Sunday, June 14, 2015

Media Double Standard Alert

New York Times Encourages Student Loan Defaults, But Darkly Questions Rubio's Finances

By Melissa Mullins, Jun. 13, 2015, Newsbusters

I am almost certain there are people in this country who want to ensure an entitlement generation. I find Lee Siegel to be one of these people.

Last weekend, Siegel wrote an op-ed in the New York Times titled “Why I Defaulted on My Student Loans.” In the piece, he whined about the debt he owed and made excuses for why he couldn’t or WOULDN’T pay off his student loan. He complained that when he and his mother took out his first student loan, he was congratulated “as if I had just won some kind of award rather than signed away my young life.”

Mr. Siegel should’ve considered himself so lucky to even go to college – and that loan allowed him to do just that. He whined when his mother took out a second loan for him, his father declared bankruptcy and his parents divorced, leaving him to transfer from a private college to a state college in New Jersey. *gasp* God forbid! He writes:

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