News of the weak, more nuggets of wisdom from my community 9/6/22
LETTER: Buying votes with student loans is atrocious
Glenn Jacobs Las Vegas
September 4, 2022 - 9:00 pm
Bill Heard’s Aug. 28 letter echoes my viewpoint concerning relief of student debt. I incurred my student debt before I enlisted in the Air Force during Vietnam. I repaid every penny of my student loan while receiving very, very minimal income ($288 per month during my second year of service). I accepted the responsibility that I agreed to and made my monthly payments until my student loan was repaid.
Now, advance to modern day America and the Buy-a-Vote party. They care nothing about responsibility or rationality. Anything to get re=elected. They will give money to anybody to buy a vote. If you succumb to this seductive redistribution of our tax money, you are just as deplorable as they are.
Why is it so hard for people to accept responsibility for their actions?
LETTER: Joe Biden, student loans and goat yoga
J.J. Schrader Henderson
September 5, 2022 - 9:00 pm
President Joe Biden has waved his magic wand and decided to forgive $300 billion (or $500 billion, even his own people can’t figure out the real cost) worth of loans for college students. And right before the mid-term elections. What a coincidence! The estimated costs per taxpayer is somewhere north of $2,000 for each and every one of us.
I couldn’t help but notice the Aug. 25 Review-Journal article on page 1A outlining this story. Turning the page to 3A, I saw a photo of laughing University of Tennessee students engaged in a “goat yoga class.” Can someone tell me which of these students gets my $2,000 to help relieve the “burden” of their education costs?