Dem committees attack House Republicans on student loans

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4. Fine, fine.

So the most talented of this country's youth should learn work at McDonald's or WalMart or wait tables (the kind of jobs students get) while they're trying to learn quantum field theory?

Of course, you do know that one cannot earn a living wage at such jobs, don't you? So maybe they need to take on multiple jobs to do so?

The problem with student debt isn't the students. It's the predatory lenders. For Christ sakes, Wall Street is bundling student loans into bonds just like they bundle mortgages. And they are getting rich on them. And the Republicans want the interest rates to go up.

Please, get some perspective on what is really going on here. Stop blaming the victim, the bright students who have to mortgage their futures to do something fulfilling.

The system is fucked. What would you do if your daughter or son was brilliant and wanted to change the world? Tell them to get a job at WalMart and earn their way?