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Let's talk about student debt.

It's as American as milk that isn't milk.

Millions of Americans are college graduates, which is great.

College provides you job skills.

It exposes you to new ideas.

It gives you a friend named Chad, who's like a brother?

Even though he spilled bomb water all inside your car.

I love you, Chad.

But you're a dick.

But because America doesn't properly subsidize higher education, like almost every other

developed nation in the world, the number of Americans with student debt is higher now

than ever before.

And student debt is a lot like an STD.

Yes, you can get it by accident in college, but then it follows you around for the rest

of your life.

And when I say the rest of your life, I mean it.

There is a ticking time on the looming over the American economy, nearly two trillion

dollars, and student loans owed by 50 million borrowers.

And this is not just a problem for younger Americans.

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