Oh LOOK someone has decided to do something about the gigantic loan bubble (student, not housing) in the form of commissioning a report from the Consumer Protection Bureau, and YAY Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill) has gone ahead and followed the recommendations of the report, introducing not one, but TWO bills on private student loans! TWO! And one of them would even reverse the bankruptcy discharge law! Does the system finally work? Does it? Of course it doesn't, this is America, and so both of these bills are “going nowhere!” USA! USA!
Bootstraps, my boy! Bootstraps! That's the trouble with kids today ... those newfangled sneakers don't have good old-fashioned bootstraps, the sort you can pull yourself up by!
{snark <i>off</i>; parental worry <i>on</i>} It is the Murikan way. Saving lives and healing the sick is for-profit. Higher Education is for-profit. Incarcerating felons is for-profit. And Congress is for-profit. And those are just the ones that come immediately to mind.
I fear greatly for OWLesquire&#039;s future. <i>Jericho</i>-type existence seems closer each day - brought about by an apocalypse of greed.
C&#039;mon now ... tell us what you <i>really</i> think.
Bootstraps, my boy! Bootstraps! That&#039;s the trouble with kids today ... those newfangled sneakers don&#039;t have good old-fashioned bootstraps, the sort you can pull yourself up by!
I hear Moodys will still give you a AAA on English Lit futures, if you know the right guy.
Opposed: greedy banks and their GOP.
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My nephew picked Picadilly Circus School, and was hugely disappointed.
Well, my Pa keeps pretending he doesn&#039;t have a paltry $20K to loan me, so I guess I don&#039;t deserve to exist in Amercia.
Extra coffee today?
At least it&#039;s creating jobs for some people. I get at least 2 voice mails a day wanting my student loan payments.
{snark <i>off</i>; parental worry <i>on</i>} It is the Murikan way. Saving lives and healing the sick is for-profit. Higher Education is for-profit. Incarcerating felons is for-profit. And Congress is for-profit. And those are just the ones that come immediately to mind.
I fear greatly for OWLesquire&#039;s future. <i>Jericho</i>-type existence seems closer each day - brought about by an apocalypse of greed.