It defies logic that protections against predatory debt collection practices don't apply to debt collectors hired by the federal government.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it's not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one.
Governments can inflate their way out of debt, but that has consequences, doesn't it?
To suggest that we can't pay our debts - that's absolutely not true.
There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.
No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.
The call for debt cancellation is welcome, but debt does not just go away.
Morally bankrupt wage practices and laws cannot hold.
You don't set up an implicit promise from the federal government that everybody is getting bailed out.
There's no debt limit in the Constitution.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.