{"id":18079,"date":"2011-04-15T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T21:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=18079"},"modified":"2011-04-16T11:28:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T15:28:08","slug":"infographic-re-student-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/15\/infographic-re-student-loans\/","title":{"rendered":"Infographic re: student loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>From DSC:<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>I post this because this makes me mad! I don&#8217;t have time to verify each piece of information here. But I ask:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">How is it that Wall Street gets bailed out? Or car manufactures, other corporations, or financial institutions too big to fail? <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">How is it that white-collar crime can strip the nest-eggs of millions of Americans?<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Some recent articles\/examples:<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/04\/15\/goldman-sachs-levin-investigation_n_849708.html\" target=\"_blank\">Goldman Sachs Ripped Off And Misled Clients, Senate Report Says<\/a><br \/>\nGoldman Sachs, the nation&#8217;s fifth-largest bank by assets, systematically  misled clients, sold them financial instruments it knew to be junk, bet  against them and profited off of their losses, according to a Senate  report released this week.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/business\/world-business\/shoddy-risky-deceptive-inside-the-american-mortgage-crisis-20110414-1dfyr.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Shoddy, risky, deceptive&#8217;: inside the American mortgage crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">How is it that our Senators and Representatives have a different health care plan than the rest of us?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What happened to our democracy?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">What happened to our hearts?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Bottom line:<br \/>\nIf you are a student, work as hard as you can to not get into debt &#8212; or at least not more debt than you can handle. Know what you are getting into. Have a plan for paying it off. Otherwise it looks like you will be hit with a major, expensive hurt!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, we need to pay off our debts. If we take out loans, we need to pay for them.\u00a0 One quick scripture along these lines says:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?version=NIV&amp;search=Romans+13:8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Romans 13:8 <\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<sup id=\"en-NIV-28275\">8<\/sup> Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one  another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong> But some of the &#8220;fees&#8221; and &#8220;charges&#8221; below make me sick.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Infographic by College Scholarships.org<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegescholarships.org\/research\/student-loans\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collegescholarships.org\/research\/student-loans.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Student Loans Scheme.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegescholarships.org\/research\/\">Infographic<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegescholarships.org\/\">College Scholarships.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: I post this because this makes me mad! I don&#8217;t have time to verify each piece of information here. But I ask: How is it that Wall Street gets bailed out? Or car manufactures, other corporations, or financial institutions too big to fail? 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