To the Editor:
Re “Justices Say No to Pupil Mortgage Reduction” (entrance web page, July 1):
I’m a left-leaning particular person, however I really applaud a right-wing court docket determination on pupil loans.
Poor planning shouldn’t be rewarded. You shouldn’t borrow what you can not pay again. Many who would have been eligible for mortgage forgiveness have ample household property to pay. You punish those that saved and deliberate.
Residents ought to assist each other. That being mentioned, there are present applications that may be expanded to assist. We offer mortgage forgiveness to medical doctors who serve in underserved areas. Why not assemble one thing comparable?
Society has a number of wants. Easy examples: Drive an E.M.T. automobile two night shifts per week. Be a volunteer fireman. Donate time to a child-care middle. Give to get!
Peter Kestenbaum
Philadelphia
To the Editor:
Battles over reduction for school debt are difficult and contentious. However the debate misses the larger query. How have increased schooling charges soared so excessive that so many college students are pressured to borrow massive {dollars} to pay the payments?
No different nation places its younger folks by way of such a monetary wringer, burdening many with years of payback. Has the standard of our increased schooling in any means tracked these rising prices?
Stephen Clean
New York
The author is a retired professor of worldwide enterprise at Tempo College.
To the Editor:
We must always not ignore the affect of the way in which pupil loans are structured. At numerous factors in the course of the lifetime of the mortgage, the unpaid curiosity is capitalized, that means that any accrued curiosity is added to the mortgage steadiness, inflicting the quantity owed to proceed to balloon over time.
The coed mortgage business is preying upon folks for whom borrowing could be the solely choice to obtain a school schooling. Sadly, a major variety of these debtors don’t handle to finish their schooling (for a lot of causes). So, mortgage reimbursement is akin to creating mortgage funds on a home that they by no means get to stay in.
Even when pupil mortgage forgiveness had been accepted by the Supreme Courtroom, it will not have solved the problem of a pupil mortgage business that’s structured to set debtors up for failure. That is what our legislators want to handle.
Rebecca Bryant Williams
Winston-Salem, N.C.
To the Editor:
Re “‘This Is Not a Regular Courtroom,’ Biden Asserts After Its Ruling” (information article, June 30):
This court docket is independently wanting on the Structure and actions taken by the president in addition to some points that had not been addressed over time that wanted to be addressed. They’re doing it rationally and in response to the Structure, not standard calls for.
Sure, that is “not a standard court docket” — as a result of it’s doing what it’s alleged to be doing!
As to the coed mortgage forgiveness that was rejected, it’s as much as Congress to resolve to spend $400 billion, not the president of the US unilaterally.
Peter Drexler
Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.
To the Editor:
In Sweden, the rate of interest on pupil loans is 0.59 %. Within the U.S., the speed is at the moment 4.99 % on federal pupil loans and sometimes from 4 to 14 % on non-public pupil loans.
President Biden ought to decrease the rate of interest on federal pupil loans to zero.
Kevin Cahill
Albuquerque
The author is a professor of physics and astronomy on the College of New Mexico.
Confronting the Grief Depicted in ‘The Bear’
To the Editor:
Re “‘The Bear’ Understands My Grief,” by Chris Vognar (Opinion visitor essay, June 26):
This essay concerning the FX sequence “The Bear” got here at an ideal time for me to learn. Having misplaced my spouse of 31 years to muscular dystrophy final December, I really feel the identical phases of grief and anger that Mr. Vognar has depicted, and have tried as exhausting as I can to maintain placing one foot in entrance of the opposite.
I do know the sensation of being disconnected from my grief when I’m working, after which having the sensation hit me after I return house at evening to the truth that she is gone.
When our daughter died, I discovered goal in making my spouse’s life as completely happy and full as potential, regardless of her deteriorating power, and we did, up till the tip, and he or she handed with no regrets.
The place my journey takes me now, I don’t know but, however as time heals my ache, I’ll discover my goal.
Ross Whitehead
Lynbrook, N.Y.
To the Editor:
Chris Vognar’s essay celebrates the present’s genuine portrayal of loss. I lately misplaced each my grandparents. They have been 96 and 100, and I assumed I used to be nicely ready for his or her departure.
However my grandmother purchased cheese for me on the grocery store, clipped articles for me from The New York Occasions, which she learn cowl to cowl day by day, and referred to as me to speak day by day. I’ve an ache in my coronary heart with out her, and I don’t know if it should ever disappear.
I secretly resent it when folks say, “Give it time, you’ll really feel it much less.” I don’t need to really feel it much less, and that’s the Bear — it’s robust. I need to maintain onto my grief so I can maintain onto my grandparents.
Shedding grandparents is so frequent, it makes me notice that everybody on this planet might be experiencing some type of loss. Perhaps we’re all strolling round with a Bear inside.
To the Editor:
Re “Coming Out Late, and Discovering New Life in Midlife,” by Charles M. Blow (column, June 25):
I’m the ex-wife of a person who got here out late in life and a volunteer for OurPath, a world group that gives assist for people whose spouses are popping out as L.G.B.T.Q. I applaud each those that are capable of stay authentically and Mr. Blow for acknowledging the straight spouses like me.
Nevertheless, solely the shiny facet of our story is instructed right here. I’ve talked with husbands and wives who’ve been gaslighted, lied to, and emotionally and financially abused. We’ve been instructed that sexual issues are our fault, that our considerations are our creativeness and that we’re misinterpreting proof.
Sure, we need to love and assist our husbands or wives once they lastly come out to us. We aren’t homophobic, and these are the people now we have chosen to spend a life with.
Nevertheless it’s necessary to notice that our belief has been shattered, our hearts have been damaged, our households ruptured, our properties misplaced, our funds destroyed, and that we’re left behind as an inconvenient fact whereas our spouses are celebrated for what usually is, at its core, deception and adultery.
The answer just isn’t for L.G.B.T.Q. people to stay closeted. The answer is for religions and society to simply accept particular person sexual wants and orientations in order that households could be constructed on honesty.
Kate Woodworth
Vik, Iceland
Brazil’s Instance for the U.S.
To the Editor:
Re “Within the U.S., Trump Is Operating. In Brazil, Bolsonaro Was Barred” (information evaluation, July 2):
Brazil exhibits us that it’s simply that easy. If a candidate intentionally makes spurious claims concerning the election course of in an try and throw an election, she or he must be barred from working. Interval.
R. Maura Atcherson
Eugene, Ore.
