How in the hell do those considered disabled have a right to debt relief? they are already getting other benefits, aren't they?
What LAW gave obama this power?
I hurt my pinkie. I’m disabled please forgive my loan.
Govt says ..ok
More rights! Who knew?
Shadow reparations?
People’s disabilities do not establish a right to have their debt discharged any more than people’s circumstances are delegations of power to government to address those circumstances.
So-called “progressives” are lawless...
WTHeck?
My spouse is disabled, but we don’t have student loan debt.
Where’s our reparations?
Can I ask WTH they bothered to get those degrees for, if they couldn’t possibly use them?
Obama will do a ton of Crazy things before he’s evicted from the White House
Okay. So who decides what a disability is? So many have been busted playing basketball while claiming disability. That system is beyond broken.
Backdoor the free education, another step towards transforming the US into a Euro style democratic-socialist country.
Universities indoctrinate students to the glories of ever-expanding government, and then Da Gummint assures that Universities face ZERO RISK of the tuition loans.
ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER, NICE ARRANGEMENT.
Pulled a muscle in my ear.
That’s an easy one - because he enjoys few things in life more than p*ssing away the money of hard-working Americans.
Some how they will eventually have to give up their guns if they have them.
Disabled... disenfranchised... disadvantaged... perceived diss from da man... discharged loan... disgusting.
Obama is not doing this on his own. He doesn’t do anything to be nice or fair, look at what he’s done for blacks.
Sorry there is NO right, I repeat NO right not to pay back loans from the Fedgov, State, Local, or any private corporation. Liberal/socialists forget what the word "loan" means. That's why Sanders is so popular with college students. He is beyond socialist, he's a communist. He would like to see all products and services controlled by the State and then re-distributed to the masses. Google for the difference between socialist and communist.
This policy invites fraud. I can see the rationale in forgiving the student loans of someone who truly is permanently and totally disabled (e.g. from a catastrophic injury) and who as a result will never be able to repay the debt. But true permanent and total disability is not that difficult to prove. The process of offering proof is what weeds out the frauds and fakers.
Evidently, there is already a law enabling the disabled to apply for and receive relief.
However, for some reason or another, 400,000 o those eligible haven't made an application -- so, the government is doing it for them.
The program is just gonnna cost us $87.7 billion in foregone income and there will be the normal ration of governnment waste -- relief granted to people who don't deserve it, etc.
Plus, Obama and the Democrats will take full credit for a plan that was passed by our Congresscritters.
How can Obama spend 8 billion taxpayer dollars without the House passing this into law? Is there no challenge to this dictator, ever?