re: Meet a single dad with $550,000 in student loans for his 5 children

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partially those kids fault for allowing their dad to do that!

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They probably thought it was the norm. The dad, lolol...

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No, and his kids seem like entitled a-holes for taking him up on it.


yup

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I wanted to get off the teat as soon as possible t


same here

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This Dad is a moron.

When I started undegrad, my Dad helped me pack up my stuff, shook my hand and said, "good luck". That was it. No money, no nothing. I hated him for it at the time but he imparted the most valuable lesson in life I've ever recieved. For 5 years I worked 30-40 hours every week and attended school. Then I'd work 60-70 hours a week during the summers. I took out no student loans in those 5 years.

My Dad also wouldn't let me work at his business either. He'd always say, "Son, you need to go out and get your own damn job." Another valuable lesson.

I'm the most most miserly SOB you'll ever meet. But I damn sure know the value of money.

The 4 girls will either be housewives or have useless degrees and work at Starbucks. Dad gonna be broke the rest of his life

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Would you do the same for your kids?

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I’m sorry but no. Go to a state college and work part time to help pay for it. If you can’t afford it you can’t afford it.

Don't do that with fed loans, you have to be totally and permanently disabled or DEAD to discharge those things.

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Wow.. lucky to feed, clothes and etc...why did you have kids in the first place if that is how you feel?

I get not being able to pay for autos or college but telling one your children, whom you and your spouse decided to bring into this world they're lucky they were feed must make them feel loved.

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Dude..... What an idiot you are. I am the greatest dad and papa on planet earth just ask any of them. Apparently you don't or can t understand sarcasm. This guy here "spacewrangler" is why every fricking kid feels entitlement in America! I raised hard working kids you filthy animal! I raised real down to earth hard working kids.... They are all successful! Hows yours doing punk?

Send their arse to community college or tell them to pay for their own school and help here and there. That is just insane lol

I was totally prepared to go 6 figures into debt for my oldest daughter's education. Fortunately, after a semester or two it bugged her that she was accepting help from a backward right-wing shitlord, so she found other sources of funding.

I wasn't even giving her a hard time about shite. It was just the concept of it I guess. I was probably the same way; I didn't take jack from my folks after 18.

So much for the inequities of white privilege. He should have sent his kids to HBCU Morehouse College and had a lack billionaire pay off all those student loans.

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Bingo. Since when did it just become a birth right to go to some expensive or out of state school, and get your own bedroom and bathroom and live like a king or queen? I lived in the dorms two years, ad then my buddies and I shared bedrooms until we graduated, and I went to a state school (it was a great one in UW, but still).

I bet these kids don't work at school either, so they can "get the full college experience".

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Its so different at AU these days (my undergrad). I lived in a place affectionately called Mac's Butt Palace that was $75 per month. It was the top floor of a house that was a block from campus. A 4br/1ba with a shitty kitchen. I parked my Ranger on hills for an entire school year to clutch start because I didn't want to outlay the cash to replace the solenoid. Now there are so many german cars at AU and the U that its baffling. One of my consistient jobs while in school was working in the produce department of a grocery store. You can pull stuff and take that stuff home.

Believe it or not those are some great memeories trying to McGyver my way through school.