2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton Offers Student Debt Deferral to Those Who Need it Most: Startup-Launching Americans
Well this is certainly better than offering free public schooling or doing something tangible about student loan debt.
http://gawker.com/hillary-clinton-offers-student-debt-deferral-to-those-w-1782748041
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)Maybe an app that tracks the student debt of everyone not lucky enough to have the friends and family network to raise capital for a startup.
Bad Thoughts
(2,514 posts)The people whom we need more of.
Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)They might have a voice. Until then, might I suggest they get involved in a startup?
Bad Thoughts
(2,514 posts)We don't need more of those.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)I've long thought that such professions need subsidies to encourage people to educate themselves for careers in those and other areas. Perhaps that's something to work toward more diligently.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)which is more valuable than debt deferral.
jcgoldie
(11,584 posts)imply that one is a "technocrat"?
Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)It was specifically geared toward the Silicon Valley tech sector.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)Most people who start their own businesses aren't wealthy.
more than 80% of funding for new businesses comes from personal savings and friends and family
jcgoldie
(11,584 posts)...also doesn't mean one is wealthy.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Do you have any idea how few people can get 30K from family?
Some of us had to work as kids to support our younger siblings instead.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)exist inside the bubble.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)already starting to deflate. This election may well be the neoliberals last hurrah.
jcgoldie
(11,584 posts)Saying anyone who scrapes and saves some money to start a small business in the USA is in some kind elitist bubble is just damned stupid.
peace13
(11,076 posts)Set up a universal plan.
HassleCat
(6,409 posts)As in loophole wide enough to drive a truck through it? Why would we even consider this? Now every kid with a laptop will be doing a startup for the loan deferral. Oh, well. It's just a deferral, so about all is does is allow students to dig themselves in deeper. I hope this plan goes nowhere, or at least gets modified along the way. Some good ideas begin as bad ideas. We'll see about this one.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)Are people thinking it's her entire plan to help solve the student loan crises? Anyway, I like this graphic
Matt_in_STL
(1,446 posts)ismnotwasm
(41,921 posts)Damn. It came from here
http://www.studentdebtrelief.us/news/hillary-clinton-vs-donald-trump-on-student-loans/
Maybe I should drop them a line...
AntiBank
(1,339 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Response to Matt_in_STL (Original post)
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demwing
(16,916 posts)Last edited Wed Jun 29, 2016, 08:36 PM - Edit history (1)
because I'm not