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badgenome on 24 October 2011
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richardhutnik said:
badgenome said:
richardhutnik said:
Go ahead, spread the meme the Occupy movements are "Obamavilles" and be done with it. Maybe you wouldn't want to do that, because that would then make Mitt Romney or Herman Cain (at this point) FDR. If it is Cain, then his 9-0-9 plan would end up being a New Deal. Maybe he could start World War III and the roaches who look back at human history could then find economic books and attribute the restart of civilization with roaches as a great economic stimulant.

It's tempting, but I can't stoop to pretending that these are modern day Hoovervilles if only because that would mean validating these miscreants' romantic notions that they are the poor and downtrodden when in reality they're largely just economic illiterates who are frustrated by their inability to parlay a master's degree in self-absorbed navel-gazing into wealth beyond measure.

Do you think loans would be given out in "self-absored navel-gazing" if those getting such said degrees would be able to file bankruptcy and get out of them, when they couldn't a job?  Individual stupidity doesn't turn into a debt level exceeding that of credit cards, unless enabled.

As I understand it, it's quite difficult to get out of paying back student loans. If you try to default, you're looking at anything from wage garnishment to the IRS keeping your tax refunds to having your federal benefits withheld, unless you can convince the bankruptcy court that you would be living in absolute squalor.

That there is a higher education bubble (created, as always, by the feddle gubmit) would seem to be beyond the purposes of this conversation, however. Just because your government is stupid and your peers are stupid doesn't mean that you also have to be stupid. I mean, shit. Is this really the argument you want to make? Having so many options and opportunities in life that you choose to do the wrong things does not make you in any meaningful sense a victim, and if some cunt with a sociology degree finds out after the fact that his degree is basically worthless, I'll be fucked if I'm going to feel sorry for him. Instead of going to college just because "it's time to go" or because you want to extend your adolescence, go because you want to learn something useful. Otherwise, don't.