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US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities
The Associated Press ^ | August 19, 2021 | By COLLIN BINKLEY

Posted on 08/19/2021 8:38:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Getting their nose under the tent.


21 posted on 08/19/2021 8:54:16 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Great. So every dang leftist gets a free ride!


22 posted on 08/19/2021 8:54:44 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How does the US expect to erase its massive debt?


23 posted on 08/19/2021 8:55:28 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

..And then suddenly, as if by magic, almost 90% of Loan Applicants self diagnosed and declared themselves as ‘Disabled’!!

How can this be? How did this happen?


24 posted on 08/19/2021 8:55:32 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh boy!


25 posted on 08/19/2021 8:55:46 AM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My wife is considered 100% disabled by the government. She got a degree and 2 masters on student loans and paid them off in 5 years. She also got them in a field that pays well. Son of a b***h thats not right.


26 posted on 08/19/2021 8:57:28 AM PDT by BudgieRamone (Everybody loves a bonk on the head.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

My neighbor is a nurse and she said most of people she has seen are either trying to get pain medication or qualify for disability.

Look for the cases to skyrocket and for those smarmy attorney commercials to inundate the airways.


27 posted on 08/19/2021 8:58:01 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I identify as someone with severe disabilities, does that count?


28 posted on 08/19/2021 8:59:39 AM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

OK, I am old and that is considered a disability.

I want my student loan retroactively forgiven.


29 posted on 08/19/2021 9:00:54 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

For the sake of argument, let’s set aside the small number of student loan debtors who, after incurring debt, contract unusual illnesses or are mangled in accidents, shot up by gang members, etc.

To run up student loan debt, an individual would have had to be physically and mentally capable of attending college. If capable of attending college, they are capable of working at something, especially with many jobs being compatible with “work from home”. “Becoming a crack addict like Hunter” is not a valid reason to receive taxpayer subsidies.

Biden’s “policy” is nothing but a scam and gateway to cancelling all student debt.


30 posted on 08/19/2021 9:01:25 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can they deny student loans to the disabled?


31 posted on 08/19/2021 9:01:35 AM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: Sgt_Schultze

If they’re unable to make a monthly payment on the debt how do they expect them to come up with these huge lump sums all at once? Nevermind.


32 posted on 08/19/2021 9:02:10 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If a student is able to do the work to obtain a college degree, he is able to hold down a job.

If a person becomes severely disabled and unemployable after graduation, that is very sad. It’s rare but it happens. We are all in principle one car accident or bad encounter with stairs from this outcome. But such people should discharge their debts through bankruptcy, not have them cancelled by executive fiat. Bankruptcy judges can sort this kind of thing out, and creditors will often be understanding in the case of catastrophic injury. Going this route provides a check against abuse. Going the Biden route is an open invitation to abuse.

Which I presume is the point.


33 posted on 08/19/2021 9:03:34 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Totally and permanently disabled means they qualify for SSI all their lives. They are designated as “cannot work.” Why do they get free college?


34 posted on 08/19/2021 9:03:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities

Like being Tranny, Homo, black, Muslim, Marxist or Feminist.

35 posted on 08/19/2021 9:05:33 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Being an old White guy who works and pays taxes is a severe disability.

(This is just another attempt to get people to take their eye off the ball -- or off the Afghan flying through the air.)

36 posted on 08/19/2021 9:06:05 AM PDT by Sooth2222 (“Toute nation a le gouvernement qu’elle mérite.” ("Every nation has the government it deserves.”) )
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To: qwerty1234

Not today in Bimerica...everyone gets a trophy, everyone gets an A, everyone gets a check. Oh, you are a producer, you get the bill.

happy times.


37 posted on 08/19/2021 9:06:52 AM PDT by Mouton (The enemy of the people is the media )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am fairly certain that lot of these “disabilities” are thinks like chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, depression, anxiety, addiction, low back pain etc.


38 posted on 08/19/2021 9:10:48 AM PDT by consult
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To: T.B. Yoits

“Erase debt? No, this passes it on to taxpayers.”

It’s noble to help the weak but it’s a disaster to suck the strength from the strong (via taxation in this case).


39 posted on 08/19/2021 9:11:02 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What about all of the front liners of doctors and nurses who’ve had to work in hospitals and nursing homes during the pandemic?


40 posted on 08/19/2021 9:15:48 AM PDT by doc maverick
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