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Feels really good to say that, doesn't it? And totally agree with the loan forgiveness not going far enough. Still forgiveness doesn't fix the problem of what amounts to the next version of the sub-prime loan. You can't keep forgiving and then allow banks to turn around and fund new bad loans. Furthermore, all higher education needs to be more affordable.

Yes it was across the board, but the limitations on who could get it based on wages and loan type meant that the people that benefitted most were from that group.

And, most of this is irrelevant. We’re not in a crisis because of students paying $100k plus to go to an Ivy League school no matter the degree, we’re in this crisis because of loans that paid for education at for-profit technical and vocational schools.

Well, you're missing the point. Any degree you get in a Tier 1 university generally follows two tracks... they're either springboards to a higher degree that is itself valuable, or they're springboard to a professional track. One does not go to USC to get an English Degree just to become an English professor. In fact, most students in those tracks tend to be there because they're either on scholarship or they're angling to get in a professional degree track of some type. People don't spend tens of thousands of dollars to get a degree in women's studies (if your school even has that) because most people that knowingly take on that loan are fully aware of what their job prospects are. That's why the whole worthless degree discussion tends to be a red herring when discussing the college loan crisis.

Not topical.

I'm going to correct you there. It's not a STEM degree that has those benefits, it's a professional degree. Specifically, engineers and architects tend to get that higher earning point because both of those degree types are explicit requirements for licensing. Mathematics, and sciences degrees can be valuable as launching points for lucrative careers but are not guaranteed. Educational degrees are also a requirement for what amounts to an extremely low paying line of work. In fact, most STEM degrees are not much different than an English degree, because the English degree is the most common springboard for one of the most lucrative careers out there.... law.

@katt_goddess, that just sucks. If you're already immunocompromised, COVID can just fuck you up.

But does it, in fact, guarantee higher earnings? Also, how do you account for relatively low paying jobs that require college degrees?

Yes, there absolutely should be forgiveness for the simple reason that the system itself has teetering on collapse for quite some time. That’s not to say it’s a solution, because it isn’t. What it does do is buy some time for more meaningful reforms, including far more stringent rules and limitations on all student loans to stave off another financial collapse.

I'll update this thread as soon as my lil bro gets the finished halftime show up on social media. Takes them a few days to put the full sequence together.

I don't think we have a new critical race theory thread.

Do you plan on giving any blow jobs? If so, yes you should get that looked at. Otherwise, your teeth look perfect.

I hope that poor gator really isn't flying....

Why?

Thankfully, that's too small for me to read.

So a nothingburger? It is a delay tactic to an extent, but if its not affecting any of the confidential documents that would be the centerpiece of an prosecution of him.

That much of an explanation is itself a red flag. They may be covering for another issue.

Also, LFR... Just as advertised. Happy to see OK looked just as strong.

And now for something completely different...

For real.... totally not true.

Also, I find it awfully convenient @Distortedreasoning can seemingly reference a white supremacy problem while ignoring the fact that the country’s president is Jewish. It’s an absurd and trite thing to reference, because it refutes an absurd and trite assertion. Obviously, anti-semitism can exist in a country being attacked by a land hungry neighbor. The fact Putin would use it as an excuse highlights the disingenuous nature of his operation: despots have long used cultural divisions to destabilize localities in advance of and during invasions.

This post requires a source that isn’t Russian.

TIf you look at Pat's graphic, it makes no such distinction between the Azov Batallion and the regular Ukrainian Army which was also operating in the region. So, clearly, it was not just the Azov Battalion that killed 14,000 people. In fact, it likely killed a fraction of that, though I do not believe any reliable data exists on that. Keep defending a murderous despot who is throwing his own hapless citizens into a meaningless war.

If Putin didn't have terminal cancer, he could have waited a couple of years for Trump to "gift" him all the Top Secret intel on Ukraine for the low low price of a complete bailout of the Trump Organization.