I live under a constant cloud. Fear grips my heart as I am held hostage by my life. I can’t see a way out, and so I try to block it out of my consciousness until the day when I can ignore it no more. It lives and breathes, waiting…
I’m drowning. It’s a slow death, but one that binds our bodies and stifles our spirit.
It’s Jon’s student loan debt. I managed to squeak out of my undergraduate years with zero debt, thanks almost entirely to being the progeny of an economics professor who took steps to fund my education through available state programs when I was about 9. Jon, unfortunately, was not so lucky. Many, many years later… and having now completed both an undergraduate degree and an insanely expensive medical degree, we are faced with the very real possibility that his loans will not be paid off in our working lifetime. They are as much as a well appointed house. A house that we might never be able to afford because of these loans hanging over our heads.
So, I implore you! Please go to this site and vote for this proposal for the government to include student loan debt forgiveness in their economic stimulus plan!
Here’s another interesting article on the topic.
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