Let’s hear from all the “suckers” like me who are stiffed with paying student loans for 40 million other people.
The timing of this is actually incredible for the situation my daughter is in. She is a senior in college @ UW-Madison and has worked summers, a day most weekends, and a couple evenings per week during school and is on track to graduate from college debt free.
We paid for more than half of her school & she has been responsible for covering the rest. We’ve preached to live debt free and she’s busted her arse to do it. My wife and I now look like the fools for encouraging her to be responsible.
I did some quick math. She makes $17/hr. To save up $10K she had to work 588 hours.
588 hours = 74 8-hour days
588 hours = 144 4-hour shifts
She needs to continuing to working through the end of the school year to reach her goal of graduating debt free, while others get bailed out by you and I – the taxpayers.
Am I mad. Yes. Is she mad. Yes. This government bail-out is a slap in the face of people who are responsible and live within their means.