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6. Making up stories "a recent, similar article"
Tue Jul 28, 2015, 01:27 PM
Jul 2015

in order to express your right-wing outrage isn't going to help you here.

The issue, in my view, is that we are basically forcing folks to take out student loans because they don't have other options (check out the level of income inequality in this country before allowing your head to further explode). Teenagers entering college do this in order to have a shot at what they think is a future. As opposed to working at Walmart for $7.50/hour or dealing drugs from their family's apartment. Also older Americans will take a chance on going back to school after republicans (and some democrats) ship millions of jobs overseas and they find themselves pink-slipped at 40+ - good luck finding a new job at that point.

This isn't an isolated issue. It's part of the entire American nightmare (I refuse to call it a dream) that we are all living right now. If you've inherited money or paid to post on the Internet by the Koch Bros. you're probably still doing ok - but most Americans are not in those boats. Most Americans are working more hours for less money (if they can find jobs at all) while the billionaires at the helm frolic at will.

Enjoy it while it lasts, comrade.

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