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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments: I just paid off my $22,000 loan 2 years ago. It took almost 10 years. There are very little opportunities here in NL as it is...what incentive is there for educated young people to stay here when they are forced to live hand-to-mouth for years because of student debtFlag
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Name: April Bixby on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Carla Jacobs on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Carla on Oct 25, 2006Comments: that would be great :)Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments: My wife and I have graduated from MUN approximately 7 years ago. She has a BSw and I have a BSc. We were both lucky enough to land jobs here in the province and have been only surviving because of this. When we started paying back our loans our monthly payments were $990.00. Since that time we have remortaged our house twice in order to pay off our provincial student loans. Currently our combined Canada student loans are still above $40,000.00 which takes over $600.00 bucks a month for payments. I can honestly say this severely impacts how you live each day in this province. I can only hope that you can make some small difference to help alleviate the stress and finicial burden that recent non recent graduates feel when completeing their studies. Thanks for your time.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments: I too have about $40k debt in student loans. All interest relief options used up. From what I have been told, if I make a $200 pmt a month, which I cannot afford, only $80 goes towards principal. OUTRAGEOUS! If this plan to eliminate interest is successful, I wouldn't feel robbed and could make substantial monthly payments. ThanksFlag
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Name: Erin Mackey on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Amanda Walsh on Oct 25, 2006Comments: Just like to say that soemthing seriously needs to be done about student loans. I have tried to pay off some portion of my loan only to be penalized for making too much money in the summer time (which was applied to my loans). Of course this affected the money I recieved the following semester and everyone knows that working full time and attending school full time has a serious effect on academic performance. There has to be something available to help ALL people out not just people in special circumstances. Thanks!Flag
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Name: Kayla Ridgeley on Oct 25, 2006Comments: To many people are in debt. I know personally I have a student loan that I am working really hard to pay off. But it's pretty difficult when you're a full time student and only working part-time hours getting paid $7.00/hr. Anything that would help i'll take. Thanks a lot, you're work is greatly appreciated.Flag
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Name: Kayla Ridgeley on Oct 25, 2006Comments: To many people are in debt. I know personally I have a student loan that I am working really hard to pay off. But it's pretty difficult when you're a full time student and only working part-time hours getting paid $7.00/hr. Anything that would help i'll take. Thanks a lot, you're work is greatly appreciated.Flag
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Name: Luke Joyce on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Charlene Dalton on Oct 25, 2006Comments: I have no qualms paying my student loan. I signed the agreements and was able finance my education. I consider myself fortunate. I am working here in the province since I graduated. I have always been able to make the minimum payment on my student loans. However, it will total 14 years of payments. It will take three times as long to pay for my degree as it took to complete. These are supposed to be our prime years, but unlike previous generations many of us are financially stunted for a decade or more by debt because we dared to try and create productive fulfilling lives for ourselves. A society can not grow and create without an educated population. Elimination of interest paid to government will encourage us to stay and allow us to contribute greater to the provincial economy. Education should not be a punishment.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Calvin Rose on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Paul Bouzane on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Tony Parr on Oct 25, 2006Comments: You got my support 110%. Have been out of school for 7 years and paying my loans every month. Can honestly say that I have paid close to the same amount on the interest as I have on the principal. Pathethic isn't it. Wish you all the luck with this petition.Flag
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Name: John Strowbridge on Oct 25, 2006Comments: Great idea for this petition. I had to leave the province for a job, and when i applied for interest relief, they told me I make too much money. They dont factor into account all the bills I have to pay and the cost of living, so making the payments on my loan become more difficult over time.Flag
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Name: Jennifer Barrett on Oct 25, 2006Comments: Everyone I know is in debt because of tuition.Flag
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Name: Tim Sheppard on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments: Even with the interest gone I still have a huge student loan debt. I need help!Flag
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Name: Brian Hillier on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Corinne Conway on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Angeila Greene on Oct 25, 2006Comments: $592 is an extreme amount to have to pay. You can't live in it, it doesn't keep in you warm, it doesn't feed you and without an education, job searching is extremely difficult without it. My family totaly supports you and hopes that you are succesfull in your missionFlag
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Name: Shauna Hollett on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Sandra Noseworthy on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments: Keep our peeps here! Lose the student debt!!!Flag
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Name: Erica Lake on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Mark Snow on Oct 25, 2006Comments: My wife and I both have large student debts through government student loans (not counting money borrowed through bank loans incurred to supplement the short-comings of the provincial and federeal student loans of the time). Lower salaries in this province as compared to provinces like Alberta, higher taxes and large debt incurred from obtaining an education makes it very difficult to live and work in Newfoundland, and ignore the lure of much better pay for the same amount/quality of work in flourishing western provinces. My wife and I both attended Memorial University during the years where Memorial University tuition costs were at their highest, and increasing every year we attended, with the lowest number and funds distributed for scholarships. Following graduation with my first degree, I returned to complete a $12,000 (tuition only) IT diploma where the amount I received in student loans didn't even cover the tuition, let alone books, materials, living expenses, food, clothes and other necessities. Upon graduation from my Bachelor degree and my diploma, or my wife's B. Comm (co-operative) degree, there were no incentive plans for graduating on time (which we did do), we received no debt reduction, or elimination of provincial debt because we acheived high marks, and passed our courses (which we did do). The highest debt, the highest taxes, the least amount of benefit or aid. We are paying back MORE THAN DOUBLE the amount of funding we borrowed. It is extremely hard for young individuals, couples, and families to get on their feet, when atrocious amounts of debt, that were incurred by obtaining an education, repeatedly knocks us on our behinds month after month. It really is no wonder the population of Newfoundland is declining, more people are moving away to get jobs where the salary outweighs the debt, and taxes are lower. In addition, the people who do stay in Newfoundland and Labrador are waiting longer to have kids, trying to pay down their educational debt, if they end up having them at all. Most are living from paycheck to paycheck. The post-secondary graduates of today are, in my opinion, in SLIGHTLY better shape than the graduates of 5 or 6 years ago as there are small incentives and aid in place, but they are still incurring too much debt, and not nearly enough opportunity in our province. There may be several solutions, or a combination of solutions - we need to find them. Reduce taxes, award significant tax refunds to graduates for the first 5 years after graduating (making it retro-active for those who have been out of school for 5 years or more), etc. There's also no reason why the Federal government, with it's enormous surplus can not become engaged in this solution. Why not reduce income taxes for new graduates for a period of 5 years (retro-active to graduates who have significant debt who have been in the work force for 5 years or more), or apply income taxes paid by graduates to federal student loans, reduce or eliminate interest, tax refunds, incentives for staying in Newfoundland and Labrador, etc. I am sure there are numerous solutions available to us if we just look for them and work together. I implore the provinical government to follow through on this initiative to reduce student debt and to help their young work force to live a better life than paycheck to paycheck, and to be able to better support our families and the Newfoundland economy. It IS the right thing to do. Let's make the future of our province a bright, exciting future.Flag
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Name: Robert Greenland on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: John F. Fewer on Oct 25, 2006Comments: Due to intrest, I still owe $17,000 on my $23,000 student loan debt 9 years after completeing post sec education. I have made no dent in my debt. I am currently paying intrest only back as I cannot afford to pay the full monthly amount back. I have considered moving elsewhere also as pay rates in my industry in other provinces far exceed anything in NL. A collegue of mine left NL making 32K, now making almost 68K in Nova Scotia. He just bought his first house at 26. I'm 34 and still renting. For years private schools have gouged students. For years, students who attended private colleges have been denied decent, secure "government" jobs because they did not attend CONA. It's a well known fact. No CONA 3 yr program, resume gets shredded. No wonder almost no one bothers to stay in this province.Flag
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Name: Charlene Ward on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments: i am like yourself. My student debt is approximately $47,000, monthly payments for student loans total $515/month. You'd think that's bad enough, but that's actually the minimum payment arrangements i could make! I've been paying my loans for almost 5 years, and the overall balance has only decreased by a couple thousand dollars.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments: i am like yourself. My student debt is approximately $47,000, monthly payments for student loans total $515/month. You'd think that's bad enough, but that's actually the minimum payment arrangements i could make! I've been paying my loans for almost 5 years, and the overall balance has only decreased by a couple thousand dollars.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments: I would love to not pay interest on my student loans. I owe 45000 when I graduated in 1999 and I still owe 22000. The government did give me a check for around 5600 due to a program back then to reduce provincial student loans. Since 1999 I have paid about 15000 in interest. I am living in NF since 2000 and it is a struggle to save anything for retirement. Places like Alberta, Ontario and internationally parts of Asia are a great solution for this. How can they expect to keep people here (myself included) if wage increases can't keep up with the cost of living. I'll gladly meet with Government anytime to discuss.Flag
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Name: Christina on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Terri Cassell on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Nikki Cuff on Oct 25, 2006Comments: My husband and I pay more to student loans then we do our mortgage payment!!! What does that say about the money we COULD be spending in THIS province and on OUR family What alternative do we have to student loans Work in a fish plant for 10 years to save enough to go to school without taking a loan!! The interest is a killer - The last time I called the electronic voice advised me I'm paying nearly $3 a day in interest! I feel bad when I get a coffee at Tim's for $1.50! Something has got to give, we'll get the loans paid off only a few years before most of our parents would consider retirement age! We'll all be forced to work till we're 70!!!Flag
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Name: Pamela Forsey on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Ryan Hillier on Oct 25, 2006Comments: Way to go Travis, One spark is all it takes to make fire. Keep it up!!!Flag
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Name: Amanda Stacey on Oct 25, 2006Comments: Travis keep it up. Hopefully it will come true for you. Don`t stop until you get it. Everyone is rooting for youFlag
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Name: Natasha Dalton on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Karen on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Kate Carter on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Leann Wiscombe on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag
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Name: Tammy Roche on Oct 25, 2006Comments:Flag