Joke One:
Gerald Murphy sent me an Easy Sunday story. Gerald is a playwright, composer, and musician. He writes moral plays, skits, stage shows, and musicals for schools, youth, and church groups. He retired in Medford after a long career teaching high school.
My cousin Willy told me he was vehemently opposed to President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. “Hey, when you make a stupid mistake, you have to pay for it.”
He likes to point out that his own personal student loan amounted to less than $1000. “College was a lot cheaper back in the 70’s,” he said, “and I saved even more when I dropped out after one semester. Sure, I missed out on a lot of good jobs because of this, but I wasn’t about to pay good money just to get a good paying job with bennies sometime in the way-out future.”
I congratulated him on his fiscally responsible behavior. “I guess you did the right thing,” I told him. “And could you hold the pickles on my Big Mac?”
Joke Two
Here is another way to look at this. I stumbled upon this story:
A rich guy noticed a rapid leak had developed under his kitchen sink. It was wetting his kitchen floor and dripping down to the floor below. He called a plumber.
The plumber arrived, looked under the sink and said an elbow joint had a crack. He turned off the water at the meter, used a large pipe wrench to loosen two pipes, replaced the elbow joint, and retightened everything. He presented the bill.
"It's $150 for the service call and diagnosis. It's $3 for the new elbow joint. The repair labor is $150. Total: $303."
The homeowner said. "Gimmie a break. It took you six minutes, tops, under the sink for the "repair labor" as you call it. That's $1,500 an hour! That rate is ridiculous. I'm a litigator at a downtown law firm and I bill at $800 an hour."
The plumber answered, "Yeah, that's all I made, too, back when I was a lawyer."
When talking about student loan forgiveness, there is no mention of the obscene interest these students pay. In what other business would this amount of interest be acceptable? It took 10 years for my daughter to pay down her student loan & 10 years for me as her parent to pay my part. DeVoss, the billionaire of student loans & the part played by her & her company to strap the youth with obscene interest amounts on student loans is unforgiveable. We sabotage our own kids from the very beginning.