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To: average joe who wrote (350)2/9/2009 6:18:23 AM
From: Brumar89Respond to of 1134
 
Whether thats good or bad depends on what kind of society you want. If you think its a good thing for everyone to be held down in a status of pretty equally poverty, dependent on government largesse, no hope to make it on their own and advance themselves ..... it seems to be working.

driving young families into long-term poverty. She is watching the children of former students suffer financially from their parents' pursuit of university and college degrees, said Hughes, program co-ordinator for the non-profit Kingston Credit Counselling.

"Student loans can absolutely destroy people's lives," she said. "We have taken this generation of young people and taken them out of our economy. It precludes them from buying a house, from being consumers.