I was going to comment on this persons blog but they don’t have the option enabled.
The fact that this website exists is what I think is wrong with America…
I really like the use of “We” like this is a team effort..
Apparently some people that think more like me and are disgusted by this sent her some emails and she posted:
The bottom line is she slapped up a website with no content with a big donate button. We are not stupid we know exactly what she is doing.. Furthermore if you don’t want to come across as a beggar you might not want to put down that your GOAL is 200,000$ in donations. To restate, the goal is that strangers pay for 100% of the student loan..
And of course it is rational to say that having strangers pay for your student loans is not taking the easy way out.
And yet the donate button still works because .. hey.. free money is free money..
Why are these people donating and encouraging this kind of behavior.
If she doesn’t pay back the loan, tax payers will as they were forced to co-sign her loan. This is the problem with government do-gooders, they end up leaving the very people they are trying to help in worse shape after all the unintended consequences unravel. Anyway, we can criticize this young woman all we want, but only morons would co-sign 200000 in loans to a 19-20 year old who got a degree in sociology, but hey, don’t dare oppose this and other policies as you will be branded “anti education”. Good luck to her and the thousands of others who are in her situation.
Nick I agree with you, I have believed for a long time that part of the agenda is to put policies in place that wreck the systems such as healthcare and education so they can point to it and say its messed up and we need to “fix” it (disregarding the fact that they were the ones who broke it). I would argue that the government giving and lending allot of money out could contribute to the cost of education. I know online schools are counting on this gravy train of federal dollars that keep on rolling in. Since they don’t have to manage the risk of not being able to pay the loan back (thanks to the bankruptcy laws around student loan debt) why would they care that you are taking out a 200,000$ loan for a worthless degree?
However a definite role in the rising cost of education is people that blindly take out 200,000$ loans to go to school because society says that is what we have to do to get ahead. Colleges know this and keep on extracting more from the “suckers” and enslaving them afterwards. I have fallen for this trap as well.
This was my responce to her
You are such an idiot, you went to Northeastern? I can understand Northwestern but Northeastern? What is that some kind of online college? On top of that you went to a second rate community college and racked up 200k in debt???? I am in the same boat but the big difference is I went to Penn State, my loan balance is 170k and you dont see me asking for donations, I work and pay 1k a month to my loans. Here is an idea.. maybe you shouldnt have got a useless degree from a useless school, not to mention i bet you were not working while in school and just partying. You make me sick.