i did learn navy 5768 is an idiot

The truth is that you are an ignoramus.

She was also president of Mayland College.What was she telling those students? Was she telling THEM not to take loans?

BTW, what's the long term graduation rate for Mayland?

But keep her idiocy in perspective - she voted against disaster aid for Katrina - Given that NC is in the path of most hurricanes, not a long term thinker here.

Sorry, the first sentence should read: Since 1994 my wife, who borrowed 30K for her bachelors and masters degrees in education, has had just under 50K garnished from her wages (as a school teacher and church youth director) because of her defaulted loans with Sallie Mae.

Speaking of Ayn Rand, did you know that she was a hypocrite? She was so against anyone holding out their hand for help - but when it came to her old age she had a hand out indeed. she received government help. Check it out sometime.

I paid for my own college too. Tuition was about $30 per semester hour in 1976, or about $1000 per year, and my master's degree in 1981 was about $2000 over a year and a half. I lived at home and commuted about 15 miles, and gas was 30 cents a gallon (well, at least until the oil embargo of 1979 during my 3rd year). I got my master's degree with about $1000 in debt to my father (not counting the room and board and gasoline, but I also worked on the farm in my "spare" time) and my VW bus leaking about a quart of oil every 100 miles.

Without state support for the university I went to, I probably couldn't have afforded college. Multiple generations before us ponied up the tax money and land grants to keep education affordable. Foxx is just another of those conservatives who used the system to get what they needed, and don't want to pay their fair share for the next generation. "I got mine, now we don't need to pay for it anymore"

Although she looks a little older than me, we're lumped together as the baby boomer generation. I don't like what she and fellow conservatives have become and hate to be associated with them. What should we call them? Maybe the "George Bush Entitlement" generation? No other group in history has erased so many protections for so many people in such a short time.

Thankful for my student loans and Pell grants which helped going to college then veterinary school in the early 80's. I worked over full time from the first day of summer to the last, then graded papers while at school as well as weekends. I could not now afford to go to veterinary school with the price that the new crop of veterinarians is saddled with- like $40,000 a year. This is the state's and government's fault that money has been taken away from grants and subsidies so the schools and put that load on the shoulders of kids. We will soon become a society where only the rich can go to higher education. I doubt very much that Mrs. Foxx really understands how much MORE school cost than back in the dark ages...I'm sure it would probably take her twice as long and she'd end up with debt in the end. Get a clue, Foxx!

my father died my senior year in high school i went to work help support younger brother and sister and got my degree loan what loan ? the major difference is that the potus when i went to school was not trying to destroy USA Exceptionalism

A BA at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in the mid 70s cost me about 6,000 and change with books etc. I lived at home some of the time and worked all of the time. I could pay that old rate off in a year or less - the whole thing. Now, if I were to get what they are getting then I would be getting paid about 65 dollars an hour because the tuition in the 1970s was about 35/credit hour and is now about 360/credit hour now -- ten times as much. The Representative is utterly inept, artless and just plain clueless. Or she is a damned liar.

I attended college about the same time that Foxx did. My tuition was $229.00 per semester. That was a struggle because it was almost a month of pay if I worked full time. My grandchildren will not be able to attend for anywhere near that percentage of yearly income..I would suggest, based on her vociferously voiced lack of knowledge on many subjects, that her education was a waste of time

My spouse began college at age 20, as a single (divorced) parent with two toddlers and worked her way through a B.S. and a year of graduate school. She then took out a student loan to achieve her master's. Her entire career was spent in the non-profit sector, which resulted in lower pay than teachers or even unskilled labor. That loan has more than doubled in principle owed. Ironically, her father, a WWII veteran who committed suicide (shell shock, a.k.a. PTSD) when she was a child, and had she known, the Veterans Administration would have provided educational benefits to which she'd not need to borrow money in the first place. Now in her 60s, there is no way that either of us can pay off this loan, but the Dept. of Education has no provisions to take this into consideration. All payments go towards interest and not principle. Ridiculous and heartless.

When she went to school, tuition at the California State College system was free and at the University of California was much much cheaper than today. Republicans always have very little tolerance for anything that assists the middle or poorer classes. It is just the party of the rich and I have very little tolerance for any of them.

Not only that, but when I went to college & grad school in the late 70's students loans were offered at 2%, with deferred payment until 10 months after graduation. This fall my daughter starts college. We were "offered" students loans at 7.9% interest, accruing interest immediately upon disbursement, with no deferment - we'd have to start making payments immediately. They call this "financial aid" - what a joke! We can get a better rate at our local credit union at 4%. Our government is the handmaiden of the financial industry. This sad decline in education all started with Reagan. Rep. Foxx needs to wake up and inform herself about how times have changed!

Many of us who grew up in the same era as Rep Foxx were able to work enough to pay for our college, even private college, educations. The price of college was much more in line than it is today. I worked full time during the summer and part time during the school year. Tuition, fees, books, room and board totaled about what I made. Actually, when I graduated I was able to take a teaching job that paid more than the cost of one year's college costs. That doesn't happen now. We know that as our children have not been as fortunate as we.

Wow, is she out of touch!College tuitions are higher now than they were back in the ancient days of Foxx's youth. Plus, federal grants and aid for students has dwindled. Meanwhile purchasing power for those in entry-level jobs has plummeted, resulting in the exponential growth of college expenses. My father put himself through Cal Berkeley working part time at a grocery store, living in the Haight Ashbury. Nowadays, not even managers of grocery stores can afford that. A friend of mine spent $4500 on tuition and books to get through med school. No loans. Nowadays that sum is more like $250,000.

Hmmm... Does she think students in medical, dental, law or nursing, or similar schools are supposed to work part time. These schools are phenomenally expensive even at the state level, very few federal loans are available, and most new graduates are saddled with huge amounts of debt and most cannot make enough to pay them back easily. This is one reason physicians have been fleeing primary care, you literally cannot make enough to pay back the med school debts which easily exceed $ 500, 000 plus high interest. This is a common problem nowadays. When I was in school we were expected to be in class, studying, or on call 24 /7. This lady is so out of touch.

Why should student loan rates be higher than the rates big banks pay the Fed?

Like zero, for example?

With the cost of college tuition rising drastically, things are different than when Rep. Foxx went to college. I am disabled and could not help my kids attend college. They both took student loans and graduated (one with a masters). They are paying back these loans which are extremely high. I have VERY LITTLE tolerance for Rep. Foxx!