The White House occupant cannot afford to lose the little support he has left from the fractured sheeple masses and special interest groups.
With polling collapsing Biden’s influence on an almost daily basis, Chief of Staff Ron Klain deployed the puppy strategy. Not surprisingly that fell flatter than curling ice, and making matters worse, people realized to the Biden family dogs are politically disposable tools for optics only. Add on the rebuke of the Build Back Better spending boondoggle and, well, there’s panic in the corps.
According to the White House, the U.S. economy is doing great, things are perfect and getting better. The economy is doing so well, students can’t afford or find jobs to pay back their loans. Wait a min.., wha… huh?
WHITE HOUSE – […] “today my Administration is extending the pause on federal student loan repayments for an additional 90 days — through May 1, 2022 — as we manage the ongoing pandemic and further strengthen our economic recovery. Meanwhile, the Department of Education will continue working with borrowers to ensure they have the support they need to transition smoothly back into repayment and advance economic stability for their own households and for our nation.” (read more)
Pay no attention to the conflicted messaging. You are not allowed to ask the question: if the economy is so great, then why do former college students need even more time to start paying back their loans? Remember, in order for moonbat Democats to continue advancing their insane ideology, they must pretend not to know things.
We have another three months before we need to find a job, cool.
Is this in response to Bidung’s low poll numbers with the young that Sundance wrote about ?
Well, there was a time when you woke up in the morning and only had to have the weather report to figure out what you had to wear.
Now you have to listen to the covid report to catch the latest mandate and how many masks you need to get through your day.
It’s all so confusing and we know you need more time. That is why we came up with the PBB plan, Pay Back Better!
I would allow students to discharge their student loans…then dump the burden of debt on the colleges and let them all go under. The smart colleges would survive and the predatory push to send kids into indoctrination make work camps where they also become financial slaves to the state would end. I have no problem with this, and at this point most people should be reading Clay Christensen’s Disrupting Class if they want to be on the cutting edge of education.
The Ivy League colleges sit on endowments worth hundreds of $Billions.
Since law doesn’t matter, transfer the debt onto those endowments and then force the colleges to try to collect on their own.
Of course, the colleges will scream and cry racist but if the law is meaningless to the left, that sets the standards for retaliation.
I think overall down the road it’s also the longterm pragmatic thing to do. There are too many colleges and it’s become more of an industry designed to nickel and dime people by wasting their time and money taking courses that have nothing to do with their career. People like to point out that “feminism studies” and the like are worthless but more likely than not the colleges are forcing people to take these courses.
These people in many cases are victims of their naivety in thinking the “system” had their best interests at heart. It didn’t. Removing the debt from them commiserate with going back to Trump’s MAGA economics will let a lot of them understand what is really going on and turn their lives around. Some of them won’t, but overtime it’s probably the best thing to do.
P:eople could probably get through college in 2 years if they didn’t have to take all those BS courses and forget about how much money is spent on BS courses.
In many countries, professional degrees (Medical, Legal, Dental, etc.) Studies begin at age 18 . Always a big surprise to US tourists to see very ‘young’ professionals practicing in these respective fields. They don’t waste time with courses in the way that do not apply to their chosen path. They plan to be ‘in practice’ during their 20’s. The Universities recognize this eagerness to learn…fast.
looking back at HS yearbooks (1932-1942 from various family members), young people could start “a life” with actual respectable livelihoods, buy a little house, get married, start a family and/or continue on to a higher education without incurring massive debt.
Bingo! Nail on head! Not to mention that those BS courses are where the indoctrination occurs.
I think just as with k-12, the only way to address this is with creating alternative paths, and voting with our feet.
Alternatives could include trade school, online Universities, etc.
But, they would have to scrupulously not take ANY Federal funds, in order to be exempt from the gross overmanagement dictates of Big Brother.
Like many areas, SOME Parents and their kids are beginning to “wake up” to the mess that “higher education” has become, but I fear not nearly enough.
The false narrative that “to have a good life, you MUST have a college education”, that “EVERYONE MUST have a college education has been so inculcated into our society, that it will be difficult to change at this point.
Last I knew, Hillsdale College refuses all federal funds.
What will you earn with your degree? What will we spend to get you there? What is your end of the deal?
If we went back to offering technical and trade programs in high schools, I think the kids would embrace it very naturally. It’s the parents I expect would balk. Many a well meaning parent has pushed a kid to go to college who had not the desire, aptitude or maturity for college.
Do you remember back in 2009 when the only construction cranes you saw were on college campuses? They don’t lack for money even in the worst of times. They knew they could build to their hearts’ content because they had a steady supply of cash coming in no matter what.
Your dealing with the same money lenders who had Christ killed. Good luck.
when you declare bankruptcy, you don’t get to keep the house & car you haven’t paid for…
…so, you can discharge that student loan debt if you give back the degree
The largest universities are public. The taxpayer is going to foot the bill one way or another.
Exactly!! Always a thrill up my leg to consider I’m ultimately paying for somebody else’s kids beer & dope money
“I would allow students to discharge their student loans”
Why not let them discharge their car loans and house mortgages too? And while were at it, why don’t we let everyone discharge any loans they don’t feel like paying back?
bankruptcy. we just have to give us our college degree, and get a job that doesnt require it
4 more years of brainwashing
Greg,
Speaking of car loans. You know where the majority of low interest student loan money went back in the 80’s? To buy cars. Yep. Beautiful new cars.
I used my loan to pay my tuition and then as soon as I graduated started paying it back. Took 5 years to pay it all back. That was a lot of ramen noodles with cabbage meals.
I’m tired of listening to these snowflake kids whine about their student debt. Payback your dam loans.
For the record, the next part of Bob’s quote was “…then dump the burden of debt on the colleges”
I mostly agree with Bob, but add some caveats. Only for students who have been swindled. Regardless of how they paid. Either a refund, or the college forgives debt, whichever applies.
Colleges that don’t prey on desperate people, by falsely representing their degrees, or prey on them by requiring and charging for classes that are not related to the degree… those Colleges, that aren’t run by swindlers wouldn’t need to set things right because they didn’t commit any wrong in the first place.
As for car loans, mortgages, etc. If they swindle someone, they should set it right. If they don’t, their good.
College isn’t $700 a semester anymore Grandpa.
George Bush’s Bankruptcy Reform Act in 2005 eliminated discharging student loans in personal bankruptcy. So instead of having to consider the student loan applicant’s credit worthiness, lenders could issue student loans like candy with high interest rates too, because Uncle Sugar aka Uncle Sam would pay the lender if the borrower defaulted. Thus the sky high tuition started because everyone and their mother was going to college, most of whom getting useless liberal arts degrees, without any care about cost because the student could borrow as much as they wanted/needed. Then the Kenyan federalized the student loan industry and that is where we are now. A globalist republican started this mess and the Kenyan exacerbated it. In the ’90’s one could discharge a student loan through bankruptcy but there was a time frame of when they could, i.e. they had to be out of school for something like 7-8 years before they could file so as to prevent one from graduating then automatically declaring bankruptcy.
You’ve inadvertently explained why the price of everything subsidized by government rises. Medical care is another fine example of this phenomenon.
If colleges only taught legitimate curriculae (no touchy feely, garbage degrees that fully qualify graduates to flip burgers at Mickey D’s) and only accepted students who qualified academically, there wouldn’t be these masses of student debt. I realize they like perpetual construction and they love adding 25 “new” degree programs every year (and, yes, we understand the “new” programs is code for unqualified students in useless programs).
I could favor the debt being at least partially dumped back on the universities that are so good that they accept students who can actually make up to 450 on the SAT Math/Verbal. My 3rd and 4th grade grandchildren can do that now! I have personally witnessed seniors fill out applications in ink because they couldn’t or wouldn’t read USE A NO. 2 PENCIL ONLY and are graduating from high school with a 1.0 GPA. I knew they weren’t qualified for college. Unfortunately, the idiots in Admissions had no clue!
For whatever reason, too many politicians have this idea that everyone qualifies for a 4 year degree. THEY are the ones who caused wacko majors to be formed and “graduate” college students. What are they qualified to do? 1) Flip burgers 2) Stock shelves 3) Babysit. Not much else!! Never thought I would agree with Bernie Sanders on anything but these same students would have been so much better off in a community college learning a trade. Before the whiners start, have any of you hired a plumber or electrician lately? $15/hour won’t even get them out of the office door. That is where they can make serious money and don’t need a useless sheepskin that only saddles them with debt and makes them think they have a “degree” when all they have done is feed “da greed” of da college!
I always earned more money of my tech school education than I ever did with degree.
I do have a problem with this – on behalf of all those students who actually honored their loan commitments and paid off their loans. Do they get a refund?
I think many people should get refunds. And that not all student loans should be forgiven.
It depends. If the college made you pay for classes unrelated to your degree, you should get a refund for those classes. Or that amount forgiven from student loan (with College, not tax payer, taking it in the wallet.)
As well as the immigrants who legally paid with a time and money to became U.S. citizens
I’ll agree with forgiving student debt so long as they forgive it retroactively for everyone who ever paid it.
That picture tells you all you need to know why we have problems getting folks to peel the scales from their eyes.
Or go to work. Much more fun to stick your face in the phone.
Joe Biden powered by the Klain Brain.
Klu Klux Klain
By all means, let’s forgive the newest batch of communists for the foolish and wasted loans they took out to become even more moronic.
Meanwhile, my natural gas bill is 51% higher than last year’s for the same usage at the same temperature.
Thanks, Brandon.
What is going to be the economic impact when all those loans have to be pay back and that money is sucked out of the economy? Paying back student loans is economic violence!
Mainstream Democrat theory is now anarchism. We are being lead by an oligarchy of anarchists.
The reason why millionaires strive to be billionaires is the forlorn hope that something will remain.
See Zimbabwe. See Venezuela.
Plant turnips.
Small satisfaction, but in Zimbabwe, Venezuela the wealthy either LEFT, and took their $ with them, or perished.
Maybe this is why Billionaires are investing in Space travel; they know when the U.S . goes the way of Venezuela, there will be NO WHERE (on THIS earth, at any rate) for them to run.
You should be heating with solar panels and a windmill. Try it … it worked so well for Texas last winter.
Mid-terms are coming up. It’ll be extended again.
Yet no student loan forgiveness the puppet promised. I don’t think this is going to drive up voter turnout compared to the tsunami of rage that is building up.
They have no intention of forgiving student loans. That would actually help Americans.
So, the just graduated student, who can’t get a job, is told uncle sammy will postpone collecting the debt for their worthless college degree,…meanwhile the price of food, gas, etc is going up every day.
Yeah, Brandon, that and your new puppy will get them to vote for you!
Funny how the FJB chants seemed to START at College sporting events,…
You are perfectly describing a good example of administrative freefall. This happens when hidden agendas are more important than productive policy decisions.
And he has to tell them, yet again, to get shot and boosted.
I didn’t think they were allowed to be in school or at work unless all of that was already taken care of.
This has helped us tremendously. We have been able to pay off seven (yes seven!) loans in the past two years. We will be able to pay off a couple more now. Hope others are smart and consolidating their payment and not just letting it sit there.
I’m ready to pull the trigger on paying all my loans off at this point, once the forbearance ends.
Unfortunately gingergal, most are NOT in or of the mindset of going out of debt.
The populace has been brainwashed into: Instant gratification, keeping up with the Jones, Smiths whoever, living beyond ones means etc.
There is almost nothing like the freedom of debt free.
AMEN!!!!
We kicked the habit of debt, 25 years ago, and have NEVER regretted it.
As doing so forces you to “live within your means” the next step is to find ways to LOWER your monthly expences, without sacrificing quality of life.
We INVEST $ in one time purchases, that will permanently lower our monthly expences, have been doing that for years.
We have around $1000 “left over” every month, after we pay for all our neccesary expences, even though our income is quite modest.
And, we continue to invest that “extra” $ in things which will further lower our monthly expences.
Its a gradual process, and we are now reaping the benefits, of following this coarse for many years, and find that we actually improve our life, with each change.
We drink clean, clear water, breathe fresh, unpolluted air, look to the horizon in all directions without our view being obscured by man made structures, we eat well, we have very little stress, we laugh often and cherish our life.
Bravo sir!
Now that’s living the ‘American dream’ as far as I’m concerned!
Hmmm, 90 day extension to May 1st, 2022? So basically, in 1 1/2 months, they are going to extend!
When was the last time anyone here looked at the job requirements for an entry-level job on Indeed?
Scrolled through Millennial-inhabited message boards/forums?
Spoke to a Millennial face-to-face without entering the conversation with a chip on your shoulder?
Actually listened to anything of the younger generation had to say?
Everyone here is so shocked by, so contemptuous of, everyone under 40. When was the last time the conservatives, writ large, bothered to see us as anything but a problem?
Wasn’t the Millennials who brought us “Free love” and the drug addiction of the 60s.
Wasn’t the Millennials who brought us BJ Clinton.
Wasn’t the Millennials who brought us “sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll” of the 80s.
Wasn’t the Millennials who started the massive push to go to college.
But boy do the Millennials get blamed for the current situation.
What on earth are you blithering on about? Who took on the freaking student loan debt to take worthless courses? Are you responsible for anything in your own life, or have you just been taught very well how to be a victim? Why should anyone listen to anything you have to say unless you have something valuable to provide? It seems all you are doing is whining and making excuses to blame others for your own situation. Grow up!
i say – make the loan amount – the true cost of what school should have cost. if its $40,000 a year then so be it.
that would be a good start.
Their parents–of all political and ideological persuasions–expected and guided those 18 to 22 year olds to do it and stood over their shoulders while they signed the promissory notes. Between globalist offshoring of jobs and H1b visas, many didn’t stand a chance of landing a decent job in their course of study. Even if that course of study was in a field other than retail clerk or burger flipper.
Sad thing is, many degree holders are stuck at minimum wage jobs. Not enough job openings for everyone with a degree in their field.
Very interesting sort of reaction. =) Answer my questions and I’ll answer yours.
I get on fine with Millennials. I often work with and for people who are 15+ years younger than me — I have no problem with it — thankfully I like them and we have mutual respect.
You’re one of the rare ones. Thank you.
Don’t worry, older folks have been carping about younger generations since Cain and Able.
And vice versa.
or before!!!!
Don’t take it too hard, it’s just the natural way life works.
Every generation says they will not make the mistakes their parents made then blames the next generation, that they raised, for not living up to their expectations.
Watch the movie Bye Bye Birdie and you’ll notice that the Greatest Generation blamed their children, the Baby Boomers.
Example:
The parents of the Greatest Generation didn’t understand them either. Jitterbug? Dr. Benjamin Spock? Bah Humbug!
I sued to think Mom and Dad were always ab it over the top at times. I’d give my left arm for some of their advice today.
As a so-called “Baby Boomer,” I can sympathize with anyone who does not like being stereotyped as a member of any particular generation. While many may fit the descriptions assigned, many do not. I consider myself to be one of the latter. If that is true of you also, don’t stop letting it be known. That is the only way you can survive with your independence and individualism intact.
I was always taught from a very young age not to join the crowd; to not do something just because everyone else did it.
True story…
When I was in the 12th grade, five of my best friends and I decided to ride together to an away basketball game. The driver and two others were sitting in the front seat. Myself and two more were in the back, with me in the middle.
All five of my friends thought it was cool to smoke those little wood tip cigars that were popular back in the day. I think they were called cigarillos. We stopped at a convenience store on the way out of town and they all went in to buy some to smoke on the way down the road. I didn’t smoke; so, I was perfectly content to wait in the car.
As soon as they all got back in the car and we started out, they all started smoking. The two on either side of me started leaning over in front of me blowing smoke in each other’s face. After about the third time smoke was passed across in front of me, I put my hands up to block them and said, “You guys know I don’t smoke; but, if you want to blow smoke in each other’s face, that’s fine with me. But, the first one who blows smoke in my face is going to get a face full of fist.”
I had no sooner got the words out of my mouth when my friend who was sitting in the middle up front turned around and deliberately blew a big puff of smoke right in my face. Before I even thought about what I was doing, I threw a punch and hit him square in the mouth before he could get turned back around. He said, “Damn it, JT, you bloodied my lip!”
A couple of the other guys laughed at him and said, “Well, he JUST TOLD you not to do that!” He didn’t have a handkerchief and the other guys either didn’t have one or wouldn’t loan him theirs; so, I gave him mine to wipe off the blood. lol
After that night, nothing was ever mentioned about that ever again that I know of. But, it just so happened that the friend whose lip I busted was the son of one of the local bankers in our small middle Georgia town of 7,500 population. After we all graduated from high school, he eventually became the loan officer and later the president of his family’s bank.
My family had always banked with their only competitor in town; but, after I bought my first car, a 1968 GTX convertible, he asked me why I hadn’t borrowed the money to pay for it from hum. I told him that I had paid cash for the car and so I didn’t need to borrow the money. He then invited me to do business with them if I ever did need a loan; and, later, I did so several times.
Interestingly, any time I asked him for a loan, he always just asked a single question, “How much do you need, JT?”
Apparently, he learned that night on the way to the basketball game that if I said I was going to do something, I would do it; even, at the potential risk of losing a friend.
I guess the point of my story might be that if you remain true to yourself, stay independent, say what you mean and mean what you say, all without worrying about what others say or think (even your best friends), everything will usually turn out well.
Thank you for the story, it made me smile.
I tend to make myself wildly unpopular with both the Boomers and the Millennials. I tell the older generations they’re out-of-touch with their kids, then I turn around and tell the offspring that they’re adults and to act like it. I hold to traditional values and am very vocal about it, but I also refuse to just quietly accept it as my generation is blamed for the messes made by our parents (generally speaking.)
I’m glad you enjoyed my story. Maybe someday, I’ll post the one about how I found out there was no Santa Claus when I was three years old but managed to keep the secret from my older brother until I was about eight and he was ten… lol
Hummm… It IS almost Christmas… Maybe that would be a good one for Christmas Eve! So, if it sounds interesting, look for it Friday night on the Friday December 24th – Open Thread…
I’ll see you there. 😀
connecting the dots from the inauguration speech…
forced
conformity, or compliance, or control, or wasteful spending
is how they interpret building back better (but backwards)
‘unity’… ‘uniting’…’united’ ?
Some things are self-evident.
Re-distributing the country’s wealth has gone far beyond what is politically popular.
At this point, the leftists who dominate the Biden Administration regard the only moral and appropriate policies as those that re-distribute the nation’s bounty.
The Corporatists who have seized the levers of America may not be able to comprehend that they have entered into an unholy bargain with communists. Their partners within the federal bureaucracy hate the rich, hate capitalism, and hate America. I fear that Donald Trump, with his corporate background, couldn’t comprehend the sinister Marxists he had all around him.
Likewise, these leftists have descended, devolved into anarchism. Burn it all down. If something better arises from the ashes, good. If not, the destruction of the evil of America is progress. The mayor of Chicago believes this, but can a sane person see it?
It IS difficult to comprehend the mindset, of those in corporate boardrooms, those with wealth and therefore power, to ally themselves with power addicted marxists, who will undoubtedly, eventually “hang the rich”.
The wealthy have been insulated, by their wealth, for so long that they just can’t concieve of a time when they will be pulled from their beds, shot in the head and dumped, as their wealth, power and lives are taken by the marxists, this too, we have seen before.
The list is long. South Africa right now its happening to. It was once a First World country, it no longer is after their version of Affirmative Action Democracy was installed there. Gupta crime cartel is running it now
I’m surprised they haven’t ordered OSHA to declare student loans a public heath threat and mandate that employers pay the loans off…
loan forgiveness for 1 year of service hunting down the unvaccinated.
😮 Don’t give them any ideas!
Biden dropping his dog in favour of a puppy for a PR stunt is stunningly stupid!
Everyone knows that a dog is man’s best friend. What heartless individual could ever lose their dog for a fashionable puppy replacement?
Oh yea. Biden is heartless. And he really is that vain.
I wish Tucker would do a segment on just how heartless it is for a man to dump his dog.
Biden et al are pure filth.
DD
Hey, at least now there’s a “commander” in the oval office
Word is the dog BIT Biden’s Secret Service detail eight days in a row. So yeah, the big dog had to go.
That picture of Klain is perfect. All of these Democrat staffers always look like disgusting slugs.
And you are seeing inside them as well. The same inside and out I find.
cheaper than canceling the loans that the progressives are dangling out there.
Example of what will happen with BBB welfare programs. Welfare programs never end. In my opinion this rolling extension of student loan repayments will lead to forgiveness. My point is really about what will happen to BBB welfare but student loans became out of control when the government took it over in 2010. The government never cares about taxpayer money and never say no.
Yep. Following the same route as Biden’s “paths to citizenship”: Start with free stuff, forgive its costs (by passing it off to the earners in the economy), then skate home free.
Just in the past week the under 30 y/o support for the Brandon administration in POTUS popularity polling was shown to be the most negative group. The focus reason is that most are indebted with student loans.
Large student debt is best seen as a symptom of the problem. The causative agent is the complete out of proportion cost level of university level education. Problem focus must be directed at the institutions. The ridiculous debt load is unsustainable in the market place of employment for the certificates issued. The institutions should share the consequences of any debt that is forgiven or left unpaid.
The indebted youth must be held to account for the delusional conduct of thinking the schools offered fair value. The schools need to be held account for running a ponzi scheme that USA government underwrote.
“The road to heel, is paved with good intentions”, but sealed with regulations.”
It started with the G.I. BILL, passed after WW2.
SOME, (but not call by any means!) of the returning G.I.’s had put off college, to serve their country.
So, it was “only right” that a greatful nation should see they gotva college education, even those who, had there been no War, wouldn’t have gone to College, but would have taken over Dads hardware store, dairy or plumbing business.
And, SURE “help them out” with Govt financing, to buy their first home.
And, by increasing demand, the costvof both college educations and homes rose, consistently at a faster rate than inflation.
I worked for a contractor; in 1957, he built a tract if “unfinished” homes. At a time when new homes were costing around $10,000, he sold them for $6000.
They had finished concrete slab floors, no carpet or tile.
They only had sheetrock behind the cabinets, so that the cabinets could be hung.
They had all plumbing and electric and insulation completed, but no appliances.
The homeowner could complete the house, themself. They could initially just paint the concrete floors, and later (as they could afford it) install carpet and tile.
Today, no new home can qualify for a loan without carpeting, tile orcwood floors, washer, dryer, dishwasher, garbage disposal, etc.
The appliance manufacturers, carpet manufactureres, etc. lobbied Congress.
Similarly, University education changed, with many of the changes dictated by Federal regulations.
Trans men being allowed to compete in WOMENS Sports, for example.
What PDJT said about “woke” really applies to Congress; anything they touch, turns to sh*t.
We can not unfund Congress, the oft stated strategy of fiscal Conservatives.
Congress controls the purse.
And, siezing control of Congress, away from those who control it now, is almost impossible (they have made it so, just look at the Tea Party).
All that is left to us, is taking BACK the Power Congress and the administrative State Congress birthed, by an aggressive assertion of States rights.
In selective “Red States”, we can aggressively pursue election integrity, and it is far easier to exert pressure on local and State gov., than on the Federal behemoth.
Get strong Governors, Sos’s and AG’s in office, and then support/encourage them to aggressively assert States rights.
While we all applaud Desantis’s efforts to date, his assertion of States rights has actually been fairly meek, in comparison to the huge potential he has, to reduce the power and influence of the Federal govt.
And, as we saw with the MJ laws, once one State establishes that a Federal law has no teeth, others can and will follow.
FAR to many Federal laws, rules and regulations for a Federal govt that was originally bound by the Constitutional limits on its Power.
US CORP went bankrupt on 15 December. Again. Lawfully, they’re not even allowed to collect revenue, let alone borrow or spend any. That’s the real reason why Davos was cancelled. No money to beg, borrow, or steal. The whole wretched lot of them are BROKE.
Davos was cancelled?! Now what am I gonna do with these MOABS?
So Baghdad Bob now works as an advisor to old Joe.
As this was their intention from the first day of this maladministration, these scurrilous wretched excuses for human beings can hardly feign surprise that their narrative…that this economy and all the people who are suffering from it in fact have never had it better…is collapsing like a sand sculpture when the ocean waves hit it.
How can they be anywhere near panic when this malfeasance was planned from the beginning and when the results of malevolence and ignorance could be nothing more than what they are.
Are these Marxist ideologues that stupid? And yes, that is a rhetorical question. Panicky people do even more stupid things. Look out below (that’s us).
This pathetic administration and its equally pathetically lethargic economy. It’s not the bogus pandemic idiot, it’s the incompetents you have making believe they can run the economy, when they’d be challenged running a lemonade stand.
maybe if they called it a spending boonDOGGY, that might help
Since they’re giving away FREE MONEY maybe we don’t have to pay our property taxes on time?
‘Equity’ is always stuff that some other guy doesn’t want to pay for.
Fwiw
Sooo…neolibs & neocons united when it come with any issue to deal with Russia…hmmm..sw*nes
Send me another 2 K. Help the economy roar!! F J B!
Omar and her clown show are right: Student loans are policy violence.
So let’s get the government out of the horrific student loan business.
I mean, if it is policy violence how can they justify continuing it?
Part of Lyndon Johnson’s ‘War on Poverty’. More wasted taxpayer dollars on social welfare programs. Make a total Boondoggle out of it, and then determine the only fix is to make it ‘free’. God help us.
Johnson’s legacy is adding up: War on Poverty AND The Great Society … between them, the black middle class was eliminated and three generations of single-parented kids were dumped onto the streets to try to survive by whatever means necessary. Still waiting for someone to convince me that progressives are not racists at heart.
Ron Klain’s new version of his reset button, coming soon: everytime you hit the button, it buzzes and then inexplicably a voice shouts out: “Food Fight!” . . . or you can get one with Major barking . . . great for parties, especially watch parties during Presidential press conferences . . . impress all your friends, be the first!
Another warning sign; the abuser tells you that ‘you made him/her do it’ as in ‘I didn’t want to lock down or create a passport but you selfish people wouldn’t take the shot.’
“I’m sorry, it will never happen again.”
“But, you did that again and now we have to get another shot and we have return to wearing the masks indoors.”
Ron Klain looks like he literally eats every bad idea he’s ever rolled out.
Note the photo : All the genius examples with their eyes on the high tech devices in their hands……………….are going downhill. Let’s Go Brandon.
All right … I want to be the Contrarian here, and CHALLENGE these “loans!”
What, exactly, does a college physically consist of, that an elementary school does not? Answer: nothing. “Classrooms, teachers, bathrooms, snack machines, night watchmen.”
Wall Street concocted this entire thing once they realized they could no longer “securitize”
subprimeworthless mortgages. They first arranged that these debts could not be discharged in bankruptcy, then proceeded to sell trillions of dollars worth of “securities.” But I do not see college professors driving Lamborghinis.If each and every student is now in hock to the tune of a quarter million dollars, to attend a public(!) university, please tell me where all that money is actually going? Does the school actually receive it? I have my doubts.
Public universities, in particular, were to be “non-profit.” The goal was always to provide affordable access to: “13th-16th grades.”
A student should never be required to pay more than it actually costs to provide what he walks out the door with. A benevolent candy company provided me with the very same sheepskin, as an “out of state” student, for $13K. “In state” was a third of that. Guess what: the school hasn’t changed a bit. Neither have the ACTUAL COSTS of running it.
Education, like any and every other business proposition, must be FAIR.
Interesting point. I will have to start pointing out the comparisons between college and elementary schools.
Is it just me, or does that Ron guy just ooze sleaze from every pore?
I don’t like governments tweaking contracts, but they do. So cancel the debt (a real cancellation, not one taxpayers absorb) and no one will loan to students ever again. Maybe colleges will necessarily close. We’ll do fine learning in apprenticeships. It won’t be the end of the world.
Mike Rowe for Secretary of Education ( as long as we continue to have that stupid cabinet post).
Lol -> “flatter than curling ice”.
Daily Reminder: These people were NOT Elected.
But German Shepherds bite, and he’s hardly a puppy.
How many coherent conversations do you think they muster from Puddin Head? Do they wait for everything, someone is in control, How long does it take to get thru to Puddin, he snaps at everyone, crotchety old F. staff is afraid of him, one banana peel away from the grave, Tuff talk falls weak from a walking skeleton.
Being indoctrinated to a lifetime of voting Democrat is a more valuable commodity to the Democrats than the loan money.
So what is a liberal willing to pay for a vote nowadays? If we are to put a total on it I would say about $3500.00 per vote, minimum.
what do you think, share your opinion on the cost per vote.
It’s so good I can’t wait for six dollar gas so it can be even better.
January 6 political prisoner in Pinellas County FL, Jeremy Brown on the phone with Stew Peters about the FBI persecution.
https://rumble.com/vr99e8-live-from-jail-j6-political-prisoner-shocking-va-nurse-crushes-covid-measur.html
saying the same thing that Sundance says – “No” is the correct answer to the corrupt federal government.
Please pray for him; he is spending Christmas in jail; away from his 5 kids….
“But wait, theres MORE!”
Did you know if a college graduate, with student loan debt, takes a Gummint job, working for the State or Federal government (not sure about municipal, but I suspect so) their obligation is suspended,..
IF they work at that Gummint job, for TEN YEARS, their loan is “forgiven”; they don’t have to pay it back.
So, having attended an Ivy league school, and recieved a degree in say, law degree (like Comey, McCabe, Stroxz or lisa) or a medical degree (like say Fauxi or Collins) and running up $100,000+ student debt, you go to work for the government, and after 10 years, you get a $100,000 “Bonus”.
Does the Gummint REALLY have such a difficult time finding new workers, or retaining its current workforce, that such a ‘Bonus’ is justified?
And now, the latest thrust is to “forgive” ALL student loan debt, this 90 day ‘freeze’ is just a stopgap measure, on their way to completing the Gov takeover of University education.
Its a many front assault; if even ONE Student recieves ANY Gov. $, for their education, the University must comply with Federal rules and regulations, the Courts have so ruled.
So, a University is denied Federal funding if they don’t obey the dictates of Federal govt, which can include required curricula, no-gender bathrooms, trans sports foolishness, admission policies including quotas (but we won’t CALLthem “quotas” although they ARE!) there really is no end to the dictates the Federal gov can force on Universities.
Just to add to this – it is true that if one works for the Fed or a State government (not sure of all states) after 10 years one can have the remainder of the debt forgiven.
However, I believe you must also make your payments for the 10 years in order to be eligible.
So help me understand. If Joeblow is going to forgive student loans, does that mean that from now on no one has to pay for university any longer? If no one has to pay back a loan, who is going to be lending the money now to cover the costs for the universities?
The de facto student loan forgiveness continues … 6uild 6ack 6etter
Dang, is Klain still out front leading the blockers for Brandon?
Is the interest accruing during the pause? If so those borrowers will be in even worse shape when the pause ends.
When do they start paying my car loan off??? Asking for a friend.
Per the pic at the top of the article, Ron Klein needs to boost his hairpiece budget.
Given the polarizing nature of the topic, I really don’t expect anyone to read or care about my thoughts, but some things that I’ve learned both in speaking to college graduates and being a college dropout myself years ago. Important caveat: I don’t think loan forgiveness is the answer.
When you go to buy a new car, there are lemon laws to protect you from fraud on behalf of the dealer. Let us say you take out a loan and go through all the paperwork process, do your background checks on the dealer, talk to everyone you know who all vouches for the company, and finally inspect the car you want and sign for it. Then the dealer hands you the keys, not to the new car you signed for, but a beat up frame sitting on concrete blocks because the tires are gone, with the hood open showing no engine.
Of course you wouldn’t accept that. And if the dealer refused to give you the car you signed for, you could go to court to either force them to give you the car or give you the money back so you could pay off the loan.
You now have an generation of men and women (yes, they’re men and women. Most of them are in their mid-30s) who had that same thing happen to them. Everyone they knew told them to go to college to get a “real” job. Parents, teachers, guidance councilors, friends. Is it really that much of a surprise that after 12 years of grade-school propaganda a 17 year old would sign on the dotted line for tens of thousands of dollars of debt that everyone they trust to be looking out for their best interest is a good investment in their future?
So now you have a lost generation of thirty-somethings with little to no hope for their futures. They won’t be able to afford homes. Afford marriages. Afford children and families. It’s a desperate, depressed, angry generation that is being told that it’s their fault for trusting everyone they respected in their lives and that their now screwed?
Student loan debt is now north of 100 TRILLION dollars. With a T. The government has monetized that debt to pay for everything, using those expected returns to back their own loans. This is money that is never going to be paid back, because the people who hold this debt will never make the money to pay it off. They’re stuck with the debt and the car with no engine or tires, and is being told that they have to live with it. Is it any wonder that this generation is such a prime breeding ground for virulent communists to find easy prey?
Rather than complain or lay blame, I’m hoping to find a solution. Critical theory can only criticize, it never offers solutions. My suggestion is that it’s time to have a very serious discussion between generations and look to solve this problem. The government isn’t going to help, and they’re certainly not going to let that debt go, it’s the basis of the economy now.
Instead of saying “sucks to be you” perhaps offer help in the skills this generation never got. How to budget. How to live on less. Offer to teach trade skills under-the table in exchange for work. Sure, some of this generation is going to reject you. But many, many more are desperate for help from people who know how to get by. I’ve talked to them, and I am one. I’d drop everything I own and move to another state in a heartbeat as an indentured servant to someone who would be willing to teach me gunsmithing/machinist skills.
Ultimately, passing blame between generations isn’t going to fix the problem, and the debt bomb keeps ticking on. We have to find some solution to ease the pain now before or it goes off. I’d love to hear constructive ideas.