Defaulting on student loans carries the same consequences as defaulting on any other loan. I don't hear you guys bitching about that. Either way, the bank is going to win.
Just how the hell is a bank going to win when people default on syudent loans? It's not like they can repossess your education and sell it to someone else.
You have to clear it via repayment or bankruptcy just like everything else. Is your complaint that most students don't have collateral to secure a loan? So what? You are going to limit student loans to people that don't really need them anyways?
If this was such a screw job for the banks, they wouldn't be in the lending business. As it stands, banks are more then happy to lend to students. They know it's a relatively safe investment. Much more safe then a home or small business loan.
Funny. People default on loans every day in this country and have everything they own liquidated and still come up far short. Most of the borrowers have acted in bad faith.
You guys never ***** about them. You ***** about students, because they are an easy target and (frankly) some people on here simply hate/resent those who have gone on to try and obtain a higher education.
Nice of you guys to look out for the banker's interest though. They certainly need all the help they can get. I mean times are hard. Bank of America is now going to charge me every month to access my own money in my own checking account.
Like I said, "and you wonder why the middle class in this country is eroding". We have turned on ourselves so that the uber wealthy can become even wealthier.