Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erickson show. The phone number is 877-97-9-7-3-7-4-25. Just a programming note for you at the bottom of this hour, Matt Dolan is going to join me. He is running for the U. in Ohio. JD Vance has gotten all of the attention of late.

And now in second place, you've got a whole bunch of people together.

And the Dolan camp said, can he come on?

Like, sure, I'd have everybody on.

He asks, so he gets on.

And I actually like the guy a lot too, like his staff.

Good pro-life conservative in Ohio who is actually really actually is a conservative.

But that's at the bottom of the hour.

Right now I want to actually take some phone calls from people who've been waiting rather patiently.

And I want to begin with Lori.

Lori, welcome to the Eric Erickson show.

Hi, thank you for having me.

Sure.

So I was calling about the student loan forgiveness

and just relay my experience, my son when he was going to be graduating from high school, he's looking

at his dream school, which was NYU, out-of-state tuition.

I explained that there was no way that we could afford that without him getting student loans,

that that would, I estimated about $200,000 in student loans.

And he, in his 18-year-old experience life, explains that that would be fine. He would pay that back. And he in his 18-year-old experienced life explains that that would be fine. He would

pay that back. And I said to him that at 18, he does not have the experience or concept

understanding of what a debt of $200,000 would look like to him for the rest of his life

and that as a parent, it would be

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