{"id":12549,"date":"2009-04-01T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=12549"},"modified":"2009-04-01T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T18:49:52","slug":"josh-lampman-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=12549","title":{"rendered":"Josh Lampman Article&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/education\/college\/bal-md.debt01apr01,0,4538366.story\" title=\"Baltimore Sun\">Baltimore Sun<\/a> reports on this person who is going to gradate from college with a mass load of debt.  He wound up creating a Facebook group on the idea that all college debt needs to be eliminated.  In only a couple of month he has racked up over 150,000 people who have joined his group and over 40,000 have signed a petition to eliminate college debt.<\/p>\n<p>I do not think he is going to get a bill passed to eliminate college debt, but the amount of money you could have in a retirement account over a 40 year period just based on the money spent to pay down college debt for someone with like 30 grand plus in debt is huge.<\/p>\n<p>College debt is fully getting out of hand.<\/p>\n<p>The article says some economists say if you get rid of student loan debt, why not car loans or credit card debt.  You can easily make a case they are similar things, but I would make the argument that education is so gosh darn more vital to the economy and America as a whole that it is fully different from car loan and credit card debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Sun reports on this person who is going to gradate from college with a mass load of debt. He wound up creating a Facebook group on the idea that all college debt needs to be eliminated. In only &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/?p=12549\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12549"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12551,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12549\/revisions\/12551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myeducationalplan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}