Economics

Nick Gillespie on Freedom Watch Tonite, Talking Student Loan Debt & Other Possible Bailouts

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I'll be on Fox Business' Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano tonight, talking about Occupy Wall Street and many protesters' demands that student loans be written down or forgiven altogether.

The show airs on Fox Business at 8pm ET. 

Last year, people took out over $100 billion in student loans according to USA Today, and the cumulative total of all student loans is expected to reach more than a $1 trillion by the end of this year.

Should student loan debt be forgiven, as many Occupy Wall Street folks want? That's what the judge and I will be talking about, along with other bailout programs pushed by President Obama and his predecessor.

I was on Freedom Watch a few weeks back, talking about Obama's jobs programs. Take a look: