Reply #162: Hilary promised loan forgiveness for teachers

[Nevernose]

If they served at least ten years in public education. She called the current system "indentured servitude" and she was right. She cake to speak at the high school I worked at and it was the first time I'd seriously considered her (I'd actualy been an Obama supporter since '04, when Harry Reid first flew him as a candidate (no, it wasn't actually Dick Durbin).

One of my closest friends is a lawyer. As a deputy DA (and a super conservative one at that :) ), he makes with benefits close to 175k a year. And what does he pay in student loans? Nothing, because he went into public service. He'd be the very first one to tell you that I was smarter than him, had a better education than him, and had a harder job than him (you can probably surmise that I'm a high school teacher). Yet hos loans are forgiven due to "public service" and mine make me a wage slave.

Them there's the fact that so ,any colleges and universities that are for profit or have outrageous loan terms that they're essentially predatory. So yes, in some instances I'm for loan forgiveness.

Have y'all ever seen the stats on the Iraq War cost? We could have sent every graduating senior in America -- FOR AN ENTIRE GENERATION -- to university. For free. So instead of enslaving our children, I think demanding loan forgiveness is perfectly valid.