The Times had no trouble finding Tully as a representative of this group, along with several others who are equally repugnant. (Maybe they were looking for someone who looks like Sheldon’s nerd girlfriend Amy on “Big Bang Theory.”) Amanda, we learn, believed a college degree was her “ticket to a better life.” Yes, that’s been sold to pretty much everyone for a hundred years at least, and almost all of them managed to stay here.

She graduated in 2017 with not just a college degree but also a master’s degree in historic preservation from the University of Oregon. Gee, that’s a promising field to ensure success and riches! Good thinking, Amy. She owed $65,000 in federal student loans and had no job offers in the conservation field.

Get this: she blamed everyone else. “I was never financially stable because I was never taught to be financially stable,” she told the Times. DINGDINGDINGDINGDING! Her problem is that she never learned squat about ethics. You know, responsibility. Accountability. Moral and ethical obligations. Fairness. I’ll bet all of the toes on my right foot that she was also thoroughly indoctrinated into the progressive myth that everyone should count on the government to make life easy for us. She grew up in Colorado, after all.

Less than a year after graduating, we are told—let me repeat that—less than a year after graduating, “Tully made a drastic decision: She moved to Prague, where she had completed an internship, and defaulted on her loans. She hasn’t made a payment in over seven years.” And, it seems, doesn’t feel bad about it one bit. Even though she was on an income-based repayment plan that allows some borrowers to have their remaining debt forgiven after 20 years if they make sufficient payments, and was paying only $60 per month when she defaulted— my veterinary care insurance for Spuds is only a bit less than that—poor Amanda found the obligation “psychologically burdensome” and “frustrating.’

Nobody “taught” this creep to deal with frustration either, I guess. Damn them!

The Times, as is its wont, found an “expert” to explain Amanda and others like her in the most sympathetic terms possible. “The psychological weight of carrying debt is a really widespread issue, even if it seems financially manageable,” Michele Zampini at the Institute for College Access and Success told them. “It’s not necessarily ‘I can’t afford it.’ It’s sometimes ‘It feels like I had no other choice but to go to college and I had to take out loans to go, and now I’m going to be stuck with this,’ which can define people’s lives in a way that feels very unfair and harmful.”

Oh yecchh. Zampini is an enabler of unethical conduct. Zampini is quoted in the story as saying she is concerned about “the narrative” that defaulting borrowers living abroad are “gaming the system,” or are such a small minority of borrowers that their experiences shouldn’t motivate policy change.

Right. They aren’t “gaming the system,” they are stealing money from U.S. taxpayers. This empathetic expert says that policies should change to accommodate sociopaths, entitled jerks and ficks like Amanda, who doesn’t see anything wrong with what she has done or regret her decision. More from “the expert”:

“This is one piece of the bigger puzzle of how borrowers are managing. The fact that someone would need to make such a drastic life change driven by student debt is, itself, an indictment of a broken system.”

What??? Amanda didn’t “need” to flee the U.S. because of her student debt; she chose to do it to save $65,000 plus interest that she would rather spend on her own “needs,” like the expensive headphones she’s wearing in the photo.

A fick, in case you missed it, is the Ethics Alarms term for an unethical person who is defiantly proud of being unethical, with no remorse or sense of shame. That’s Amanda. She and her fellow ficks lionized by the Times also put such a discount value on their American citizenship that they happily surrender it as a means of avoiding obligations.

To be fair, they have all been brainwashed into thinking this is a terrible, racist, cruel place to live.

I’d like the money back, but them? Our nation is better off without Amanda and expatriates like her.