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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is he paying off all the credit card debt of the parents that didn't take out loans, but are going into debt helping their kids?

Is he paying back those that didn't get a new house, but saved up money for college instead?

This is just another person helping out people that chose not to help themselves.  Go pay off the community college kids debt while they work and go to school.  
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Agree! Nice gesture, but once again the families and kids that didn’t prepare financially, but still chose a 4yr college with debt are the winners.  :roll: [/quote]

Exactly

That's why I said it would be more fair to just give every student the same amount. Take the cost of paying off all the debt, divide it by the number of students, and give that to them

Debt isn't a perfect measure of poverty or need. There were lots of kids there with lower debt because they transferred in from a cheaper college or worked summer jobs or had their parents deplete their savings and go into debt for them.[/quote]

You know what?  Life isn't fair.  Those who do the best are not just hard workers; they are the hard workers who had the opportunities at the right time.  Robert Smith cannot help everyone, but he chose the graduating class of 2019 at Morehouse College as the ones that he was going to help this time.  He is donating $40M and there are some 400 students that did get a helping hand from his gesture.  He made a wonderful gesture and he should be applauded for that.

Nickpicking how and what he did just because it wasn't the way you would have done it is the type of attitude that would make some people just not bother trying to be generous in the future.  So, rather than criticizing how he did it, why don't you go and donate $10M of money to help those other students and we can sit here and criticize you for how you chose to do it, who you chose to benefit and so on.

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"Life isn't fair" is the dumbest rationale to explain why kids who choose debt and a 4 year college degree should be rewarded, over others who had to drop out and go PT to community college and get a job to pay for it.  [/quote]

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