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Erin Larkins, a Columbia University graduate student at who says she and her boyfriend have significant student loan debt, was among the thousands of protesters on the bridge. She said a friend persuaded her to join the march and shes glad she did.
I dont think were asking for much, just to wake up every morning not worrying whether we can pay the rent, or whether our next meal will be rice and beans again, Larkins wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
Poor baby. Eating rice and beans to pay off a debt which you knowingly accumulated.
The starving kids in Africa and the homeless here in the states feel for your plight.
I think you have to go deeper than that.
The education debt is not really by choice now is it? The alternate is no education at all.
How about we address the fact that tuition is becoming absurd. Since the government began bankrolling college education for the masses - same as with the mortgage industry, it has created a false demand and therefore a bubble is becoming well established.
Schools are building new housing apartments like there is no tomorrow...building new wings on to existing buildings etc. etc. - all to accommodate a massive population of kids who have absolutely no business going to college.
Perhaps these two young adults were not among the kids who shouldn't be there - perhaps they belonged in college - but they have no choice in paying $20,000 a year - do they?
They didn't have to go to Columbia.