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I guess I should unpack my statement a little more. We don't live in a perfect world. If we did, we'd all be debt free dicking around in a hot tub all day. But, we aren't. Realistically speaking, with the workload and pay of a typical ER nurse, I don't believe they should have to incur the amount of debt many of them do. The decision to actually do so and commit to that debt would be a different ball game. Something as necessary as ER staff sits different with me IMO. Obviously there's gonna be some personal expense of an education. If it were up to me it'd be much, much less. But I'm a electronics technician turd so I suppose it ain't my problem.

However I would agree, as I said in bold, I wouldn't make rash financial decisions before jumping into that career path.

It depends,

I went to school for Mechanical Engineering and my wife Nursing. Each had less than $15k for 4 years of schooling. I think that’s quite acceptable for both our positions.

They can choose cheaper school options and work in school so that they do not have any debt.

Also the reality is if it get’s bad enough hospitals/etc will figure out ways to incentivize students to go into nursing.
 
I guess I should unpack my statement a little more. We don't live in a perfect world. If we did, we'd all be debt free dicking around in a hot tub all day. But, we aren't. Realistically speaking, with the workload and pay of a typical ER nurse, I don't believe they should have to incur the amount of debt many of them do. The decision to actually do so and commit to that debt would be a different ball game. Something as necessary as ER staff sits different with me IMO. Obviously there's gonna be some personal expense of an education. If it were up to me it'd be much, much less. But I'm a electronics technician turd so I suppose it ain't my problem.

However I would agree, as I said in bold, I wouldn't make rash financial decisions before jumping into that career path.

My wife rose from a pediatric trauma nurse to CNO of a 6 hospital system in 24 years. She just read this.... shook her head and waked away....

Tax money is taken from people who earned it. NO ONE has a right to the work product of another. There's a word for that. What you just said is that. Taking from someone else to support another hidden in the guise of an "essential" role in society.

If you want to change what you wrote about, I think you start with the other end of that timeline... and ask yourself why college tuition has risen at nearly 8X inflation for 35 years. You'll find a very interesting reason for that on the other end if you understand free markets.

If you want to know why the healthcare system is experiencing worker shortages your study on that just needs to go back a little over 4 years.
 
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The government needs to stop guranteeing student loans. Then banks wouldn't loan to shit degrees and colleges wouldn't inflate prices and build new buildings.

And the government wouldn't forgive shit because they wouldn't be involved. Parent's would be on the hook for cosigning.

In summary, if .gov is involved it turns to shit.

P.S. shit

Meddling in a market ends poorly. The "Everyone should have a house" hysteria of the Clinton years ended in wiping out the wealth of millions and empowering the "to big to fails" to essentially grab the remaining wealth.

The "loan" roulette wheel is about to stop on 00 for student debt, personal debt and car debt and take everyone for a ride again. That's before we even get to the $35T in federal debt and another $140T of under funded obligations over the next 40 years. Sure.... let's add certain people to a list to get some stuff for free because of what they do... what could go wrong?

A bank, at risk of losing money, wouldn't give a loan to anyone who they believe couldn't pay it back. Shit degrees have nothing to do with it. If there are shit jobs for those shit degrees you can get paid back. What would happen is that college prices would fall significantly and only students that are at the top of the top academically would get loans. As demand falls for higher priced education costs would decrease and more and more wouldn't need loans.

An outdated idea is in play here. Merit.
 
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So.... what they say here is true. It's also true with the system we have now. Who's uses cash for their necessities? Who uses it to buy gas, or food, or clothes, medicine and so on? Very, very few do. Almost no place takes cash any longer.

The entire system is based on electronic transactions that use virtual dollars now. If you don't think they can turn that off in an afternoon you don't understand how that system is connected to the US government and haven't been watching .

 
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To the posts above on the medical profession and cost of college.... here's the flip side of that... Are you against unqualified or under educated physicians... or just their loans?

 
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