“College debt shows up a lot in these stories, actually. It’s more insistently present than housing debt, or even unemployment. That might speak to the fact that the protests tilt towards the young. But it also speaks, I think, to the fact that college debt represents a special sort of betrayal. We told you that the way to get ahead in America was to get educated. You did it. And now you find yourself in the same place, but buried under debt. You were lied to.”

“Who are the 99 percent?,” Ezra Klein, The Washington Post 

I’m very happy and proud of my education, I voraciously loved learning and what I got out of school is very important to me. I still think this system is bullshit, and have no way of making a single payment on any of my loans. Occupy Student Debt is growing. Watch for us. 

(Source: hold-a-wolfs-ears)

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