tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054521671768779399.post8302081106804821545..comments2023-10-30T12:22:17.806-04:00Comments on Liberty Takes Effort: Free College and Student Loan ForgivenessLiberty Takes Efforthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13398225334133635697noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054521671768779399.post-5253534186291415802020-03-10T08:17:53.599-04:002020-03-10T08:17:53.599-04:00This is the first time I have read your blog posti...This is the first time I have read your blog postings. I found this to be a very interesting article. Appears you have covered all bases. As of late, the following has been my thoughts regarding student debt and loans. I am a high school graduate from 1970. At that time, most men and some women were able to support a family and obligations that go along with the family with just a high school education because they would get jobs in the in the factories. And my particular case, being from the Detroit area, it was mostly assumed that you would go to an automobile factory or the steel mill. The pay was excellent the benefits were great. Now, that was based on just a high school education. My thoughts now are that if we were able to support a family on a high school public education back then, why would it not be feasible now to have a public 2-year community college funded by the government (as our high school education was paid for). Strict criteria would have to be followed and if you didn't meet this criteria you would <br />no longer be able to attend and your funding would be cut off. I know you can't get the best paying job with the two year degree, but it would be a start. If you were successful at your community college, it would be up to you to continue your higher education at your own ecpense.<br />Now to the second side of this. Vocational and trade schools are so very important to our society that keeps our country rolling along. I think companies should be given incentives to offer internships for the different trades. Or treat it like my above scenario and have it funded by the government for one year, possibly two if necessary. Again following strict regulations for the student to stay in said trade class. Most trade schools after usually one year, can make a very very nice living.<br />Now to the present: unfortunately students signed on the dotted line for their student loans many,many years ago and are doing so currently.<br />I don't think student loans should have ever had interest added to this already heavy burden. But I'm also of the opinion that if corporations can file for bankruptcy, then students with extraordinary student loan debt should be able to do the same.<br />It appears that the cost of higher education gradually started going off the rails in the mid to late seventies to the present; yet wages to pay for these increases we're not going up to help pay for this student loan debt. I have to wonder if there was ever any checks & balances on tuitions that our public universities and colleges were/are charging. That may have kept the cost down to make it affordable for students trying to get a higher education. Kathy Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00356950462013541010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8054521671768779399.post-36437033643821750922019-12-12T08:26:31.814-05:002019-12-12T08:26:31.814-05:00Great info! I recently came across your blog and h...Great info! I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have.<a href="https://loansinfo.info" rel="nofollow">personal loans</a>John Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07832850486011817276noreply@blogger.com