Posted on 12/23/2024 3:55:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Even a presidential administration as incompetent, feckless, and clueless as the Biden administration, it seems, can read the writing on the wall — if they get their noses rubbed in it. In the latest example of just this, the administration has withdrawn its plan to forgive a large number of student loans — and we can take the word "forgive" to mean "transfer the liability to the taxpayers."
The Biden administration has withdrawn two major plans to deliver student loan forgiveness.
The proposed regulations would have allowed the secretary of the U.S. Department of Education to cancel student loans for several groups of borrowers, including those who had been in repayment for decades and others experiencing financial hardship.
The combined policies could have reduced or eliminated the education debts of millions of Americans.
Of course, these policies wouldn't have reduced or eliminated anything. Money has been disbursed and has to be paid back. The Biden administration wanted to remove the liability of the young skulls full of mush who signed contracts for these loans, who read and presumably understood the repayment terms. If you're wondering about whom will be assuming the liability for these debts, you may want to take a long, hard look in the mirror.
We're talking a lot of money, here.
See Related: WASTE: Biden Admin Throws Another $4.28 Billion at Student Loan Debtors
Here comes the rationalization:
The department wrote that it was terminating the rulemaking proceeding due to “operational challenges in implementing the proposals.” It said it would “commit its limited operational resources” in these final weeks of the administration “to helping at-risk borrowers return to repayment successfully.”
"Operational challenges," we can take to mean "On January 20th, Donald Trump resumes office, and there won't be any more talk of letting these young skulls full of mush off the hook." That's as it should be. These people signed contracts. The contracts stipulated terms, interest rates, repayment, and recourses available. Unless the federal government intends to abrogate a few hundred years of contract law, these loans, these contracts, can't just simply be ignored.
If there were any sanity in the financing of education, of course, this wouldn't be an issue. This is an issue for one primary reason: The federal government is involved. The endless federal gravy train has resulted in wildly inflated costs of education, an equally wild growth in the administration-to-faculty ratio and universities, and the explosion of Ethnic Underwater Dog-Polishing Studies degrees, which are the biggest waste of time and money since, well, about 90 percent of what the federal government spends money on.
The incoming Trump administration, it seems, intends not only to end this student loan repayment scheme but to greatly reduce the role of the federal government in education — which is a good thing.
Ok Trump. Transfer them to banks or collection agencies.
In other words…
“Sorry, kiddos. The election is over, I lost, and I don’t need to buy your votes. Get lost.”
“Operational challenges,” we can take to mean “On January 20th, Donald Trump resumes office, and there won’t be any more talk of letting these young skulls full of mush off the hook.”
If these students were paying on a loan for a Tesla or pick up truck there would be no problem. They would call it an investment.
Make the colleges pay the defaulted loans.
They earned it.
Illegal aliens have been awarded billions in “forgivable loans” and something needs to be collected on that crap too or cut off their plethora of assistance.
Like hell he has. Over a month left for this desiccated evil POS to do as much damage as possible.
This is why momma is single now and can’t get anyone to marry her again.
Rather than forgiving loans, Biden should have focused on getting the US gov’t out of the loan guarantee business. You’ll see tuition rates drop dramatically. Those loans should be between the educational institution and the student. Make those loans dischargeable in bankruptcy as every other loan in America is....
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