"For Sale: One kidney. $30,000 plus all expenses. White, male, BS with dual major in physics and mathematics. I personally know this student. He is serious, not crazy. As an honors student, he worked part time for four years. He has been entirely self-supporting and has graduated with a $30,000 student loan debt. In his words: "I only need one kidney, and I want to start out even.""
"It is not an individual's responsibility to have to choose between debt and one kidney, or between forgoing education and avoiding debt. It is, however, the responsibility of government to be a buffer between the public good and predatory Wall Street practices of creating artificial financial "products" to make money at taxpayers' expense, or as cumulative debts to be paid for by our children."
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