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March 31, 2023

Gen Z Is Overly Optimistic About Student Loans

The accuracy of Gen Z’s expectations are mixed when it comes to college costs.

Knowledge may be power, but it’s also expensive, so expensive that more than a third of Gen Zers expect to carry $50,000 or more in debt for their bachelor’s degree.

A survey of more than 8,000 high school and college-aged students from the scholarship search site Scholarship Owl found that the overwhelming majority expect to carry student loan debt after graduation. However, most underestimate exactly how long it will take them to pay off their education.

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Gen Z is realistic about the cost of higher education: 90% said they expect to owe money when they graduate, and 36% expect to owe a whopping $50,000 or more for a bachelor’s degree.

As for the length of time Gen Zers think they’ll be on lenders’ hooks, most think they’ll pay off their loans within 10 years.

When it comes to the cost of their education, the accuracy of Gen Z’s expectations are mixed. While the majority is correct in assuming that they’ll owe money after graduating, the actual number of graduates with student debt is much lower than 90%.

According to the think tank Urban Institute, 70% of students who receive a bachelor’s degree have education debt when they exit college. It’s not likely that will increase to 90% by the time Scholarship Owl respondents graduate.

There are about 44 million people in the U.S. who currently carry student loan debt, and most of them (92%) have federal loans to pay off.

As for the amount they’ll owe, some of the 36% of Gen Zers who estimate having to pay off at least $50,000 probably won’t have as much debt as they expect. While some undergraduates do borrow that much, it’s far from the norm.

Gen Zers are also underestimating how long they’ll be paying lenders. According to an analysis of government data by financial aid expert Mark Kantrowitz, the average student takes about 16 to 19 years get out from under their debt, not 10.

Gen Zers know they’ll owe money after they graduate, and a significant portion expect they’ll owe quite a bit. But they’re much too optimistic about when they’ll be free from monthly student loan payments, which Scholarship Owls says makes them unprepared for what their financial circumstances will look like in the future.

March 31, 2023 5:12am

March 10, 2023

Say Goodbye To Your Nice Quiet Neighborhoods

The Loony Liberals get their way In Washington State, The House of Representatives passed a bill that would legalize duplexes or fourplexes in almost every neighborhood of every city in Washington, potentially bringing an end to local zoning rules that limit large swaths of cities to only single-family homes with a 75-21 vote, The Weak Kneed Republicans, are just as loony.

House Bill 1110 aims to increase housing supply and density in cities across the state without increasing sprawl. Supporters say that increasing housing supply is critical to easing the housing crisis that has seen home prices and homelessness climb throughout the state.

“Young people are being priced out of the opportunity for a future,” Rep. Jessica Bateman, D-Olympia, the lead sponsor, said. What she really means is, black and brown people.

Opponents argue that zoning and planning decisions are best handled locally, and that the bill would do little to increase the supply of affordable housing and would destroy the nice peaceful neighborhood we have all enjoyed.

The bill, which still must pass the state Senate, would not mean the end of single-family-home construction in Washington, but it could, eventually, mean the end of many neighborhoods made up exclusively of single-family homes.

Gee can’t have that…!!! Must cater to The Immigrunts here to hatch their eggs and take advantage of all of you dumb White People that are apparently, self loathing.

I can now guarantee that these new neighborhoods will see an increase in all crimes, because that is what happens in those neighborhoods consisting mostly of uneducated blacks and browns.

The local City Council are loon followers and will enact, if not already, the same loony policy but have now learned that landlords like me will never be told what to do, who I can rent to, or much I can charge for rent and who I can evict of which has never happened be I prescreen for low lifes.

If they sound like low lifes on the phone, not of privilege, they won’t even get in the door.

March 10, 2023 5:09am

February 24, 2023

Republicans Rightly Challenge No Chase Agenda

Two years ago, Washington lawmakers clamped down on police chasing suspects in their patrol cars, passing a law sharply restricting such pursuits, which have injured and killed bystanders.

Since then, a growing coalition of mayors, business owners and law enforcement leaders has pleaded with lawmakers to ease the restrictions, pointing to a surge in criminal suspects brazenly fleeing police stops.

A bipartisan bill to allow police more discretion on pursuits has moved ahead in the current legislative session, clearing a committee cutoff deadline last week.

But the proposal faces an uncertain future, with opponents, including police-reform activists and a key Democratic committee chair, suggesting the current pursuit law is working as intended.

Instead of rolling back any pursuit restrictions this year, majority Democrats may opt to create a task force to recommend “a model vehicle pursuit policy.”

The restrictions on police pursuits were passed in 2021 as part of a broader package of limits on use of force in the wake of widespread protests over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in May of 2020.

That was all misplaced and for what, one Black criminal? All of the defund craziness has led to nothing but the destruction of America, exactly what the lunatics want.

February 24, 2023 5:03am

February 10, 2023

Those Of Color Now A Majority In Public Schools

Unfortunately kids of color make up the majority of students enrolled in Washington public schools, though slim those other than white has increased by nearly 50%.

The milestone was always inevitable, just a question of timing. National estimates say that net U.S. population growth in the past several years has been from people of color, and public schools are generally more racially diverse than the adult population. Washington state’s total population is around 66% white.

But the pandemic may have tipped the scale here. Kids of color weren’t the majority until last fall, according to state data. In 2020, they were still in the minority.

The number is yet another sign that public schools are undergoing a major shift — and not just in the parts of the state where students of color make up the majority.

 Almost every school district in the state has seen its share of students of color zoom up. In a system that has long been criticized as being modeled on what works for a middle-class white kid, white kids are no longer the most common customer.

When a student is counted as multiracial, for example, they aren’t counted as any other race. Or, if a student is Latino and Indigenous they have to pick one — they won’t be counted as both, at least in this data set.

One more reason to secure The Border and stop The Invasion and to build more private schools because the public schools are throwing more tax money mostly from whites, at the problem because too many people of color are bringing down the entire system because most can’t be  educated.

February 10, 2023 5:23am

January 23, 2023

Clallam Crime And Lack Of Support

The New Sheriff of Clallam County is disgusted with The Liberal Lefty Lunatics that the voters of Clallam keep sending to The State Legislature and with The Local Loons that help The State Legislature make changes that have made the job of policing more difficult.

Sheriff Brian King is now a victim or at least has been made more aware of The Loony idea that gee if you just be nicer to the criminals and The LGBTQABC123XYZ community and that “Our Legislature had good intentions” when enacting these crazy notions, everything will be just peachy creamy.

King is now realizing what responsible citizens already knew, that people aren’t even hiding their drug use that it is in the streets, parks, and even across the street from his own home in Port Angeles ofwhoch he had spoke out recently about in a public forum

”Washington State has the lowest officer-to-citizen ratio in the country.”

King asked of voters that “My pitch today is for you to email your legislator, and let them know your opinion.”

The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs is urging legislators to bring back balance in several areas.

The State Supreme Court’s Blake Decision on Feb. 25, 2021 ruled that the state’s simple drug possession law was unconstitutional.

The Legislature re-criminalized it with the passage of ESB 5476. The changes make possession crimes misdemeanors with mandatory diversion to services for at least the first two occasions, according to ACLU Washington.

“Now we have to hand them a piece of paper three times,” King said. “It is not working.”

“This has created a quagmire, this reform movement.”

Fentanyl has even now reached Washington State and The Peninsula and is becoming an epidemic, “it took it a while to get here, it is deadly stuff, and it is here.”

In 2021, the sheriff’s office seized 279 pills and in 2022, 20,000 pills.

“Drugs drive crimes,’ King said. “If we could take away the drugs maybe we wouldn’t need the jail.”

Poor laws have had consequences.

“Police reform” legislation passed in 2021 includes the requirement that pursuits must be preceded by “permission” from a supervisor and must be engaged in with supervisory control. They are allowed only if the officer has probable cause to believe the person has committed a violent offense, sex offense or an escape offense; if the officer suspects the person has or is driving under the influence; or if the person poses an imminent threat to public safety.

“We are a society of rules, and when law enforcement is behind you on the road, they turn their lights on, and you pull over. Well, that doesn’t happen anymore,” King said.

January 23, 2023 5:03am