Re: “your priorities for my money may differ from mine” - the one-step plan to student debt relief

[rooty]

Good one zeeeeeeeerenan -

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On May 31, 2019, 5:13 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> Zerowedgie schlichs it again :)
>
> Gen-me says I want, I have, and all responsibility is a problem for
> another day.
>
> Reality catches up eventually, and perhaps some time in the next year
> or so, a very very big reality is about to catch many millenials by
> the short or shaved.
>
> Kurt Schlichter has a speedy and ready solution to student debt.
>
> The real problem is of course entitlement breeding, but that great
> depression is for another, soon to come, day.
>
> Create your world yo :)
>
> Schlichter: Dear Students, Here's A Plan To Solve Your Debt Problem
> https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-31/schlichter-dear-students-heres-plan-solve-your-debt-problem
> https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2019/05/30/students-heres-a-plan-to-solve-your-debt-problem-you-wont-like-it-n2546947
>
> So, you’re a barista with a problem – you took out $200K student
> loans to get that master’s degree from Gumbo State in “LGBTQ2#v&
> Experiences as Reflected in 17th Century Bolivian Folk Songs” and
> now you can’t find an uncaffeinated career.
>
> Worse, those fascist monsters who you took money from based on your
> agreement to pay it back with interest now expect you to pay the
> money back with interest despite the fact that you really don’t
> feel like it anymore.
>
> Well, I have a fresh solution to this crisis.
>
> It’s an innovative strategy that totally and permanently resolves
> this problem in a new and exciting way.
>
> Ready?
>
> Here goes.
> How about you pay your own student debt?
>
> That’s it. It’s as elegant as it is simple. You. Pay. Your. Own.
> Debts.
>
> If you follow this bold, one-step program – the one step is you
> paying your debts – then you will eventually be debt-free. And best
> of all, I won’t have to pay any of your debts.
>
> See, a lot of Democrat politicians are promising “free college,”
> but what they really mean is “free for you.” Someone has to pay,
> and that someone is me, and I need to level with you.
>
> I am not interested in paying for your college.
>
> Now, some may call me “greedy” or “selfish” for not wishing to work
> and then have the money I earned taken from me to provide things to
> you that you want but did not pay for instead of being able to
> spend it – the “it” being the money I earned – on things that I
> want. I am okay with that. I would much prefer having people who
> fundamentally misunderstand the concepts of greed and selfishness
> call me “greedy” and “selfish” than subsidize their educations,
> educations that evidently did not include learning about basic
> concepts like greed and selfishness.
>
> I understand that your priorities for my money may differ from
> mine, but it being my money, my priorities should take precedence.
> Here is a short, partial list of things that I prioritize for my
> money over paying off your student loan debts:
>
> 1. A lease on a sweet German sedan
>
> 2. A delicious tri-tip sandwich
>
> 3. A walk-in humidor
>
> 4. Guns and ammo
>
> 5. A pedicure for my wife
>
> 6. A pedicure for me
>
> 7. A pedicure for my fat corgi Bitey
>
> 8. Literally anything else but your student loan debt
>
> Now, those who support the idea of taking my money to give it to
> someone else so that someone else can have things he, she or xe
> wants rarely put it so bluntly. It’s never, “Well, I want this
> education but I don’t want to do the things necessary to pay for
> it. I want you other people to do the things necessary to pay for
> it.” Instead, it’s always put in some other way that makes them
> taking our money to spend on things they want appear as a favor to
> us, the people expected to do the work.
> ...
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