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May 6, 2023Liked by Brian Spears

(ptui!) 😂

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Congratulations! It shouldn’t have been this hard. Yes, yes, yes to everything you proposed. Our young people are indentured servants of Wall Street and our corrupt “representatives” in Congress.

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Doing the paperwork really drove home how often programs are made deliberately difficult to access. I have two degrees directly connected to the use of language and those forms would have beaten me if not for the enormous amount of debt that was at stake. I mean, I turned in my application for forgiveness last October and I heard back today, seven months later and not all that far ahead of when repayment is supposed to restart, and that was with me having “made” 186 of the 120 payments I needed for forgiveness.

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It’s a crime. Literal and organized. BTW, I love your work, which I have followed for some time. All power to you.

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May 6, 2023Liked by Brian Spears

Congratulations!

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Congratulations! That must be a wonderful feeling!

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Yes. I mean, we’re talking about a mortgage on a small house level of debt here that’s just gone now and if it weren’t for this program it never would have gone away.

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That's wonderful. Like you said in your post, you've earned it.

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