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Women, “cowpersons” if you will, are becoming more common on cowboy crews. There’s never been much question that they could ride and spot sick cattle as well as a man but we’ve been kind of a chauvinistic business. They’re getting’ their chance now.

Commenter: Chase WildstarIn 1984 I attended a 2 year trade school and took out 12k to attend. It turned out to be a useless education. Even congress admitted it in Senate report 102-58. When I got my loans standard consumer protections existed, but US Dept of Education oversight was non existant. This lead to high defualt rates during the later part of the 80′s, which inturn lead to the forms of the early 90′s; reforms which were just the first of many over the next few years. Amongst other things, Standard consumer protections including bankruptcy options were removed. Government gave lenders more authority, and imposed a few regulations and requirements on the schools. Little if anything, was done to help the students with their financial problems. In 1994 I had to file chapter 7 bankrupcy due to a bad devorce, and under employment history. I later learned that my original lender also filed bankruptcy 2 days after I did. I believed these loans to be taken care of, and was thankfull my country had given me a second chance at life. Then in 2008, all of a sudden, I start getting bills for 80-90 thousand dollars for something I thought was taken care of. I was threatened with wage garnishment. I live in Michigan. Since 2000, I have worked a total of 5 out of the last 9 years. I have had 5, 7, and 11 month periods of unemployment. Michigans economy is the worse. I did not run up credit cards, I lived cash only. I am broke today, out of work yet again, but I owe no one anything other than these supposed student loans. In Feb 2008, I got laid off just weeks befor what I call an unlawful non judicial wage garnishment. I was out of work till september, when I took a job out of state. That lasted untill the middle of May 2009, now I am back home in Michigan, looking for work again and worried that I will be hunted down yet again. That may not seem as bad as some folks think it is, but when your original bill is 12k and they turn it into 80k, the monthly payment is about 2/3rds what most people take home in michigans downturning economy. A wage garnishment means you have to quit your job and find another one, because with it, you cannot pay your rent and you end up homeless, and thus jobless anyways. THAT is the worry most of us deal with every day, and its devistating. The system will not treat us fairly, and think they can take what they want from us; and due to congress’s changes to the laws, they can! And that is what is destroying so many of the students lives. That is why many are leaving the country or get so depressed they commit suicide. We need student loan reform NOW. Help the students, not the rich fat cats that are raking in millions off of collection fees and outragous interest and penalty fees.

 He was paid $400 for four weeks shooting, so things have changed a little since then. By the time of The Patriot in 2000 his pay was $25 million, while in 2004 he made a reported $210 million from The Passion Of The Christ.

Commenter: ChasI don’t mean to be disrespectful, but the two posted comments below show how and why the vast majority of student borrowers who are in over their heads with student loans find themselves in that situation. A college education is a major purchase. Be a smart consumer! Why borrow $100,000 for a degree in English?!?! How will that investment ever pay off? Why enter into a doctorate program witout researching the financing first, and why drop out with no degree after borrowing over $150,000? These stories may be nightmares, but they are nightmares of the individuals’ own making. Don’t blame the lender for giving you the money you requested.

Gold #11 – From here, head directly across the large open area to the buildings on the other side. The left most building is where you want to go, the next piece of gold is hidden at the end of a short but very dark corridor.

Commenter: Chuck AswellSo student loan interest has risen at twice the rate of inflation. We bail out the auto industry and the financial institutions…..but not the "best and brightest" who will potentially comprise the future middle class?! Nothing much is ever said about the criminal and unjustifiable (and destructive) cost of a college education. This administration and policy-makers need to spend a half a day pondering this dilemma and then provide a bit of relief to these millions of young people who have, to some degree, been victimized.

Andy was still trainin’ on Gracie as they rode across the high mountain pasture in the Uintas. He had named her Gracie with the same inversely convoluted reasoning with which U.S. senators refer to each other as “My distinguished colleague…”

Commenter: JoyThe banks and creditors don’t care about you. WHY should you care about them? Get a phone that’s prepaid. They won’t hound you again – at least not that way.

I gently pried his mouth open with a stick. There was a little blood on his mustache but it had broken his front tooth in half!

“Well, to be honest,” said the husband to his wife, “I knew our anniversary was last Sunday. I was just waitin’ to see if you remembered.”

It is estimated that each cruise visit generates up to $1million in the port-of-call’s economy.   

Miraculously you are released. You wander into a nice bedded pen with some sort of gourmet dish in the bunk (prepared by a chef who builds his recipe on a computer then looks at the manure to see if you liked it?) Blaagh!