I privatized my predatory government loan and am getting no handouts because I made the fiscally responsible decision. Only irresponsible people get relief. How fair is that?
My grandfather died from polio before the vaccine was created, how fair is that?
Not a fair comparison at all. Polio can’t resurrect the dead and fix its past mistakes. The government can. I paid the predatory rate for years before getting smart about it. It kept me from generating wealth and drove me deeper into debt due to the lack of free cash flow. The government made its money back on my loan and was just profiting off of me for years to come. Not a fair system. When they said the loans would turn on again the first time, I pulled the trigger on a lower interest private loan. The damage was already done though. They owe me a check if everyone else gets money wiped away.
Well maybe you weren’t as smart as you think you were. Seems like the smart play would have been a defer all those payments until right now. That’s what the smart people are doing.
You made your own mistakes deal with them
People who got taken advantage of with no resources to help themselves are getting help, that’s a good thing. I’m not getting anything out of it, but someone else is, and my upper lip is stiff. Maybe you should consider that.
predatory government loan
privatized … fiscally responsible
Man, I know things are über fucked in the US, but WTF is this nonsense?
It’s the truth. I went from a nearly 8% interest government loan that was presented to me as a normal thing to do and something that I would be able to afford with a good job to a 3% private loan. I should have done it years earlier, but didn’t really know any better until the government took much more money than the loan was worth. The system is fucked.
People agree to take out loans in order to boost their education level and income later. However, these aren’t like a normal loan, where there is a physical asset securing the loan, so to make them work they cannot be discharged via bankruptcy. Some people find this idea predatory. However, it’s a core part of what makes them work at all. Otherwise, one could load up on the student loans, get their degree, declare bankruptcy, then go out into the job market with the boosted income and not pay back what they borrowed.
During periods of very low interest, it can also be fiscally responsible to replace the loans with fixed-rate lower interest ones. During covid, this was pretty popular since interest rates were rock bottom.
Trust me bro, it’s not like we’re all over here getting handouts and eating ice cream. 99% of us haven’t gotten shit.
The government bails out companies and banks all the time for their poor fiscal choices and no one even blinks. But if they bail out something not a corporation and roughly middle class looking, then it causes an uproar.
You made a stupid decision and you’re paying for it. What do you want, some free socialism? Would you be here bitching if your gambit paid off? If you’ve got a hard on for the private sector you could have stolen some free tax dollars with a PPP loan like the other Republicans.
Being a good little cog in a bad system isn’t something you should be congratulating yourself about.
Debt systems are extractive and produce little net benefit to society, propping them up to expand the suffering because you didnt get sick or hit by a car or whatever is some peanut brained anti-human shit.
That’s not what the plan was though. Last time I checked it would even help those who paid everything off. I’m wondering which news sources you follow to not have noticed that bit.
Also, having policies that make millions of people suffer, what effect might it have on living conditions of everyone? If a few make a bad decision it is on them, if millions made a bad decision it’ll be a problem for society. It could be ignored, but it’ll still effect society.
I took a very different track with mine. I recognized that federal loans had more options for hard times than private loans and made the fiscally responsible decision to not refinance mine with a private company. So only people who were responsible enough to consider that the government is more likely to protect you than a for-profit money grabbing predatory private loan servicer are getting relief.
