a
week. I wouldn’t know what to do with all my spare time!
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CPT Executive Officer
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Yeah, I would have informed those idiots that giving someone wih no credit tens of thousnd of dollars.
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LTC Multifunctional Logistician
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How is this tagged libertarian? It is anything but. America does not have a student debt problem. The individual that filled out the paperwork to request a Federal Aid Student Loan and defaulted has an issue repaying the taxpayers whom payed taxes to the Federal Government which then redistributed their earnings.
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SFC Thomas Butler
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And charged interest.
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The school is going solo, compared to big government.
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I was looking at if you have a business and can raise 100k for your project then more power to you. As long as the government is not subsidizing, which is case for outrageous financial aid scam
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