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Student Loan Crisis: Another Obama Legacy of Failure
The Revolutionary Act ^ | 02/13/18

Posted on 02/13/2018 6:38:48 AM PST by Liberty7732

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To: NEMDF

They should also garnish the pay of the college presidents, administrators, professors etal who took this government money knowing full well that a significant number of their students would never be able to pay it back.


41 posted on 02/13/2018 9:21:06 AM PST by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: AppyPappy

I think part of the crisis is, they want the government to wipe away their debt. Of course, when you drop over $100k for a worthless degree and realize that it ain’t gonna pay the bills, the snowflakes among us start pointing fingers and look to others to save them. They’ve been taught that the, Government, will solve all their problems.


42 posted on 02/13/2018 9:25:45 AM PST by qaz123
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To: cgbg

Instead, they (the college employees you mentioned) are likely to come after us again, if their pensions are short of funding when they want to retire.


43 posted on 02/13/2018 9:27:54 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: circlecity

I once read that the profession that had the highest number of defaulters were those in the medical field. After all that schooling, the doctors either wouldn’t or couldn’t pay back their loans. Back in the day people would change their names and get new SSNs to avoid paying. But, then the rules changed. And, now you can’t run and hide. If you’re behind, you’re not getting a government job, a security clearance or anything like that.


44 posted on 02/13/2018 9:29:51 AM PST by qaz123
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To: ActresponsiblyinVA

You’re exactly right. When their hero federalized the industry and they knew the kids would have unlimited access to government money, everything increased. I remember reading that the university system in Cali had to increase tuition and fees by 13% or more one year. Funny, I never heard anything about the faculty being asked to take a pay cut or maybe some useless positions being cut for ridiculous degree programs and classes. Government, in all its forms, is nothing but a way for those on the Left to find work, not have to worry about performing and can usually make a comfortable living, doing it.


45 posted on 02/13/2018 9:34:27 AM PST by qaz123
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To: newgeezer

Did you know all about this?


46 posted on 02/13/2018 9:35:36 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Goblins, Orcs and the Undead: Metaphors for the godless left.)
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To: NEMDF

they do that. If they go after people. People used to be able to get away with not paying. Not anymore. It’s treated like any other debt, with one catch, you can defer your payments if you prove you’re unemployed or still in school. Interest still builds on the loan amount.

So, if you’re a Millenial Hipster that can’t find work, living with your folks and waiting tables for cash, you can defer and defer and defer. Then you have people like Sanders talking about loan forgiveness, why would any one of them write a check.


47 posted on 02/13/2018 9:38:58 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Redwood71

The housing stuff started with CRA, under Carter. Kind of withered away until Clinton and his enforcer at HUD, Cuomo, started threatening banks and lending institutions. They caved but then learned that they could use Wall St to protect themselves by selling the mortgages, even though the paper wasn’t worth anything. Then it crashed.

How is all that similar? Kids are getting degrees in, NOTHING. But, they throw money at them, like they threw mortgages at them, and they rack up debt. Then they get into the real world. Suppose they’re in IT. Now they have to compete against and H1B visa holder, who will work for nothing.


48 posted on 02/13/2018 9:44:14 AM PST by qaz123
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To: PeterPrinciple

When I took mine out, which I repaid, I was told that the rules had changed dramatically and that they could not be discharged in a bankruptcy. In fact, they said that most, if not all, the loopholes people used before, name changes, new SSN, etc, were filled and folks couldn’t walk away from them anymore.

But one thing that has them all in an uproar, this is affecting their credit, etc. So, there goes the new Prius, trendy apartment in the latest hipster neighborhood or a mortgage.


49 posted on 02/13/2018 9:49:17 AM PST by qaz123
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To: Liberty7732

50 posted on 02/13/2018 9:50:02 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive of 64+ million Trump Deplorables. You will lose!)
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To: polymuser

George W Bush’s phone were only supposed to go to people that couldn’t afford one and to be used to call 911 and other government entities, for help.

Not be given away on every street corner, then traded for crack, heroin, or an EBT card.


51 posted on 02/13/2018 9:52:19 AM PST by qaz123
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To: DungeonMaster
Did you know all about this?

I knew The Kenyan took banks out of the process but didn't know how quickly it went from the black into the red.

Debt is the opioid behind our entire economy, and especially for the "higher education" industry.

We're hopelessly addicted and it will eventually contribute to our inevitable downfall.

52 posted on 02/13/2018 9:52:47 AM PST by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson, 1824)
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To: Liberty7732
“By cutting out the middleman, we’ll save the American taxpayers $68 billion in the coming years,” Obama said during the signing ceremony. “That’s real money.” By the way, that savings number comes from the Congressional Budget Office, which once again shows that a palm reader would probably be more accurate in projecting impacts.

ANOTHER MASSIVE DEBT, A FANTASY OF THE KENYAN FAKE PRESIDENT, THE MAGIC NEGRO AND HIS MONEY FAIRY.

If ignorance is bliss, super ignorance and an agenda invariable ends in financial disaster.

Sooner or later, educated, literate and engaged American citizens will have to acknowledge two things.

First of all, that Hussein is without question the most inept and ignorant president in U.S. history. Even 8 years is not long enough to learn on the job to deal with the demands of the office. Historically an unquestioned failure, fully documented by the vast record.
The only preesident on record able to make a trillion$ disappear in a matter of months without a trace. In his first year in office!

Second, the CBO is a fake agency, a total and complete sham, AUATOABP!
A 47 million$ rubber stamp that "confirms" what they receive from Congress for mathematical accuracy only! a thousands of employees adding machine!.

Congress adopts a budget or proposes a large expenditure; assumptions made, that no matter how unreal, absurd and otherworldly cannot be challenged, or modified in any way. Miraculously, most of the time the CBO confirms the financial analysis of what the Congress of criminals submits.

So what's the point of this useless exercise? In the immortal words of that disgraced master scammer, Jonathan Gruber, to "inform" the barely literate ignorant voter!

Does that credibly explain a $23,000,000,000,000 National debt?

53 posted on 02/13/2018 10:38:44 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: AppyPappy
People borrowed money and now they have to pay it back. How is that a crisis?

Double up on your meds, pappy...
90% of them are "forgiven"

and never pay it back!

By any definition, that's a crisis!

54 posted on 02/13/2018 10:42:58 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: taildragger
Oops “Sea” not see, lol !!

Also "you're busy," NOT "your busy..."

55 posted on 02/13/2018 10:47:54 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: bk1000
Its only a crisis for the fools who borrowed a boatload of money to buy a degree in intersectional black transgender interpretive mime studies with a minor in hate whitey.

If student loans are revived IN ANY FORM, it must be limited to STEM diplomas, and NEVER FOR HIGH SCHOOL IN "COLLEGE" REMEDIAL COURSES!!!
You "Effed Up?" apply at McDonalds...

We've got our own real American citizen "dreamers" we need to put though university.

56 posted on 02/13/2018 11:00:08 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: circlecity
You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip. If they don't have the money and don't have wages to garnish it's the govt. that takes the hit. That's all federally insured means now.

I beg to differ.
The govt can't take shit. They don't create wealth. We, the working non govmt employee net taxpayers "take the hit."

57 posted on 02/13/2018 11:04:35 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: ping jockey
If you don't have it it can be transferred to you errs.

You are absolutely right! There are millions of heirs who are actually bastard/errs...

58 posted on 02/13/2018 11:08:45 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: AppyPappy
Debt cannot be transferred to other people after you die... ...You cannot make other people liable for someone else’s debt.

Tell that to the IRS.

In the last decade or two there have been numerous reports of the IRS sizing assets for payment of parents' unpaid taxes that are 35 years old!

59 posted on 02/13/2018 11:14:44 AM PST by publius911 (Am I pissed? You have NO idea...)
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To: publius911

That can only happen if the IRS proved the parents tried to hide assets through their children.

If you die, your debts die with you after assets are liquidated to pay them. That’s the law.


60 posted on 02/13/2018 11:24:58 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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