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The big deal today is student loans. This is the same thing that happened with the bank loans where we are loaning people money that don’t qualify for a mortgage. Now we are loaning students money and probably three fourths have never paid anything back. All you have to do is look on TV and see the computer gentleman that recently died. He only went to college for a short time and he turned out to be a billionaire. So, why don’t we get some of these people working instead of going to school on our dollar.

Regarding the article the other day about white collar criminals getting a slap on the wrist while blue collar criminals always end up in prison. It is not fair.

Why is the Hyde County finance office the only ones that get a raise?

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