News & Politics   comments_image Comments   Student loans have
been going up since the recession began--and now defaults are up
too. Something has to be done, but what?   • submit to reddit
• submit to reddit  “If you want to take a relation of violent
extortion, sheer power, and turn it into something moral, and
most of all, make it seem like the victims are to blame, you
turn it into a relation of debt.” -- Economic anthropologist
David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years  Tarah
Toney worked two full-time jobs to put herself through college,
at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas, and still has $75,000
in debt. She graduated in six years with a Bachelor's in English
and wanted to go on to teach high school.  “Right about the time
I graduated, Texas severely cut funding to our education
system—thanks, Perry--and school districts across the state
stopped hiring and started firing. It became abundantly clear
that there was no job for me in the Texas public school system,”
she told me. “After two