Wikileaks: "Another victory: Student loan reform"

In Spring 2007, on a conference call with students, then-Senator Barack Obama called for major reform to federal student loans:

"We shouldn't be providing billions in taxpayer-funded giveaways to private banks. We should be providing an affordable, accessible college education to every American."

Dr. Jill Biden, an educator for 29 years, just recorded a short video explaining what these groundbreaking reforms mean for education in America. Click here to watch:

The bill the President signed this morning includes historic investments to make education more affordable, and delivers on a key campaign promise. The legislation:

-- Doubles funding for Pell Grants to help more students afford a college education.

-- Will cap a graduate's annual student-loan repayments at 10 percent of his or her income.

-- Helps an additional 5 million Americans earn degrees and certificates over the next decade, by revitalizing programming at our nation's community colleges.

It's a tremendous achievement, but the news may get lost in the excitement around the passage of comprehensive health care reform. So we need to make sure that when folks in Washington open the local paper to the letters page this week, they'll see notes from their neighbors supporting these important reforms.

Can you help? Watch Dr. Biden's video and write a letter to the editor now -- we'll provide helpful talking points to get you started:

P.S. -- To celebrate passing comprehensive health care reform, OFA is holding celebration events across the country. Click here to find and join one near you:

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Guys, this one is a bucket of ripe tomatoes to hurl at them and every liberal.

What was the bank bailout if not billions in taxpayer funded giveaways to private banks?

What is the total amount of student loan debt?

Did 5 million students get degrees (in anything besides Womyn's Studies and Snowflake Identity Training?)

~~...would you like fries with that?~~ (Mexicans took those jobs.)

Would you like a Venti?

And note them crowing about Obamacare.

Let's shove this one up their Donkey!

“We shouldn’t be providing billions in taxpayer-funded giveaways to private banks” Obama

Which he proceeded to do just that a few months later with his vote in the Senate to bail out the private banks (as did Hillary, as did McCain, as did Kerry). Romney said he would have voted for the bailouts if he had been in Congress.

So, of all the people in the last decade or so running for president or VP the only one who didn’t vote for the bailouts (or say she would if she were Congress) was Palin.

We don’t really get choices.

Thank you for referencing that article grey_whiskers. Please note that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Patriots beware !

Federal involvement in INTRAstate banking and intrastate schooling is not a matter of the opinion of federal lawmakers.

More specifically, Thomas Jefferson had indicated that the Founding States had never delgated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific powers to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate banking or schooling.

“A proposition was made to them to authorize Congress to open canals, and an amendatory one to empower them to incorporate. But the whole was rejected, and one of the reasons for rejection urged in debate was, that then they would have a power to erect a bank, which would render the great cities, where there were prejudices and jealousies on the subject, adverse to the reception of the Constitution [emphasis added].” —Jefferson’s Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.

So until the states should decide to amend the Constituiton to give the feds such powers, the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds should not be regulating, taxing and spending for either banking or education. Previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified this in general as follows.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Remember in November !

Patriots need to support Trump / Pence by also electing a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support Trump’s vision for making America great again for everybody, but will also put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes and likewise unconstitutional inteference in state affairs as evidenced by unconstitutional interference in banking and education.

Note that such a Congress will also probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.

Hillary mentioned this last night, dangling that carrot: “Free degrees in Wymens Studies for everybody!”

March 22, 2012
(CNSNews.com) – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that Obamacare facilitates the type of “liberation” that the “Founders had in mind” because it allows you to quit your job and become a “photographer,” a “writer,” a “musician”—or “whatever.”

“As you hear from these stories, this is a liberation,” Pelosi said at a Capitol Hill news conference Thursday.

All this is is pandering for the kids not jazzed about her Heinous and another boondoggle for future `rats.
We’ve got enough deadhead whatevers already taking up space in our overwhelmingly left wing ivory towers.

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Tell us, @johnpodesta, why you were speed dating WHILE being married? Hardly the proper message to send to America's youth #PodestaEmails13