pmoney25;946113 wrote:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45040659/ns/us_news-life/
I cannot wait for this thing to end honestly. I appreicate the effort in trying to end Corporate Bail Outs and Crooked politicians but if these are the kind of ideas that are seriously being discussed then the 99% can GTFO
Also if you are complaining about being $60,000 in debt or higher, Go to a State School. Go to a community college for a couple years then finish out. Not really that difficult. If I had to do it over again, I would have went to the Regional OSU branch in mansfield for my first two years then went to OSU to finish out my last two.
Not to mention just because you have a degree doesn't mean you should be guaranteed a job. If you suck at interviewing or do not have the required skills necessary why should a company hire you over someone who does have the skills necessary to do the job.
I can understand (sort of) college age students who don't get it. But the NYU professor is a real gem:
At a gathering last week in a public atrium a few blocks from the square that is home to the Occupy Wall Street encampment, New York University professor Andrew Ross led a discussion about the burden of student loan debt — now estimated to be between $550 billion and $829 billion — and proposed a radical solution: “A Pledge of Refusal.” The idea is that protesters would sign a pledge to stop making payments on their student loans as soon as 1 million had joined in making the pledge.
Ross told the crowd of about 50 people — ranging from current students to long-ago graduates — that while individuals are subject to heavy financial penalties if they stop paying on their student loans, a mass action by 1 million would make the banks take notice.
“There is a lot of talk about student debt, but no one takes any action, and that’s what Occupy Wall Street is about,” the professor of social and cultural analysis said.
'It's just immoral'
Ross acknowledged the irony of protesting against one of the main sources of his salary but added, “I feel very bad that my salary has actually been financed (by these debts). … To me it is just heartbreaking to see my students carry so much debt. It’s just immoral.”
What's heartbreaking is people with fully functioning brain cells thinking they can enter into a contract with someone (i.e. banks) and then feel free to violate that contract any time they please. Professor Idiot needs to be reminded that both those who loan money as well as those who accept loans (and voluntarily agree to the terms of the loan) have rights under the law.
I Wear Pants;946193 wrote:Nice try to turn it into a "herp derp liberal media" thing, the media has been calling the OWS folks crazy, confused, etc.
How about Congress' response to both the Tea Party and OWS? If you like, we can list about a dozen quotes from Congressional Black Caucus members (along with the VP, Democrat party leaders, etc.) saying outrageous things about the Tea Party. I recall no such venom from Republican leaders directed toward OWS protestors.
fucking kidding me? The Republicans have been saying tons of shit about OWS.
