Governor Bill Lee Of TN Do You Really Think TN Residents Are Concerned About Children Frolicking In Fall Leaves Over Talking About Reducing Crime, Dealing With Illegals & Allowing The Taxpaers To Fund Paying Off Student Loans Others Feel They Deserve Re-Imbursement For?

I recently heard the new campaign ad for Governor Lee on the radio and actually saw the television commercial too. It is lovely that you have family values and you had choices where to send your children for education, but I think we have bigger problems out there that need to be addressed over playing in the leaves. What about parents that are receiving the news their child was shot or even killed by someone who was operating in violence. This is going on in TN and you in my opinion should be presenting your plan of action in ads how you are and will be combating that for us in TN. I do not even hear a peep from you about taking the illegals that crossed our border illegally and moving them out of state to a sanctuary city or state for that matter. This is becoming a big problem in TN too. Are you able to somehow stop these kids out there from getting student loan forgiveness that reside in TN. I know President Biden is all about this but really, do we have to pay for their student loans. As a governor can you somehow block this from taking effect in TN and further burdening taxpayers?

I had a conversation recently with someone in their 20's that feels they are owed it to them. At one-point this person said I had a privileged life, and they did not. I quickly stopped that thought from going any further. My mother worked straight commission jobs (personnel agency first then in real estate and received honored designations after her name for further education in the industry too). She chose to work very hard to put food on the table, pay bills and put nice clothes on our backs so to speak (she has a great sense of taste when it comes to clothing and style too). She sacrificed to send 4 of us to Catholic grade school and Catholic high school. My sister and I went on to Jesuit University. I worked a college work study job while attending school and worked full time for the county on summer breaks. Privilege, I think not. My father died with an estate valued at 1.98 million dollars and we had to fight via contesting his will (in which the will stated if anyone contests the will, they will lose the portion coming to them in the will). No big loss for us remaining children (well the eldest brother died the previous year and that was not even changed in his will) that were listed to receive 10,000.00 each. Privilege?

 My former husband attended an exclusive university for undergraduate studies. Then law school at another university attending evenings while we were married and not only worked fulltime during the day but would work a part time job on some weekends in which he worked this job while going to school when he was younger. He passed the bar exam the very first time he took the test too. This is an intelligent man I was married to. I did not see the government stepping in to forgive his student loans, no, we paid them back what was owed to them. My children had a few loans when they attended college, but my former husband would pay them off, so they had a fresh start when they graduated from college. I didn't see the government offer to pay their loans. If one group of people are being selected for paying off student loan debt, then we need to grandfather in those that paid their debts when it comes to student loans. What's good for the goose is good for the gander so to speak.

What bothered me the most about our conversation was the sense of entitlement. This is a person that in my opinion is successful workwise and with attaining good grades in school and graduating in high standard. They shared with me they have the full amount of money owed for loans in the bank collecting interest instead of paying back the loans that the money was set aside for in the event they had to pay it back someday. How in the world is that ethical. To have the money but choose to not pay the loan back that you chose to take out for education? Another thing, they sense they have already paid back more than the student loan owed by paying taxes and being taxed on school revenue and they don't plan on having children to even use the school systems they have paid into. Oh, another thing in their argument deals with social security tax they pay. They say they will never see social security in their years so why do they have to pay for something they will never see. They feel that is an even exchange of what they pay into that should make it right for them to be forgiven their student loan portion.

That generation thinks like things are owed to them. Even though they may work hard in some instances they feel a sense of entitlement. I just do not understand this concept of thinking.