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Sounds like the Long Con became the Longer Con.
by flerchin 10y ago
Sounds like the Long Con became the Longer Con.
- mamadrood 10y agoWell, now I know how to reduce US students debts.
- gus_massa 10y agoI really hope you are wrong, but did the journalist check the following sentence or they take the report at face value? > Although they have not met each other again since, she continued to provide him with financial assistance until he completed his degree a few years ago and got a job in the American oil sector.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoIt's an egregious journalistic fraud if they phrased it that way when what they really meant was "he claims he completed..." It would be a scandalous.
- emodendroket 10y agoI guess it's possible but "put me through college" seems like a pretty lousy con.
- morgante 10y agoSounds like a great con to me. It's literally worth tens of thousands of dollars.
- emodendroket 10y agoYeah, it's a lot of money to commit to up-front, but it's oddly specific, few people are gonna agree to it, and they could easily just ask to cut the checks directly to the school.
- morgante 10y agoHow is getting someone else to pay for your schooling not a con?
- cheiVia0 10y agoWhen it is an investment in the next generation?
- emodendroket 10y agoWell, if someone says "please pay for my schooling," and you agree, and then your money is actually used for schooling, I think it's a bit of a stretch of the definition of "con" to call it one. Both parties are clear about what's happening -- seems more like a gift than a swindle.
- Kurimo 10y agoMost of the time it's just called "parenthood."
- erikpukinskis 10y agoA con is asking someone to pay for one thing and then doing something else with the money.
- hogrammer 10y agoExactly! An it's shocking that Hillary wants to con productive people out of their money (via taxes) to send more people to college.