Tweet of the Evening:

[applegrove]

On Laura Ingraham's mother working till she was 73 to pay off Laura's student loans:

Link to tweet

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[Timewas]

2. These people

They need to get over themselves, the loans should not even be necessary to start with.

[Escurumbele]

4. "the loans should not even be necessary to start with." you are 100% correct.

[NullTuples]

5. There is a different possible solution going forward, too

What about using taxpayer funds to make all public schools tuition-free, just like K-12?

[NJCher]

8. the point is not student loans

the point is Ingraham's complete and total selfishness in failing to take care of her loans, which she could well have done with those types of jobs.

[Timewas]

17. That too

I think it is about both actually, she is normal representative of repug mentality...But the loans are a travesty.. The USA at one point had one of the best educational systems in the world and it was affordable. This is no longer the case we are probably pretty low on the list now.And that is what it is all about...The dumbing down of the populace.

[BSdetect]

3. These repugs are incapable of not lying. Liars are horrible.

[not fooled]

6. Of course any media covering this story should have worked this out

by looking into Ingraham's claims. But, as so often happens, the RW hater gets to spew a story that goes largely unchecked and therefore scores them political points with the ignorant and resentful.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

18. Meany media reps, including both the NYTimes & Fox have said that ferreting out the truth

is not their job. Reporting what "he said, she said" is so much easier and apparently the limit of their responsibility.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. Talk about being a leech. My first kid started taking over her loan obligations after two years.

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My other three are in school.

When they get out, they'll be doing the same.


While it shows up on my credit report, she assumes the payments, and I'm always there if she needs me.
I had to co-sign for her undergraduate loans, but she is solely responsible for her graduate loans. And
she is placing an accelerated payoff on my co-signed loans to free my credit.

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[dchill]

9. Ingraham could never have had any respect...

...for a mother who didn't repay the debt she personally owed!

[Septua]

10. Ingraham is a...

..Weapon of Mass Distraction, a card carrying member of the cult who spews her special flavor of propaganda.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

11. While student loans are a rather special category of loans,

I learned over 50 years ago NEVER co-sign on a loan. I saw several instances of friends who'd cosigned, then the original borrower disappeared, and surprise, surprise, they were now fully responsible for the loan. It was a hard lesson, easily learned. Easily because I was not a co-signer, but I saw the incredibly negative outcomes of co-signing.

I would not co-sign for a child or parent. I'd take out a mortgage with a spouse, but not a partner, not if we're not legally married.

Another huge, undiscussed problem of student loans is that young people will major in totally impractical things, with zero regard to the ultimate job prospects. The placement offices in colleges are always frustrated, because students never come to them, never look into what they might actually do with that degree.

[Justice]

12. Ingraham's father's ancestors were here pre-American Revolution. They were Loyalists not Patriots

They fled to Canada during the American Revolution and only returned after the Patriots won.

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Nazi Salute Laura Ingraham that is.....racist POS

[SKKY]

14. I can guarantee you ZERO of her followers even bothered...

...to look it up to see if it was true.

[gratuitous]

15. So, because Laura's mother had to work until she was 73

Everyone should have to do that, even people who don't have a mother or whose mother can't work until she drops dead from exhaustion.

Remember when part of the American Dream was hoping your children had an easier life than you did? Now, we have to be in service to the overrich until we kick the bucket.

[calimary]

16. Somehow I'm not that surprised.