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This mightvsound weird but I love getting my teeth cleaned. Do it 4x a year. I love having this woman pick away at all this crud for so long. I like the feeling of healthiness afterward. I just live getting my teeth cleaned. Sure it hurts a little … I even like that.

It’s my main medical thing.

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There’s medication they sell at like 50 bucks a tooth. Antibiotics … Probably a ripoff. But my mom has periodontal problems beyond belief so I’ll pay anything.

Still I am doomed

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I think I paid 100 or 150. But there was some expensive mess they sold me w it total 334.00

worth it

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i think they kind of cost a lot. you need a bigger place, a bigger car…your wife takes off work…she wants to give them organic food. they need money for this, for that…it adds up to a lot.

on the other hand, I would be a lot broker if I hadn’t had kids, because it would have been difficult for me to get out of bed and go to work every damn day for several decades without some sort of extreme impetus, like an infant…focusses the mind…

for pure entertainment value, they’re a good deal…

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It costs about most of what you have, financially, mentally and physically.

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I’d like to build a small guest house out of tires.

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Why is the replacement tire price painful but the sticker price exhilarating?

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Another possible solution would be to not allow any law degrees to be granted for the next 7 years. That would depress supply, increase the value of current degree holders and allow them to maybe service the debt.

Just an idea.

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Make the new law for mentioning a forfeited degree for commercial gain punishable by a penalty equal to triple the forgiven debt, nondischargeable in bankruptcy.

In fact you can’t even mention it for non commercial gain. You must never speak of it again.

No. Quiet. Shhhhh. We shall not speak of it.

Also we need laws prohibiting guidance counselors advising anyone to go to college while in hs.

And ten years in federal prison. Ah-ah-ahhh. Zip the lip. Not even a tiny whisper.

Man. Imagine if housing debt were nondischargeable! There would be major social unrest.

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On the flip side. The markets never going to right itself until students understand just how dangerous this debt is. Until we have hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of enraged, unemployed people with hundreds of thousands of unpaid penalty accruing debt living marginally or homeless and screaming from street corners, new hs grads will not get it. The market needs signals and allowing bankruptcy will stop that perpetual underclass from forming and letting the market know that student loan debt could be toxic to their future.

Our only hope us to allow a generation of failed students to be crippled with debt so those that come after them will know to tread carefully.

That, or we could just eliminate govt guaranteed loans and tuition prices would fall.

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True the student debtor was dumb. True they had other options. True they chased a career path that was financially suicidal.

Other than trying to squeeze out a few dimes for the taxpayer, why not let them have another shot?

I guess it just goes to show, for student debtors, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

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You can’t take away the knowledge true. But you can take away the credential.

The law will be, on discharge of educational debt, the debtor shall be criminally prosecuted for fraud for claiming to possess the particular degree or to have attended law school for any purpose whatsoever (other than to explain a gap in time on a resume, and for that purpose there shall be a standardized form).

I doubt there is much useful in anyone’s mind from the 3 years of law school. Just residual anxiety and fear.

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I think most people don’t learn much in school.

What I learned; be very fast, be very thorough, be very paranoid you’re missing something very important.

Maybe that was worth the tuition in a way…

I think there are huge numbers of people out there who’d gladly give up the degree and any benefit or priviliege appertaining thereto to discharge the debt. I mean jeez if someone’s willing to admit they just wasted three or four years of their life, why not cut em some slack?

Eliminating govt guarantee of student loans is really a separate issue.

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We don’t want anyone chained for life to debt…other than people who tried and failed to get ahead thru schooling?

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Somehow seems wrong all around.

Particularly given societal brainwashing from early on that schooling is the way to get ahead.

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