How in the hell do those considered disabled have a right to debt relief? they are already getting other benefits, aren't they?
Disabled, read that unemployed.
Mission Accomplished regarding the government takeover of student loans.
This will morph further into a complete government handout.
Obama is Santa Claus. He can just put it all on the credit card... the next president can deal with the bill.
They are all going to be black or other protected minority classes. Reparations by any other name.
He has no power to do this.
How can someone who is classified as ‘DISABLED’ ABLE TO GO TO SCHOOL? If you can go to school, study and meet a schedule THEN YOU ARE NOT DISABLED!!!!!!!!! One is either CAPABLE OR NOT CAPABLE BUT NOT BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.
Tent, meet the camels nose. It’s just a hop, skip, and a jump from here to free college. Just watch.
I went to tech college specifically because I was disabled and couldn’t hold down menial labor jobs any longer. I became more disabled while in the process of paying off my student loans. I was never offered anything like this. It took me almost 15 years to pay off my loans, but I did it. What a fool am I?
If doctors would only read these forms before they sign:
The criteria for disability to discharge student loans, at least in the past if they are not foisting something new, state that the “patient” must be unable to do ANYTHING AT ALL THAT IS WORTHY OF REMUNERATION in essence in order to be considered “disabled” for the purposes of federal student loan forgiveness.
If the “patient” can answer a phone for 1 hour a few times a week, then “they” are not “disabled.”
IN general, if the patient is capable of reading a notice and calling and making an appointment and going to a doctor to request discharge of a loan (that he or she has typically IGNORED for YEARS before any “disability”), then that proves that he or she is capable of meaningful work to a degree that discharge of a federal student loan is prohibited.
This entire thing is BOGUS and depends on dense legalistic small print forms being misread by doctors all over our land.
Get your best “Gomer Pyle” voice in your head for this:
“Bogus Bogus, Bogus!”
Ok, I am having a hard time believing there are nearly half a million people who were fine when they went to school but became permanently disabled before they could pay off their loans.
I believe in supporting, and supporting well, those Americans who are truly completely helpless. Happy to give my tax dollars to them, though I’d prefer less of a greedy middleman.
But we are not talking about many people! If they were well enough to attend college, they should be well enough to work, with the exception of the few who since then have had their brains or bodies completely shattered in an accident or devasting illness. There are NOT half a million or so of them.
I will say it again - Conservatives can never compete with free stuff given away by the nanny state - who pays for it all with printed, fiat currency, and massive debt courtesy of the Federal Reserve.
Until that is fixed, Conservatives will see the country sliding away from them.
A someone who payed their college tuition bills via an ROTC scholarship, my initial response to this farkling bullfarking crap is unprintable.
I do not farking deserve to pay for other people motherfarking stupid farking decisions, damn it!
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How do they go to school if they’re disabled? And is that different than a job where they sit in a cubical running a computer?
All these loans getting forgiven and I’m not one of the lucky few.
Instead, I have to pay for the others getting their loans forgiven.
Bah.
"...Because it says so right here in the Bill of Rights!"
Regards,
It’s not connected to the election, just a coincidence...
My disability is that I’m a misgendered transsexual.
I should have been born a woman so that my transitioning to a man could be both celebrated and also clearly identify me as a transsexual entitled to all the rights and privileges that ought to be bestowed upon ones so oppressed.
But instead, by accident of birth, I was cursed to be both born biologically as a man AND to identify as a man. So having been denied the need to undergo a sex change transitioning, I am most definitely disabled.
Where do I sign up?
What percent are black? Another perk for Holder’s people.
” Why Obama is forgiving the student loans of nearly 400,000 disabled people”.
Obama insults disabled people by implying they are unable to pay their debts like the able bodied. Does anyone think that this will be the response of disabled rights advocates?