Student Loans

Yesterday, I received a text, supposedly from a student of my alma mater, requesting a donation. Here was my response: Hi [student's name], if you're a real student instead of a text bot. Your timing is amazing. Our family is big into supporting colleges. My father died when I was 6 years old, leaving my mother to raise 3 children on her own. Between her hard work and our own, we managed to get all 3 of us through college with no debt - 2 of us through CSU. I also helped pay my wife's way through college - also at CSU. Then we started college funds for each of our 3 children when each was born, using the unified gift trust to minors program. Then the government changed rules making it nearly impossible for kids whose families saved up to help them through college with such programs to get any grants or scholarships. But, we redoubled our efforts, and in the time of the most massive increases in the cost of higher education, we managed to get our 3 through with no debt. One through the military, and the other two with the college funds we'd set up and by reducing our mortgage payments. Next, my wife and I set up my Roth IRA to be a trust fund to help our grandchildren pay for whatever advanced education they choose - whether that be college, trade school, vocational school, internship - as long as it is investing in their own future. So, we have essentially helped three generations of our own family to invest in their future - and we've done so at some sacrifice (a love sacrifice, to be sure). Now, our worthless president wants to give in to the far left and forgive all the college debt of those who did not work so diligently to get themselves and/or their family members through college. If that happens, my family will have to pick up the bill for all those students that used their college loans to party and buy new cars (yes, I've known many students with student loans). So, I'm inclined to say that we've paid our share to advance higher education. Here's an idea, go to all those people having their loans forgiven and ask them to use some of that windfall profits to help. They'll be the only ones with any money - well, as long as they vote the right way.