Letters: Forgive debt for cancer patients, not students. Stop whining
Cancer patients deserve forgiveness not students
Instead of forgiving student loan debt, why not forgive the debt incurred by those going through cancer treatments?
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A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found the average cancer patient has over $10,000 in debts. One in four have declared bankruptcy or have lost their homes to eviction or bankruptcy.
Going to college is a choice, cancer is not.
Michael Bugosh, New Albany
Stop asking for 'handout'
The Biden loan forgiveness program is another example of why people vote for the radical right Republicans who are a cancer in our democracy.
More:Democrat Tim Ryan blasts student loan forgiveness, says it sends 'wrong message'
Stop borrowing huge sums to attend private schools or out-of-state public schools. They could keep the costs down by:
Starting at a community college and transferring to an in-state school;
Living at home and getting a part-time job;
Joining the military, where all costs covered;
Using the GI Bill;
Working for a company that provides tuition assistance;
Being a resident assistant while living on campus and receive free room and board.
More:Amazon expands tuition-free offerings for workers in Ohio
Skip the nonsense that these options don't enable "real college experience" and use these options to get "real-life experience," which is much more valuable. Select a major which has good employment opportunities so that you can pay back your loans.
Rather than asking for a free handout for loan forgiveness, use one of the public service programs to reduce loans:
Teach in less desirable districts;
Provide medical service as a doctor, physician assistant, or nurse in under-served areas;
Just stop whining about your debt and take responsibility for your decisions.
Raymond D'Angelo, Westerville
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Gavarone needs to try honest for a change
Once again, we have a Republican taking a pious stand, when in fact, it is a lie in promotion of voter suppression. Let us begin with a fact reported by the Feb. 3 article, "Possible voter fraud detected in 0.0005% of ballots": 27 of the ballots in question from the 2020 election, and account for 0.0005% of the 5.9 million votes that year.
More:Voter fraud 'exceedingly rare in Ohio,' detected in 0.0005% of 2020 ballots
So voter fraud (some were just honest mistakes) accounted for less than an eye-blink in all the votes cast. Yet Ohio Sen. Theresa Gavarone wants to make it harder for us to vote under the guise of “… ensuring confidence in our elections.” If someone wanted to cheat, they would get to a ballot box wherever it is.
More:Ohio would require photo ID for voters, provide free state IDs under new legislation
But by severely limiting the locations, she is willingly making it harder for low-income or handicapped or other folks with transportation difficulties to drop off their ballots.
She also wants to criminalize the collection of absentee ballots. This means you can’t pick up the ballot from your grandmother and take it to the ballot box. No, Grandma has to do it herself to keep you out of jail, no matter her frailties.
This is yet another Republican "Big Lie."
Twenty-seven out of 5,900,000, Sen. Gavarone.
Couldn’t you at least be honest about what you and your fellow voter suppressors are trying to do?
Edward Krauss, Grandview Heights
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Letters: People should stop whining about the cost of college.
