to repay your loan. - for the next hour, he offered a range of opinions to support his position. - my daughter paid off her entire student loan. she was able and she was in the income contingent program because her dad knew about it. - not everyone has you for a dad. a lot of people don t know about it. - i mean, we have an awful lot of students who are in never-never land today. but on average, their debt isn t all that substantial. - he concluded with a final thought that encapsulated his position more than anything else - for the ones who put themselves in exceptional debt, they were the damn fools, not the federal government. and they should accept the responsibility for that foolishness. - thanks so much. appreciate it. - my pleasure. - okay. - believe it or not, he was right. this mess was caused by damn fools. only it wasn t decent people like vivian, alan, or marcella,
with my search ground to a halt, i started to wonder if this was all worth it. was anyone else wondering who was responsible for this obscure bankruptcy provision? - i do wonder why student loan debt is exempted from the normal bankruptcy protections. how did that happen? - uh.great minds? - 44 million americans - well, there was one other guy, but nobody was listening to him, either. - they cannot discharge this loan in bankruptcy. congress changed the bankruptcy law, making student loan debts non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. college student loan is with you for a lifetime. we need to restore dischargeability in bankruptcy for student loans once and for all. - senator durbin even introduced a bill to fix the bankruptcy laws. but that seemed to be going nowhere. - for goodness sakes, how can we ignore the crushing student loan debt across america?
with my search ground to a halt, liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. i started to wonder if this was all worth it. was anyone else wondering who was responsible for this obscure bankruptcy provision? - i do wonder why student loan debt is exempted from the normal bankruptcy protections. how did that happen? - uh.great minds? - 44 million americans - well, there was one other guy, but nobody was listening to him, either. - they cannot discharge this loan in bankruptcy. congress changed the bankruptcy law, making student loan debts non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. college student loan is with you for a lifetime. we need to restore dischargeability in bankruptcy for student loans once and for all. - senator durbin even introduced a bill to fix the bankruptcy laws. but that seemed to be going nowhere. - for goodness sakes, how can we ignore the crushing student loan debt across america?
to repay your loan. - for the next hour, he offered a range of opinions to support his position. - my daughter paid off her entire student loan. she was able and she was in the income contingent program because her dad knew about it. - not everyone has you for a dad. a lot of people don t know about it. - i mean, we have an awful lot of students who are in never-never land today. but on average, their debt isn t all that substantial. - he concluded with a final thought that encapsulated his position more than anything else - for the ones who put themselves in exceptional debt, they were the damn fools, not the federal government. and they should accept the responsibility for that foolishness. - thanks so much. appreciate it. - my pleasure. - okay. - believe it or not, he was right. this mess was caused by damn fools. only it wasn t decent people like vivian, alan, or marcella,
was anyone else wondering who was responsible for this obscure bankruptcy provision? - i do wonder why student loan debt is exempted from the normal bankruptcy protections. how did that happen? - uh.great minds? - 44 million americans - well, there was one other guy, but nobody was listening to him, either. - they cannot discharge this loan in bankruptcy. congress changed the bankruptcy law, making student loan debts non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. college student loan is with you for a lifetime. we need to restore dischargeability in bankruptcy for student loans once and for all. - senator durbin even introduced a bill to fix the bankruptcy laws. but that seemed to be going nowhere. - for goodness sakes, how can we ignore the crushing student loan debt across america? - who had caused this whole mess? i wracked my brain for clues from all the conversations i d had over the past three years.