Erin Larkins, a graduate student at Columbia University who says she and her boyfriend have $130,000 combined in student loan debt, was among the thousands of protesters on the bridge. She said a friend persuaded her to join the march and she's glad she did.
"I don't think we're asking for much, just to wake up every morning not worrying whether we can pay the rent, or whether our next meal will be rice and beans again," Larkins wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
Uh maybe she should have gotten a job?
Or gone to a cheaper university?
Or maybe she or her boyfriend should flip a coin and then decide which one will quit their cushy graduate schooling and go to work while putting the other one through?
I mean, when our Pinoys can find jobs teaching school in the USA, working as caretakers/nurses, or working in the oil shale industry in Alberta Canada, one suspects that these "kids" are just not trying very hard to grow up...
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