Investors Business Daily - Why Should Taxpayers Bail Out Students Buried in Debt?

[ShootSpeeders]

IBD is right. Idiots go to college and major in BS humanities crap and then can't get a good job since they have no marketable skill. Colleges should teach STEM only.

Why Should Taxpayers Bail Out Students Buried in Debt - Investors.com

april 8 2015
To set the story up, the NPR reporter focused on the plight of Clementine Lindley, who recalls how after graduating she had to "decide whether to pay rent, buy food or make her student loan payments" because her debt was so massive.

How did Lindley rack up so much debt? NPR doesn't say, but a little sleuthing shows that Lindley got her Bachelor's degree in "Liberal Studies" from the private Seattle University and then went on to get a Master's in "Peace and Conflict Resolution" from University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. And now she's executive director of a non-profit in Montana.

There's nothing wrong with pursuing such degrees or careers. But Lindley clearly dug a financial hole for herself by choosing to combine expensive colleges with degrees that aren't exactly in high demand.

 

[ShootSpeeders]

The liberal arts majors just party for 4 years and now they want a bailout - ooh sorry. I mean "debt forgiveness".

 

[jasonnfree]

The liberal arts majors just party for 4 years and now they want a bailout - ooh sorry. I mean "debt forgiveness".

Like you know anything about higher education other than what you learned from right wing media.