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The Daily Currant
President Obama announced a plan today to forgive 100% of all federal student loans in the country.
In a speech at in Scranton, PA the president told an assembled crowd that it was unfair to hold college graduates to promises they made as students and outlined his vision for ending all student loan payments by the end of the year.
"Just because someone borrowed a bunch of money doesn't mean they have to pay it back," he explained to a friendly crowd at Scranton University, "This isn't 19th century England. This is America. And in America we've always believed in second chances.
"In today's economy a university education is more important than ever. Where would successful people like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt or Mark Zuckerberg be without their college diplomas? These days skipping college just isn't an option, but neither is continuing to pay for increasingly expensive tuition.
"We need colleges to teach our young people useful skills like sociology, gender studies and postmodern Moldovian claymation. But the most important thing we need to teach them is responsibility. And what better way to teach responsibility than to hold these banks accountable for the terrible loans they've made."
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