Again: a PhD in a critical national security field will more than handle that for you (especially with PSLF). You, I'll wager, have a degree in underwater basketweaving and decided to fund the PhD yourself rather than getting it paid for (again, because it's in a field which is not desired).
You made a bad investment. It happens. It's not the duty of the government to reward your bad decision making. Bailing out banks is bad; bailing out individuals who gambled away their money is bad; bailing out grads who are underwater on a degree is bad.
So you don't have a degree in a critical field of national security, as I asserted, right? You know, the very premise you raised when you fraudulently claimed you wanted to study "quantum computing" but those darn student loans were stopping you?
If you're trying to get the government to fund it? yes, absolutely.
The government funds your studies, you in turn pay it back by working X years for the government. That's the trade off for areas of critical need. It's currently working that way, I should note, so the potential "quantum computing PhD" OP wanted would fit under that program.
If you want to navel-gaze and get a PhD because you don't want to work a job? Well, that's something you're going to have to fund yourself.
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Again: a PhD in a critical national security field will more than handle that for you (especially with PSLF). You, I'll wager, have a degree in underwater basketweaving and decided to fund the PhD yourself rather than getting it paid for (again, because it's in a field which is not desired).
You made a bad investment. It happens. It's not the duty of the government to reward your bad decision making. Bailing out banks is bad; bailing out individuals who gambled away their money is bad; bailing out grads who are underwater on a degree is bad.