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To: S. maltophilia who wrote (497410)	8/24/2022 5:24:51 PM
From: epicure	1 Recommendation Recommended By NAG1 Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 542126

I am loving the repturds throwing feces at the walls because they don't like the student debt forgiveness plan :-) I'm sure this will mostly benefit working Americans. The republicans are all, "But what about people who paid off their debt?" And I say, to those people, well done- go you, you clearly had resources. We had the resources to send 3 kids through as much college as they wanted with zero debt (go us)- but do I begrudge someone else a small amount of debt forgiveness just because I had the ability to pay? I'm not that selfish (unlike the douchebag repturds, apparently.) I mean, should we let people die of Covid without a vaccine just because other people already died of Covid without a vaccine? Hmmm- maybe the answer in repturd land is, "yes!" But sensibly, what is good for college students is good for America. Trust the repturds not to see that, but 'Murrica may be more grateful- and that just might be what chaps that repturd ass the most.

To: S. maltophilia who wrote (497410)

8/24/2022 8:54:23 PM

From: koan

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I think free.

That is what is in the best interest of our society and democracy.

Why do we stop at 12th grade?

Education pays for itself with increased production, and a decrease in crime and social dependency.

The vast majority of the advances we have made in the last 100 years with regard to civil and gender rights and general humanity, start with when we, and the world, instituted mandatory public education K through 12.

Why stop there? A person is not finished at 12th grade to optimize one's mind.

For myself, I made a quantum leap in my thinking after community college, and another after my BS degree and still another after my graduate degree, and am still learning.

Much of my later knowledge came from right here, but by the time I got here I had learned how to learn.

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Education should be free.

Or, at least, much better subsidized than it is now, especially at the state college level. And for-profit "colleges" need to be outlawed. What I hope not to see is those crooks luring in naive kids by implying that they won't have to worry about any debt they incur.