I am $180k in debt. I have a PHD and am a tenured professor — my students are in the same boat, sinking in debt. I pay $1100/month in student loan debt, half of my rent. We MUST #CancelStudentDebt. Wall St got bailed out, what about us?! #bernie2020 @BernieSanders
— Heather Gautney (@HeatherGautney) June 24, 2019
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30-50 Red Eye Feral Hogs @Red_Eye_Robot
Replying to @HeatherGautney @BernieSanders
Maybe you should have chose an industry like wall street, that is critical to the US economy.#PayYourBills
Sharlene Smith @SmithSharlene
Replying to @HeatherGautney @BernieSanders
Hum, not our fault. Maybe you should have gotten a degree in finance. I worked to help put myself through college and when I graduated I had zero debt, no sympathy here. Took a little longer, but hey I also retired early.
It is called take care of your self and planning!
Rosarian @Rosarian4
Replying to @HeatherGautney @BernieSanders
PHD in what? Cultural dance? Maybe you should have thought about that before you took out your loan. I can't afford a Range Rover either.
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8:15 PM - Jun 24, 2019
โก๏ธErick Brockwayโก๏ธ @erickbrockway
Replying to @HeatherGautney @BernieSanders
Rob a bank. Same thing as stealing it from me.
Sara H. ๐๐ฟ๐๐พ๐๐ฝ๐๐ผ๐๐ป @HobackSara
Replying to @HeatherGautney and 2 others
Here’s an idea: all that $2200 you pay in rent every mo? Move. Put half that towards your student loans.
Not gonna feel sorry for a tenured professor who wants to keep up her standard of living but not have to pay back what was borrowed on her own free will.
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5:41 PM - Jun 24, 2019
Aloysius Snuffleupagus @SnuffyforShort
Replying to @HeatherGautney @BernieSanders
So people who never went to College, should pay for your PH.D? Cool story #taxationistheft
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4:32 PM - Jun 24, 2019
Charles X Proxy @Charlemagne0814
Replying to @HeatherGautney @BernieSanders
Tenured in what, social sciences? Because this is the sort of stupidity that comes with the social "sciences."
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7:47 PM - Jun 24, 2019
malcolm rawlingson @GlobalFire123
Replying to @HeatherGautney @BernieSanders
Oh my goodness Heather. Who advised you to take on such an enourmous debt load. Did anyone do a cost benefit analysis with you before embarking on this?
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4:28 PM - Jun 24, 2019
Charles DeGlopper @bronzebarbarian
Replying to @HeatherGautney @BernieSanders
You raise a good point.
We shouldn't let people who can't pay off their own debts go around teaching other people the same bad habits.
Date: August 13th, 2019 12:22 PM Author: Claret Stag Film
This is the problem with the left conditioning everyone to be a victim and to look to the gov't for a bailout.
Why not direct that anger at the schools for what they charge? That is the real crime. Schools do not need to be nearly as expensive as they are. You can trim a lot of fat from schools.
RE your second sentence, I definitely agree it's outrageous that while wages have remained relatively stagnant, tuition has increased about 4 billion percent. HOWEVER, I have absolutely no sympathy for people described in the OP.
Date: August 13th, 2019 3:05 PM Author: crawly point
Yea it's hard to have sympathy for someone like that but this goes so far beyond personal irresponsibility. The govt shouldn't create a button for people to press to destroy their lives for the benefit of school endowments.
Agreed. You'll have a hard time racking up $200,000 in debt for a shitty degree if that were the case (unless the government fucks it up by forcing lenders to do shit like that).
Date: August 13th, 2019 5:32 PM Author: floppy snowy plaza
Are those comments just random Twitter users or are they top GOP operatives? They all devastate the fuck out of her from different angles and give additional comfort that trump will pwn Pocahontas