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njlib Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 12:29 PM
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C-SPAN: The State of Black America
Anyone watching? Jesse Jackson just said the President & First Lady only paid off their student loans two years ago with the proceeds from Barack Obama's book and that if it wasn't for that book, we'd now have a president who was still paying his student loans! As a 42 year old nursing student, with a son in community college, that just scares the crap out of me. Guess I'll still be paying mine out of my social security checks.....
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 01:07 PM
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1. Just tuning in! Wow!!! @ Iyanla Vanzant's story
What a story. OMG
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 02:01 PM
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6. Maxine Waters on now n/t
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REACTIVATED IN CT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 02:47 PM
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9. I missed that - tuned it too late. I hope they will replay this later n/t
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njlib Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 03:57 PM
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12. I saw that, too
Just goes to show that ANYONE can run into hard times.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 01:47 PM
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2. Watching now Michael Dyson on
I love his analysis.
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 01:52 PM
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4. I was with him until he said people in NY looked down on New Orleans
and, of course, the karma was the Wall Street crisis. Wondering where he got that analysis from?
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 02:01 PM
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7. A most unfortunate comment
although he probably meant the Wall Street bankers.
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dana_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 01:49 PM
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3. that's why I went to community college for my ADN
I'll work on a bachelor's after my kid gets going with her life (abou 3-4 years). It's ridiculous what the "system" is designed to do - to keep us in eternal debt. Ridiculous AND depressing.
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njlib Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 03:56 PM
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11. Depressing is right
I'm enrolled in an 18 month accelerated LPN program and the cost is $17,000. I'm just hoping that I'll be able to find a job when I graduate. I know everyone says healthcare/nursing is growing, but I'm still scared that I'll have gone through all this time and effort to graduate, but won't be able to find something that pays enough to live on AND repay my loans. I lost my job 2/13/09 because I'm going to school at night, so I'm really hoping things at least start to turn around by graduation, which is January 2010.
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dana_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 04:17 PM
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13. you will get a job
where are you? I know some areas are not as in need of nurses as they used to be (I live near San Francisco) but the field is growing all the time with aging of the baby boomers.

Good luck to you!
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njlib Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 04:31 PM
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14. Thank you for the encouraging words!
I'm in northwest New Jersey, about an hour away from "civilization".

I know there are more opportunities for RN's, so my plan is to continue with my schooling, while working as an LPN.
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njlib Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 04:33 PM
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15. Second panel discussion starting now
Let's see what kind of reaction Michael Steele gets...Al Sharpton is going to be on the panel, too!
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REACTIVATED IN CT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 04:47 PM
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16. That's a good plan
There may be some scholarship or tuition reimbursement opportunities once you are working as an LPN.
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njlib Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 05:09 PM
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17. I hope that's the case
I know some of my classmates are already involved in the medical field in some manner and their employers are paying all or part of their tuition. I'm hoping to get lucky enough to find an employer that will help me advance my education.
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Beavker Donating Member (784 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 02:00 PM
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5. I saw part of that.
I chuckled pretty hard at that one. I thought the parts I saw were great. Especially the things in the stimulus that will help the black population such as the training programs and such. The moderator mentioned something that is so, so true. These things just don't get talked about in the papers and on TV. Too busy covering the squable the GOP has on the Taxes not being enough or the spending too much, etc. Exactly. Media not getting to the good stuff, or the meat, just over glamourizing the fluff. Ratings.
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REACTIVATED IN CT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 02:46 PM
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8. Yes, watching it, Dyson's speech was so good I replayed
it.

I think I just spotted Michael Steele in the audience.
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njlib Donating Member (754 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-28-09 03:47 PM
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10. The second panel takes the stage at 4:30 pm EST
C-SPAN will continue its live coverage and yes, Michael Steele will be on the second panel. I want to see Cornell West. I could listen to him talk for days!! I watched the entire first panel discussion and am sure the second panel will be just as lively and interesting.

Think I'll go pooper scoop my yard while they run this CPAC garbage.....
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