According to the College Board’s Trends in Student Aid study, 10 percent of people who graduated in 2007-8 with student loans had borrowed $40,000 or more. The median debt for bachelor’s degree recipients who borrowed while attending private, nonprofit colleges was $22,380.
Eratosthenes first measured the circumference of the earth from the shadows cast by the sun. Today, humanity's fitness to survive will be measured by our ability to conquer that same thermonuclear fusion that casts those shadows. Thus, Prometheus will truly be unbound.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Debt Moratoria Redux?
Many years ago a voice in the wilderness cried out for a debt moratorium for the third world. Maybe now the futility of propping up fat cat financiers might hit the mis-educated upon their collective craniums. (perhaps I ask for too much...)
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