As 2009 comes to a close I am inspired that more and more people are taking up the cause of the student loan debtor in America.
I have spent more time reading recently, especially at ForgiveStudentLoanDebt.com. What I have learned is that we need to educate everyone in America about the student loan debtor crisis.
While there seem to be pockets of people, both indebted and not, informed about the issue, there are still far more people unaware of what is going on.
So to everyone reading this I would like to present a delightful challenge for 2010, that if properly accepted and accomplished, could result in such sweeping change to how we operate in America that history would certainly note this as a turning point in the salvation of our culture.
The challenge is simple, rise up and become part of the movement to educate yourselves and others about the enslavement of the educated in this country to lifelong indentured servitude via student loan debt. Make this a secret that is shared and not kept and shame our leaders, both political and financial, for ever trying to silence one of the best parts of the American spirit - it's intelligence!
We the people deserve better - so let us all demand it.
May the New Year bring grace to you all.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
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Thank you for posting this blog! I appreciate your bringing attention to the budding Forgive Student Loan Debt movement. Best wishes for a happy, healthy and properous new year!
ReplyDeleteRob Applebaum
Founder & Executive Director
http://www.forgivestudentloandebt.com
No education should cost this much for anyone. All of the laws that are in place take advantage of young people who have no concept of what there life might be 10 or 15 years later and little have had experience with loans or credit at the time they sign their life away. It was governmental agencies preying on the naivety of the young and hopeful, who just want an education and cannot afford it any other way. It is shameful and disgusting! This US Dept of Education should be ashamed of themselves. They are nothing but glorified loan sharks who knew that the way to make money was to issue loans that would default. It tripled and quadrupled their recovery on loan balances by forcing higher interest and allowing years and years to pass before pursuing. They are the original collection agencies, the ones that are willing to sell their souls to ruin the lives of people who had no clue what they were getting into. So, other than that, I have no opinion about this.
ReplyDeleteThank you to both of you for posting on my blog.
ReplyDeleteTogether we can change how we finance education in America and protect our future students. But it will take effort - effort to get informed and to inform others.
Let's get the higher education system in this country turned back around and out of
the hands of unscrupulous profiteers.
Thanks again for your posts - let's go get 'em!