Posted By thestatedtruth.com on September 7, 2010

Here is another government controlled project.  These are unbelievable statistics.  Simply beyond belief!  Credit card debt peaked at $975 billion back in September of 2008 and is now down to $826 billion. Past and current students now carry a stunning $829 billion in student loan debt.   Fact:  You are not allowed to discharge student loan debt through bankruptcy. 

Source:  New York Times

One of the more ominous statistics coming from this recession is that student loan debt has now surpassed total credit card debt in the United States.  The reason for this is based on the deep impact of the recession.  Credit card debt peak at $975 billion back in September of 2008 and is now down to $826 billion.  This is good news right?  Well the main reason for the decline has been through the rise of bankruptcies.  As this number decreased student loan debt has continued to soar and is now larger than total credit card debt.  Part of it has to do with the fact that you are not allowed to discharge student loan debt through bankruptcy.  The government is the biggest player in the student loan market but the banks are the folks dishing out the loans.  Similar to the housing bubble, when banks and government combine you usually end up with inflated prices and very wealthy bankers.  The working and middle class end up paying for the bad bets in the end with inflated prices and giant amounts of debt.

Here is the unfortunate tipping of the scales:

Source:  Mint

Past and current students carry a stunning $829 billion in student loan debt.  The cost of a college education has far outpaced the rate of inflation. 

Interesting that in 2005 when costs started skyrocketing this happened:

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