Student loans
What President Biden should do is lower the interest rates on college loans to 1% or 2% instead of the extreme high rates that are being charged now. Some are as high as 10%. That would save thousands of dollars over the loan repayment. Then lower the salaries in some of these colleges where a president of the college can make $1M per year. Even the president of this country does not make that much for a salary. Lowering costs will lower the tuition rates now being charged. A state college now with room and board etc. is almost $40,000 per year. That is a disgrace and charging almost $95,000 in private colleges is worst.
Dotty Fahey
Milton
Warren & Gaza
Sen. Elizabeth Warren should be ashamed of herself for joining the disinformation campaign that has surrounded the Gaza war since its inception. The facts are quite clear: The Hamas Charter states the organization’s purpose is pursuing genocide. Its strategy is to hide behind human shields at several levels:
First, by constructing a labyrinth of tunnels and storage facilities for its weapons and terrorists with access points in apartment buildings, schools, mosques, and especially hospitals. Tunnels aren’t visible from the surface, which means attacks on them may appear to be directed at other structures or nothing at all.
Second, by starving its own population in the certainty that “useful idiots” around the world, in journalism and government as well as civilians, will blame Israel. Hamas’s objectives require maximizing the death toll of its activities, because that maximizes the support it gets from those idiots.
Third, by seizing hostages to serve as human shields for Hamas’s heroic leaders. The logic is that Israel is less likely to strike if it might hurt the hostages.
Hamas’s purpose, strategy, and tactics are all in violation of international humanitarian law, but the global community has never tried to hold it accountable, so the violations become ever more egregious.
That American politicians seek to hold Israel accountable for Hamas’s actions is unconscionable and contributes to extending the war and increasing civilian deaths. The best that can be said of them is that they have fallen into a well-laid trap. If they aren’t intelligent enough to recognize this, maybe it’s time for new leaders.
Yale Zussman, PhD
Framingham
Migrants & loans
I’m sick of taxpayer dollars being spent to house and feed illegal immigrants. The daily cost for some is higher than the daily cost of a citizen going on vacation. Soon, taxpayers won’t be able to afford a vacation. Higher taxes and budget cuts are on the menu of taxpayers. Now we hear of Biden’s unconstitutional plan to erase student debt to buy votes. Piling on $500+ billion to the national debt is irresponsible. If you never went to college or paid off a student loan, Biden’s plan is a slap in the face. Increasing taxes and cutting programs is the second course on the menu. It’s hard to swallow.
Donald Houghton
Quincy
