Are We An Extended Family?
It is natural to hate people whom you believe have been given more than they deserve. I will be the first to admit that I take comfort in the fact that my loans at least shield me from the stigma that my achievements must be due to Affirmative Action. I get to join the student loan club, a race neutral organization and it endears me to my own people who associate a large part of their identity with struggle. Lonely indeed are the members of the darker nation who know no indebtedness for they are almost universally despised. And that’s a shame.
Recently I received a number of posted and unposted comments from medical types who are getting their tuition bill footed by the family. One of them, rather than being overly defensive simply wrote that it was done for him so that he could do it for his own kids one day and that there was no sense in paying all of that exorbitant interest. I found that to be an interesting notion. Are we as Americans an extended family?
Again let me reiterate I am not commiting the same crime as I described earlier. I do not want to be in the shoes of a number 1 or number 2 doctor. I strongly suspect they have loans of their own to pay either in who they marry, what they study or where they live OR struggle with feelings of inadequacy.
But if we as Americans are an extended family…shouldn’t we send each other to college? Finance is the great medical fallback and I seem to recall a financial instrument called a bond. If the Federal Government can sell bonds for war why not for ultra low interest rate student loans? As a politically neutral person I see no reason why private non-profits are any better or worse equiped to do this… It’s just a question of efficiency versus scale.
Ebeneezer Scrooge validated himself by growing up poor and making his own way in the world (or so Scrooge McDuck’s portrayal of him leads me to believe). I don’t want to be guilty of not lowering a rope just because I had to climb the wall free-style. I know Benito is laboring over his third draft of a letter to Brittany Spears asking for debt relief and seed money for a scholarship fund… But maybe there is a more dignified, longterm solution to this problem. I’d end the post with some classic Brittany Spears lyrics but I get those confused with early Christina Aguilera. Point is we don’t need a genie in a bottle we just need to decide if we’re really family.
I don’t see the rest of the country as my extended family. While I want to help people in need, there are also a lot of people out there who make me ashamed to even be in the same species. For example: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/dining/03rabbit.html?hpw
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