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"Yeah the Country is in terrible, terrible condition. Everyone has at least two cars, many people buy cars for graduation presents for their kids, many people can afford to send their kids to college even though tuition has doubled and tripled in price, everyone has a big neautiful flat screens, $3.00 gas scares no one, and on and on and on."
tstorm, I've just graduated from college. I will end up paying $100,000 in college debt. My television is a hand-me-down that's probably incapable of cable television once they make the switch to digital. My car has almost 100,000 miles on it, and if something were to go wrong or it was stolen, let me tell you, I'd be in a fix. I can't afford repairs, much less just go out and get a new one. Yes, I got a car for graduation. It was work $4K and I paid for a good portion of that with money I'd been saving since 4th grade.
I'm stretching my finances to rent a decent apartment in a fairly safe part of town. I am literally living paycheck to...
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