now, what can someone do who finds themselves many thousands of dollars in debt and doesn t want to be there? well, there s still more education. now, on the one hand that s helped people get even more and more in debt and get in bad places, but if you re a sociology major $60,000 in debt and you decide you really don t want to be there, well, there s the colorado school of minds for you, and go mines for you, and go get a degree in mineral engineering, get out there in north dakota where the average salary has increased by 40% because of the oil and natural gas boom out there. so i think it s a tough question. i don t think we should be in the business of forgiving student loan debt. i think there s a personal responsibility element there that is the orthodoxy. i agree with david that we shouldn t be forgiving it as a matter of public policy. but unfortunately, we already are. we have public service loan forgiveness, we have teacher loan forgiveness, we have a myriad of
the bell has rung, and congress is out for summer. members fanning out to their districts to hear the heated opinions of constituents at town hall meetings, and with less than eight weeks to go before the official launch of new health care marketplaces until the afford kabul care ac, backers of the law are out in force encouraging people to sign up. then, of course, there are the law s opponents. you remember these guys. who do you want to die so that we re on the par with the english system? if this thing goes into effect beginning october 1st with the exchanges and mandates kicking in, it will do irreparable damage to our economy and our country. the house of representatives should pass a continuing resolution that funds the federal government in its entirety, every aspect, except for obama care. that idea has been called dumb, dishonest, feckless, and just plain silly, by senator cruz s fellow republicans. back in republican districts, the most sensible are being f
success, is in such dire straits that the city is in need of an intervention. on tuesday afternoon, a panel of state-appointed experts released their findings that the city of detroit faces quote, a financial emergency, one which they say the city is not equipped to address. as a result, detroit may soon become the largest american municipality in history to file for bankruptcy. the decision may be left to just one person. if michigan governor rick snider decides to act on the panel s report and appoint an emergency financial manager, a decision expected to be made in the coming week. key findings of the six-person panel include that the detroit police department has more than 2,000 employees but no accurate information on how they are deployed. that the city s long-term liabilities in 2012 grew beyond $14 billion and that the city officials violated accounting and budgeting rules. detroit is on the verge of collapse but if you re thinking wait a minute, didn t we already sav
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i m not going to go into the corner and curl up because someone found out something embarrassing about me. you see what s going on here today? if you become mayor of the city of new york, you d better put up with this every single day, people saying, you know what, you did something we don t like, cameras in your face, back down, quit. that s not the kind of man i m going to be. sir, i say to you in all due respect, if you do not like to vote for me, don t vote for me, but don t deny these people the right to vote for me if they want to. okay. good morning, everybody. welcome to morning joe. little known fact, mika. what s that? before approaching senator barack obama in 2006, robert gibbs had been pressuring anthony weiner to run for president of the united states. anthony said no, said he was busy and couldn t do it, and so he reluctantly went to barack obama. there you go. with us on set, former white house press secretary and msnbc contributor robert gibbs. is