The local mechanic, lawn guy, seamstress and retail clerk will be paying the taxes to carry the load for Ivy League college moochers.We Are The Whinety Whine Poorcent
Posted on 10/26/2011 6:23:41 PM PDT by magellan
In keeping with his new campaign theme of "we can't wait," President Obama today will roll out a plan to put more money in the pockets of some of the nation's 36 million student loan recipients.
Take this example: If Suzy Creamcheese gets into George Washington University and borrows from the government the requisite $212,000 to obtain an undergraduate degree, her repayment schedule will be based on what she earns. If Suzy opts to heed the president’s call for public service, and takes a job as a city social worker earning $25,000, her payments would be limited to $1,411 a year after the $10,890 of poverty-level income is subtracted from her total exposure.
Twenty years at that rate would have taxpayers recoup only $28,220 of their $212,000 loan to Suzy.
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Ah, yes. The “I gotta go” slogan.
Cloward-Piven on overdrive.
The local mechanic, lawn guy, seamstress and retail clerk will be paying the taxes to carry the load for Ivy League college moochers.We Are The Whinety Whine Poorcent
If this happens, I’m out of here. The country, I mean.
Saw on the news tonight that those poor kids are victums, like the rest of the rats.
I'm not so sure we can unseat O in 2012, if he keeps piling up the "victums" in our "society".
The question is: Will she do a nasty on the White House lawn?
FMCDH(BITS)
The student loan program that King Obama announced this week is typical vote-buying welfare that invites abuse and fraud.
True story. I struck up a conversation with a woman in an airport while waiting for a flight. The economy and the plight of recent college graduates came up. She openly (without a hint of shame) told to me how her daughter plans to take advantage of Sugar-Daddy Obama’s generosity.
Her daughter is majoring in a graphic design program at an expensive CA university and already has $56,000 in student loans.
Realizing that the labor market is depressed, instead of graduating, she is staying in school and living off student loans as long as she can. Which is what millions of others will do too.
She has no incentive whatsoever to limit how much debt she racks-up. She knows that she will not be held accountable to pay it back. Why stop at $56,000? $100,000! $150,000! $200,000! Sky’s the limit when you are spending free money!
After 20 years of repaying not much if any of her student loans, her debt will be forgiven.
How neat! Like free money or something!!
She added insult to injury by telling me that in her daughter’s line of work, many times she will be paid cash or on a 1099/self-employed basis.
So, since her daughter doesn’t plan to show much income tax on her tax returns anyway, the 10% of discretionary income will be practically 0. She plans to pay back almost ZERO!!
I shudder to think that we already have $1 trillion in student loan debt. With a government give-away like this one, we could easily double that to $2 trillion. What happens when the gov’t has to start forgiving 100s of billions in dollars in student loan debt?
Who pays for it? The money was spent. Somebody expected to get paid back. Who loses and/or who pays it if not the student?
That is exactly how the system will be gamed.
Those brainwashed kids standing behind Obama and cheering in front of him have idea how quickly he is destroying their country. So sad.
Easy, cheap, government-guaranteed money caused the housing bubble. Now it has caused a higher education bubble.
This is the vote-buying politicians’ way to keep the bubble inflated and keep the money flowing to one of their best mouth-pieces... liberal professors.
And the politicians won’t stop bribing the people with their own money until we are Greece on steroids.
I am profoundly sad to say that this woman was NOT an Obama-supporting liberal.
That is what happens when a country goes Socialist.
Everyone takes as much as they can, until there is nothing left to take.
As Prof. Alexander Frazer Tytler supposedely said back in the 1800’s (paraphrasing): A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always vote for the candidate promising the most benefits from the treasury with the result that democracy always collpases over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship.
That describes Greece today. It could very well be America soon.
So you paid off your your student loans too? Now we both can feel like chumps
SOOOOOO, if you owe the government, for a college loan, and can pay back at 10%, why can’t a person who owes the IRS, pay 10% back. Will he bail us out too?
“The local mechanic, lawn guy, seamstress and retail clerk will be paying the taxes to carry the load for Ivy League college moochers.”
Well, that seems fair, because they themselves will all have degrees in Comparative Cultural Studies, MTV History and Womyns Studies, respectively.
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It makes me sick!
A 200,000 student loan is, lately, higher than the price of a new home.
So, taking Obama’s logic for forgiveness of student loans, why not apply it to home mortgages?
Why not just pay a tiny fraction of the mortgage, and after 10 or 20 years, it’s paid for, and whatever balance was owed to the bank, is, well, a sacrifice to keep people above water.
But, why not take the whole loan(s) situation a bit further and... not even have them. Why not just give everything away, for free. Free student “loans”, free mortgages, free car loans, free food, free transportation, free cable plans, free vacations, free everything! After all, all of those have a tendency of eating into people’s earnings, and, even worse, some people won’t be able to pay for them. So, just get rid of having to pay for anything. Having to pay for anything is so... what do you call it?... evil capitalism!
” - - - one of his early legislative initiatives was to have the federal government take over the student lending business in America. - - - “
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/26/obama-taps-taxpayers-for-student-stimulus/#ixzz1bwQRONcK
By “taking over,” (which illegally reduced competition), Obama became a criminal for violating the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law.
Impeachment of Obama at that time would have saved America from his destructive spending for then on.
The gutless RINO Congressmen and women are equally responsible for Obama’s criminal actions because Congress is the primary Check and Balance on the Presidency as designed by our Founders.
By failing to stop an arrogant, lunatic, debt-greedy, Chief Executive, the current Congressmen and women thus became the enablers to Spendaholic Obama.
America will probably learn too late, that it is the constant tweaking, the constant adjusting the constant stimulating that is causing investors to GAME THE SYSTEM, so that no one wins. Just stay out of it, and let the laws of choice and consequence take their toll. People who sign contracts are bound by the law.
Same here. Paid as I went along so I didn’t take any. Boy was I silly!
The “LAW” (at this time) is defined by Eric Holder. He literly decides what the law is and is not.
Who needs a Congress when everything HE wants to do is done by Executive Order.
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