Student-Loan Interest Cut

American Voices

January 31, 2007 | ISSUE 43•05

The House of Representatives voted to cut interest rates on certain student loans last week. What do you think?

But the only excitement I have in my life is the cat-and-mouse game I play with my student loan officer.

Georgia Cummings
Systems Analyst
I can't wait to tell my loan officer that I'll be paying back my loan two weeks earlier than my previously stated goal date of never.

Jeffrey Cain
Referee
As this will inevitably entice many to purchase more education than they can afford, please let me know when I can buy one of those fancy educated brains at foreclosure.

Robert Loehman
Body Piercer

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