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Do you support student loan forgiveness?

Do you support student loan forgiveness?

Yes

8

No

13

Yes

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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
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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
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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
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Bostino

use your brain..

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Mac Kinder
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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
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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
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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
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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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Should the U.S. military step up operations in Venezuela or pull back?

Should the U.S. military step up operations in Venezuela or pull back?

Step it up

3

We should stop

1

Step it up

2 Comments
Eric Smith
1
Eric Smith

What the do on their soil, is their business, but once their drugs are out on boats in the big beautiful Gulf of America, blow them out of the water.

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Max
0
Max

We have plenty of drugs as it is.

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We should stop

1 Comment
Toasty
0
Toasty

We're not the world's police and we executed those people in cold blood. If Venezuela wants to kill its citizens without proof and without a trial, then leave the US out of it.

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Max
Max

Venezuela is helping the companies that make Narcan.

What do you think of demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom?

What do you think of demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom?

It doesn't bother me

4

I don't like it

4

It doesn't bother me

4 Comments
Carol Backe
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Carol Backe

I think if it were Obama, nothing would be said about it. I think just because it’s President Trump there is the hate that some have for him. Not this much controversy when all the other changes were done by other presidents. None of this is costing taxpayers as it has in the past.

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Fred
Fred

Please provide an example of such an expansive change ... this ballroom is likely to turn out to be larger than the White House itself! I don't doubt we'll see a TRUMP sign on it before it is finished!

Max
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Max

Trump is improving the White House, and he is using private funding to do that.

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Fred
Fred

Right ... "private funding" in exchange for pardons and other favors. The more accurate description is BRIBES.

Kenneth Young
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Kenneth Young

Separation of the rich and poor is getting wider. I was never invited to watch a movie in the movie room just like I'll never be invited to any dances.....I think we'd be better off if they tore down the west wing

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Eric Smith
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Eric Smith

Big Beautiful White House

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I don't like it

2 Comments
Chris Macy
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Chris Macy

STOP THIS MANIAC!!!

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Kelly Branstetter
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Kelly Branstetter

It's history, it's respect and honor, the ballroom was never approved and the drawings show it overshadowing the White House itself. Awful

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