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re: "...there was a gal on the idiot box the other night talking about her 'student loan'. She was a freshman and owed $67,000 bucks. She is never gonna be able to pay off what it's gonna take her to get an education."
One of my son's friends came up with the following brilliant answer to her education costs:

When that didn't go as well as hoped, she began begging more directly:

It was hard to do, but I finally broke the news to her that I'm already directly funding another student's education and that there's a reason I stopped at only one kid. (Her mom has three.)

Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months