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Warpy

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12. Rolling Jubilee is another branch, buying uncollectable debt
Sat Jan 3, 2015, 05:47 PM
Jan 2015

for ten cents (or less) on the dollar from collection agencies and retiring it, much of it medical debt. Oh, yeah, I contributed and anybody with a few bucks DU didn't get should consider it.

When I talked to the people online while it was still going on, I found them to be young, rather naive in a lot of ways and from all over the political, social and religious spectrum. The one thing that glued them together was the realization of what had happened to working people in this country over the last few decades that had finally come down to them, crippling them by tying them to a mountain of school debt while not producing the jobs they should have been able to move into in order to pay it off.

I've considered OWS and the Teabaggers to be symptoms that the rich man's gravy train is about to be derailed. OWS knew what the real problems are and who to blame. The teabaggers are still listening to Beck and talking about commies and welfare queens.

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