Degree Selection On the surface, I admit that the selection of degree should not have an impact on one’s ability to pay back one’s student loan, but it most decidedly does. There was a saying that it did not...
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The “Loan Wolves” Expose It was suggested that I watch the NBC expose on the Student Loan debacle in the last quarter of the century called the “Loan Wolves”. I did, a couple of times. It is a...
PERSONAL BIAS I, like everyone else, cannot go into any conversation without some form of personal bias. That is true in this case as well. Let me explain. I graduated high school in 1969. I wanted to go to college more...
Many years ago, the Summer of 1975 to be exact, I was drinking in the Cardinal Room of the Richelieu Hotel in San Francisco, as was my practice at that time. I was imbibing with a businessman whom I had shared many a drink...
I am 70 years old. When I was growing up on the west coast of the United States in the 1950’s and 1960’s there was only one kind of rice and it was called, strangely enough, RICE. If you were served rice, if you...
Note: the nexus of this write-up is based upon a speech by Barack Obama who touched on some of the same issues that I am writing about. As he was living and facing some of the problems written about it was obvious that he...
I recently posted a comment on Facebook something of a rant about some Bernie Bro’s. (For the uninitiated, I borrowed the term Bernie Bro’s from Hillary Clinton to describe the fanatical backers of Bernie Sanders who...
I have been posting on this web site for over three years now. For the first three years I received little or no activity on the site; a couple of subscribers and a couple of comments. And by a couple, I mean one or two...
The following email sent to my state representative (with a comparable one to my state senator, who only voted in favor of the Idaho Stop law): For the initiated, Oregon implemented 1) a law allowing bicycles to run stop signs...
First of all, I am still opposed to the concept of Medicare for All. We can all see that it is a poor man’s attempt at socialized medicine without actually giving it that name, without eliminating the insurance company...