I found this article really interesting...


http://blogs.forbes.com/...ery/?partner=contextstory

that's too big for me to read. everybody should reject debt slavery. people shouldn't have to sell their future just to survive.

many commentators on greece related news have said that greece should be kicked out of euro and some business persons have said similar things.

http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/...ory/the-facts/the-number/

"Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked into the U.S. each year, according to a 2005 report from the U.S. State Department."

ugh, why does this have a blog devoted to it? we must have 0% failure in regards to slavery. Get rid of marriage and credit then.

where the heck is my calculator? 17,500 / 304,000,000 = 5.7565789473684210526315789473684e-5, what the fark is that number? how much above 0% is that number? where the heck is my excel spread sheet program? why my computer go to sleep?

maybe if i multiply it by 100 so i can get the percentage... 0.00576% of the US population is being imported as slaves every year.

"Kevin Bales, a sociologist who serves as a consultant to the United Nations and has authored several books about modern-day slavery, estimated the number was 27 million people in his book “Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy.” The book was published in 1999."

27,000,000 / 6,000,000,000 = 0.0045 * 100 = 0.45% of the world is enslaved. maybe my math just needs work.

heh, that is not at *ALL* what the article i posted was about...

It basically says Greece should got to the EU and say "we can only pay proportionally to the rate of growth of our GDP, if you want us to pay back our debt at all"; and if they don't like that, tell them to fluff off...

ahhh. i probably just didn't feel like making a new thread for such a small number.

Seems reasonable to me

(DL's comment, not article)

hmm, good idea

http://money.cnn.com/...y.student_debt/?hpt=hp_t2

hehe, oops. Debt Slavery!

The EU was a bad idea in the first place. You'd figure those Europeans would have learned something from watchig the US.

People who lend money always have taken advantage of those who need it, but only to a point. When the needy can no longer pay, it was the lender who was stupid.