Viva la Vida asked:


I’m reading Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book, and it seems to me that for all the effort he puts into explaining his philosophy of peace, cooperation, tolerance, understanding, and self-criticism, he himself was a dictator who ruled on the principles of war, religious persecution, and single-mindedness. A similar observation: If Nicolae Ceausescu was a Communist, then why did he spend so many billions of tax dollars on building himself a palace? What is up with dictators like Mugabe, Mao, Ceausescu, and Pol Pot who are suppposed to be Communists, but still insist on hoarding all their country’s wealth and brutally oppressing opposition?

Tesoro asked:


Like if I have $1000 now gathered from working as a student for 2 years, can I use that to pay some of the loan back? Or, is it that once I start paying back loans, I can’t stop, and I must consistently pay them back every month?

Also, do student loans have minimum sums we are allowed to pay every month? Like can it be that i’m only allowed to pay if i’m paying in a minimum sum of $800 or $1000?

P.S. this is not for me, so its not like I can look over a contract or anything like that.