Student Debt Persuasive Speech

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Many will say America’s gift to my generation is happiness, is freedom, is choice, is acceptance, but does every single person in my generation have happiness, is everybody free, does everybody have choices, do we accept everybody. No. Sure we’re MORE accepting or have MORE choice than other generations but we don’t truly and fully have anything good, so what about something not so good, what about something bad.

Debt. Debt is something that is owed — or due. It is not said to be a good gift but a gift is simply something given willingly to someone without payment, no requirement of goodness about it.

There’s monetary debt, people such as college students in student debt. Maybe something as plain and simple as a credit card, a medical bill,

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