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A while ago, I met a nice and pleasant college student at Starbucks who attends the local 4-year state university here. Well, I thought she was a nice and polite college student until she started talking about her politics. Let me give you a run-down on all of this because as a baby-boomer myself I am quite frankly baffled by the sense of entitlement kids in college have these days.
You see, she told me she wanted to vote for Bernie Sanders because of what he promised about health care and tuition free college, that is to say free college for all. Well, a lot of people feel that way, but isn’t it a little selfish – voting someone up so you can get free stuff everyone else has to pay for? Of course this vote-buying game is something Democrats do early and often – and socialist leaning candidates around the world use this tactic as they rise to power as populist leaders.
Since, now Hillary Clinton is the candidate, he said; “I’m definitely voting for Hillary!” and “I love what she does with gays, minorities, free health care and college,” except she is a Democrat candidate. I asked her what she thought about how Team Clinton and the DNC worked to oust their former favorite candidate, a very deceptive and dishonest move. He told me; “That’s politics!” Seriously, when does a college student suddenly think she knows everything about politics? Plus, where on earth is his loyalty? No loyalty unless she gets free-college tuition and doesn’t have to pay back student loans here.
And guess what, this sentiment is hardly unusual. Did you know that college loan defaults have skyrocketed since Democrats started talking about “free tuition” during the 2016 presidential election? True, it jumped more than 10%. In an article titled The Wall Street Journal; By John Mitchell April 2016 “More than 40% of student borrowers aren’t making payments – new figure raises concerns millions of them may not be able to repay the more than $200 billion they owe.” Well, thank you so much Bernie and Hillary, thank you for undermining another important area of our society. The article states:
According to a quarterly snapshot of the Department of Education’s $1.2 trillion student-loan portfolio, “while most have left school and joined the workforce, 43% of the nearly 22 million Americans with federal student loans are unpaid by January 1.” were staying.” ,” and “Nearly 1 in 6 borrowers, or 3.6 million, were in default on $56 billion in student loans, meaning they went at least a year without making a payment, with 3-million more owing nearly $66 Billions were at least a month behind.”
Since many of these student loans are backed by the taxpayer and the rest become part of citizens’ stock portfolios, we are shifting all current costs and past defaults onto older Americans. In conclusion, I want to add something here. Whenever the government helps create a “bubble” in any sector of our economy, it always doubles down and for what it’s worth, fails to rectify the problem, it’s going to be a disaster.
Besides, if college tuition becomes free, and if the government is involved, trust me; That’s all it’s worth. And the Democrats are they busy attacking Donald Trump for his Trump University? give me a break. It’s time for Democrats to come clean on this problem they created and stop promising things they can’t deliver. Haven’t they learned from Obamacare?
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