As nice as it sounds, income based repayment is actually going to enslave you to your debt because in most cases interest accumulation will outweigh (in some cases greatly) any monthly payments that are made. It will keep you out of default, but your debt will grow beyond all reason.   Unfortunately, this is anoth...more

Whatever the number is the banks will still pass it on to the consumers and also think of other ways to fleece the sheep. We are in an absolute no win situation with banks/corporations they will always- ALWAYS refuse to eat even a minor rise in operating cost or loss of revenue even if they look at profits with 9 digit...more

BD213- of course you need to careful whom you vote for, but if you haven't noticed there are not too many choices in any race (2-3 maybe) and at higher levels only the rich can even afford to run and in the process they become bought out by campaign "donors".   To Ravenmad- SS would be fine if it hadn't been raided ...more