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Do you support student loan forgiveness?

Do you support student loan forgiveness?

Yes

8

No

13

Yes

4 Comments
Joseph Edward Trueblood
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Joseph Edward Trueblood

We were 17-18 years old, and every single adult in power over us told us to go to college, get these loans to pay for it. Now we're in so much debt we can't afford to start families, buy homes, everything the other generations took for granted. Now we're "entitled" for complaining about it.

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Jeanette Johnson
Jeanette Johnson

govt bailed out all the banks and car makers why the heck not

Felisha
Felisha

My parents were able to own property because it was attainable to do so; just like college was way more affordable. We aren't entitled we are just rattled with debt and can't get out from under student loans.

Jamie McAtee
Jamie McAtee

So do you have regrets about going to college, regrets about what college you chose to go to ($$$$), or regrets that you now have to repay your debts like all of the rest of us for our schooling?

Courtney Lucas
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Courtney Lucas

If we send these kids out into the world thousands of dollars in debt, we are setting them up for failure. If we punish them for educating themselves this is why we have such a huge poverty level.

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Christopher Watson
Christopher Watson

None of the people living in the Projects or low income housing got there because they went to College, Keep it real.

Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

I won't let their foolishness, or your foolishness drive me into poverty. We are not a communist country, nor are we going to be.

Jeffery Schuyler
0
Jeffery Schuyler

Banks and billionaires got loan forgiveness and bailouts. That students don't get relief from predatory and outrageously overpriced tuition is obscene.

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Tammy Shannon
0
Tammy Shannon

Kids at this age are so young to make these decisions and college is so expensive these days. By the time they graduate they have $50,000+ in debt and are just getting started in their employment and all ready overwhelmed in debt.

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No

8 Comments
Larry Ewart
1
Larry Ewart

You borrow money , you pay it back. Simple

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Bostino
1
Bostino

use your brain..

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Mac Kinder
1
Mac Kinder

Creates more entitlement and irresponsibility

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Abby Normal
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Abby Normal

If you are mature enough to take out a loan, then you should be mature enough to pay it back. Nobody made you take out a loan. If your field of study/ preferred career doesn't pay enough to support you and pay back your loans, then you chose poorly. You've just learned personal responsibility.

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Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

Felisha chose a profession that pays nothing, and blames others. LOL

Felisha
Felisha

So because I chose social work as a career and spend 50 to 60 hours a week doing so, I should find a different career? Wait until you need a socialworker. I'm not saying I shouldn't pay loans back but there should be some Incentive working for our communities and our residents.

Christopher Watson
1
Christopher Watson

I have never asked anyone else to pay my bills, they should of had their priorities straight to begin with. 1, degree, 2. Career, 3. Pay off bills, 4. buy a new car, 5. Then you're ready for a relationship/marriage/and a house.

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Terre Chambers
1
Terre Chambers

Absolutely not. Let them pay their own bills like the rest of us have.. They have already been given too much with no payments for three years. Make them pay

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Randy Burson
1
Randy Burson

I'm sick & tired of people with their entitlement attitude. I took out a student loan, I paid it off. If you took out a student loan, you pay it off.

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Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

NO, Joseph Edward Trueblood. You are too irresponsible to start a family, and buy a home. Student loans won't buy common sense.

Joseph Edward Trueblood
Joseph Edward Trueblood

We were 17-18 years old, and every single adult in power over us told us to go to college, get these loans to pay for it. Now we're in so much debt we can't afford to start families, buy homes, everything the other generations took for granted. Now we're "entitled" for complaining about it.

Max DeYoung
1
Max DeYoung

If you sign a contract, you fulfill the contract.

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Do you support dismantling the Department of Education?

Do you support dismantling the Department of Education?

Yes

9

No

1

Yes

6 Comments
Eric Smith
3
Eric Smith

The Marxists have essentially taken over this federal organization and it has been filtered down into the public schools over the past 50 years. Destroy it and start over.

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Steve Baumann
2
Steve Baumann

The quality of education has dropped when we should be at or near the top. Somehow the department lost track of who the customers are. The students and the parents. People need to understand, this is not the elimination of the department, it is the right sizing of it.

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Cindy L. Robinson
2
Cindy L. Robinson

we need to get back to reading, writing, math, shop, Home Economics and our United States History

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Max DeYoung
1
Max DeYoung

After $3 trillion dollars spent on the DOE since 1979, test scores, reading rates, and global education rankings have dropped significantly. There are better ways to help the states educate their children.

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Toasty
1
Toasty

Teacher's unions, bureaucracy, federal regulations have failed our kids. Give the power (and money) back to the schools and let teachers do what they do best, teach. No more common core nonsense, DEI, and lets start with reading. Reading, writing, arithmetic, the rest will figure itself out.

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David Dean
1
David Dean

The DoE has no mandate in the constitution. Education policy should be determined and enforced at the local level as the founders intended.

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No

1 Comment
Glenda Bono
0
Glenda Bono

Our special needs children need a federal department of education to oversee that the states educates them appropriately.

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Zaos Gonzolez
Zaos Gonzolez

How about you educate your only child Karen. Absolving your responsibility is what the government wants you to do.

Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

After $3 trillion dollars spent on the DOE since 1979, test scores, reading rates, and global education rankings have dropped significantly.

Steve Baumann
Steve Baumann

Trump understands that. Anyone saying otherwise is not being truthful. MAGA supports all of those that truly need help. Too many have taken advantage of the system, and been allowed to do so. Soon, those worthy of need shall have more of it.

Will Mizzou win its first-round NCAA Tournament game against Drake?

Will Mizzou win its first-round NCAA Tournament game against Drake?

Yes

2

No

0

Yes

1 Comments
Max DeYoung
0
Max DeYoung

Missouri might make it to the Sweet Sixteen. I am hoping.

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Max DeYoung
Max DeYoung

I guess they won't.

No

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