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Should be a wild four years.

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The Ugly One said:
Tuition is high because the feds give out so much free money to pay for it. I want all the free money gone, the grants and the subsidized loans. Starve the universities.
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It will never happen. NEPO Babies use those loans to start their careers. I personally know quite a few people that did this. Obligatory I am not saying anyone should do this because you can get in trouble for doing certain things with it.

You see, there's no real auditing to student loans. So as long as you maintain the minimum class requirement to be classified as a student, it doesn't really matter what you do with the rest of the money. You can take out loans for a full year, sign up for 1-2 online classes, be classified as a student and start businesses. Its not the best strategy but if you don't want to deal with investors, or are simply a nobody, it's an easy way to get started while accruing some credits.
 
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Party Hat Wurmple said:
It will never happen.
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A lot of things I want will never happen. Ending subsidized federal loans, shutting down the Federal Reserve, repealing the 17th & 19th amendments, canceling Medicaid, 20 mm autocannons blasting apart migrant caravans on the border, but if there's one thing I learned from school, it's that it's never wrong to dare to DREAM.
 
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Party Hat Wurmple said:
It will never happen. NEPO Babies use those loans to start their careers. I personally know quite a few people that did this. Obligatory I am not saying anyone should do this because you can get in trouble for doing certain things with it.

You see, there's no real auditing to student loans. So as long as you maintain the minimum class requirement to be classified as a student, it doesn't really matter what you do with the rest of the money. You can take out loans for a full year, sign up for 1-2 online classes, be classified as a student and start businesses. Its not the best strategy but if you don't want to deal with investors, or are simply a nobody, it's an easy way to get started while accruing some credits.
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If you come into the country for college from wherever, China, India, wherever, do you get access to all the standard grants like Pell or whichever one is free and doesn't have to be paid back?
 
phatdoobz420 said:
Personally I’m not against them. But I think you should only be eligible after your first year. I knew about 15-20 people when I was in college that fucked off for two semesters of drinking and partying and of course flunked out. So 20 people wasting a year is 5 full educations that could have been paid for for people who applied themselves. I think you should pay for your first year and get reimbursed after the fact. Then moving forward it’s covered. Also I think it should heavily prioritize STEM. Any liberal arts degree should be heavily scrutinized for eligibility
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If we had a grant system that was actually about enabling education instead of handing out free money to niggers (nearly every federal program is actually a racial spoils program tarted up with high-minded language), you would have to pay back your grant if you flunked out of school.

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The fact that you cannot discharge student loans is absolutely fucked.
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You used to be able to, but so many students were doing it that it was bankrupting the program. That's why they're no longer dischargeable. Student loans are incredibly stupid from the creditor's POV, because they:
  • Require no collateral
  • Don't test for creditworthiness
  • Don't require payments for years
  • Do not try to assess the value of the thing purchased with the loan
So yeah, of course a ton of them are loaned out to garbage borrowers for garbage reasons. They're the most garbage loans in the world. The program should be shut down or radically reformed, but that's about as likely as my border autocannons.
 
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MrJokerRager said:
Bros, I think I am ready to sell out my country for that.

WTF, a commie that isn't fat and looks in decent shape.

Why don't the Democrats use her young male outreach.

Thank you jewsaw for discovering a commie Democrat that isn't fat or tatted up and better looking than AOC.


I do not even know what she said for the entire 5 minutes but damnnn....
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Yeah, I don't see it. People are too thirsty. Not being fat should be a bare minimum for healthy living, not a talking point.
 
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Lian Xing said:
I think there is some confusion and you meant to quote someone else.
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Correct. I meant to quote this:
CraftyCat3 said:
You can discharge student loans in bankruptcy. That's a common misunderstanding repeated everywhere, including the farms apparently.
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Can you please cite this? I would like to know more.
Sensitive Young Man said:
Only guilty on the two prostitution transportation counts, acquitted on everything else. Holy fuck what kind of deal did he make
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He probably snitched. Prosecutors always want the bigger fish.
The Ugly One said:
So yeah, of course a ton of them are loaned out to garbage borrowers for garbage reasons. They're the most garbage loans in the world. The program should be shut down or radically reformed, but that's about as likely as my border autocannons.
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A better idea would be the government not guaranteeing these loans so banks stop doing it and luring kids into debt bondage.
 
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