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Originally Posted by Chi-Town
I paid off my student loan and thought nothing about it. I just assumed that it was a thing you do. When I started to hear about all the defaults and people were saying don't bother to pay them back, I thought what deadbeats they are.
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If they have the money, I agree with you. Another of my law school stories.
I flew into the Twin Cities for the first time around August 20, 1986. What happened do you think that first night? I get into an airport van carrying a group of people. The driver and I are alone after she drops various people off at their hotels and then takes me near the University of Minnesota. She asks me what I am going to study. I say law. Which she answers by going into an extremely long spiel about how she had been a nurse with a team of surgeons and nurses whom a lawyer had been able to successfully sue for medical malpractice. She had to find a new career due to the malpractice suit against her. I have no idea if this was judgment was justified or not. I will bet this former nurse had a lot of bills she no longer could afford. Her anger though kind of gave me the impression that she had been wronged in the malpractice case. It probably happens a lot more than justice would require that the better lawyer wins in a case even if the case is not all the strong.