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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote[u]]I don't hate people who have student loans, but I do think they should repay them. [/u]That's a very, very large sum of money and I didn't need to take a loan out in that amount to go to school. I got a degree and went to a school I could afford. I also make a good salary and have not relied on the American taxpayer to foot my college tuition.[/quote]

x100.

And merely working for the feds doesn't quite cut it.   Being the sole doctor on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the poorest county in the US?  sure.  Ditto for being the only public defender somewhere in the Mississippi Delta who helps indigent folks who are in jail, for years on end.

But, forgiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans [i]per person[/i]  because that guy is a GS-14 lawyer telecommuting from Herndon for the HHS?  Working 8:45 to 4:30? Really?!

Who can I call about this.[/quote]

I totally agree...why are we paying for this?[/quote]

Agree 100%.  As a taxpayer this shocks me.  I'm a fed attorney who graduated in the mid-late 2000s and am close to done paying my moderate student loans by MYSELF.  Why should someone who chose to go to a better-ranked, more expensive school get the career benefit of a prestigious degree, and get the taxpayer to foot the bill??[/quote]

Because programs like that enable the federal government to attract and retain top tier talent to do legal work that helps the government run smoothly, thereby benefiting taxpayers.  These are people who might otherwise feel compelled to go biglaw in order to pay down the debt.  The difference in starting salary between the federal government and biglaw is huge--think 100K per year in some cases.

Signed, someone who has never worked for the feds and will pay off every penny of her own huge student loan balance, but does not begrudge others the benefits of these federal government programs.[/quote]

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