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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2013, 11:53 AM Mar 2013

Student Loan debt surpasses credit card debt in the US: $1Trillion+

Manuel Rapalo ‏@Manuel_Rapalo

#StudenLoan debt surpasses credit card debt in the US $1Trillion+ #StudentDebtBubble @AbbyMartin #BreakingTheSet

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Student Loan debt surpasses credit card debt in the US: $1Trillion+ (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 OP

The good news is that when they graduate college, they may be able to find a full time AndyA Mar 2013 #1

roflmao LiberalEsto Mar 2013 #2

The greed is beyond belief in this country. Sooner or later it will all collapse sabrina 1 Mar 2013 #3

Respectfully, this time it's different. If we allow greed to run its course into collapse, Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 #4

AndyA

(16,993 posts)

1. The good news is that when they graduate college, they may be able to find a full time

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 12:03 PM

Mar 2013

minimum wage job! Then they can start paying down all that debt, and have it paid off before they retire!!

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

2. roflmao

Reply to AndyA (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 03:44 PM

Mar 2013

Neither of my kids graduated. We've still got about $43,000 to pay on their student loans.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)

3. The greed is beyond belief in this country. Sooner or later it will all collapse

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Fri Mar 15, 2013, 10:13 AM

Mar 2013

again and again until one day we will realize that like it or not, the perpetrators, regardless of how wealthy they are, will simply have to be stopped.

They need to take lessons from Chavez, as someone said recently. Because this is not working for the American people.

Disgusting, immoral, unethical and criminal and yet, no one is doing anything about it except for OWS.

Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)

4. Respectfully, this time it's different. If we allow greed to run its course into collapse,