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Student Loan Debtors Refusing to Pay Off Debt in Anticipation of Biden Forgiveness
PJ Media ^ | 02/15/2021 | Rick Moran

Posted on 02/15/2021 7:34:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 02/15/2021 7:34:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
“We’re going to win what we organize for,” said Thomas Gokey

Spoken like a true Commie.

2 posted on 02/15/2021 7:37:44 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: SeekAndFind

Yeah, well mrs rktman will be expecting a check back for the student loans we paid off.

“WHERE’S OUR DOUGH JOE AND HO?” 😄💰


3 posted on 02/15/2021 7:37:55 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: SeekAndFind
Biden has yet to issue an executive order on student loan debt.

I don't think he can. I think that's beyond the scope of what EOs are for. Democrats are unaware of this, but the original intention was not to make Democrats into dictasters, er, dictators, but for the executive to issue guidance on how the executive branch is going to carry out Constitutionally passed legislation.

4 posted on 02/15/2021 7:37:56 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: SeekAndFind

what did anyone expect? Of course they are going to drag their feet- if they pay it’s not like they’ll get a refund.


5 posted on 02/15/2021 7:39:44 AM PST by ronniesgal ( no fool like an old fool!)
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To: SeekAndFind

People really don’t understand this axiom: Except for one time payments to the population like we’ve seen with the pandemic stimulus, the Federal government does not hand out money to individual people unless they are in very dire straights.

i.e. you may see the FedGov forgive a part of your Student loan if you are on welfare or living in a cardboard box.

That is, nobody wants their life to be in the situation where they are even eligible for student loan debt relief.

Like rush limbaugh used to say, the government wants to give you just enough to keep you miserable. Those that go on to live lives of joy and productivity will see little or no student loan debt relief. That is simply the FedGov’s MO. And really, that is the only time help is justified - people that don’t get it are at risk of dying.


6 posted on 02/15/2021 7:41:37 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden wants to get congress involved so he can smear the GOP for opposing loan forgiveness and lock those voters in as Democrats.

What the GOP should do is propose giving money to those who have NEVER attended college (which is the majority of Americans, btw).

Make the case that if you are going to be shuffling money between taxpayers, it should be going from the rich to the poor.

Those that go to college make multiple times as much money in their lifetimes as those who don’t. It’s unfair to tax those who don’t go to college and give the money to college grads who are better off financially due to their college experience.

I doubt it would ever make it through congress either, but it would throw a monkey wrench into the Democrats’ argument for bailing out college students.

If the gov is going to give $50 to people, why should it be people that have attended college and not the poor?


7 posted on 02/15/2021 7:42:49 AM PST by Brookhaven
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell the mortgage companies to send their bills to Biden.


8 posted on 02/15/2021 7:42:53 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: SeekAndFind

Do I have to go to college to get some free money?


9 posted on 02/15/2021 7:43:10 AM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Unexpected.


10 posted on 02/15/2021 7:43:48 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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How very brave of them, considering that all Federally held student debt is currently in Forbearance (not being collected), at 0% interest, until at least Sep 30, 2021. However, not all student loan debt is fed owned, and I don’t think Josef Stolen can forgive that private debt.


11 posted on 02/15/2021 7:44:07 AM PST by msgt (Press any key to continue...Press any other key to quit.)
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“what did anyone expect? Of course they are going to drag their feet- if they pay it’s not like they’ll get a refund.”

Yep, that’s exactly what I said about it when they proposed it again. Also, if it’s forgiveness across the board, why would anyone pay for college ever again? They’ll all take out student loans — even folks who can afford to pay for it — and wait for another round of forgiveness.


12 posted on 02/15/2021 7:45:00 AM PST by AnglePark
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They’re gonna be surprised when the IRS starts withholding their tax refunds in the future if they default on their student loans. Even the stimulus payment can be seized for defaulted loans.

I still have a student loan; never occurred to me to stop making my monthly payments.


13 posted on 02/15/2021 7:45:37 AM PST by Spirit of Liberty (Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. ~ Plato)
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There was a viral Facebook post that appeared on February 2nd claiming student loan debt had been forgiven by President Biden.

Surely Facebook took this post down as "false information."

14 posted on 02/15/2021 7:47:42 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: SeekAndFind
The Ruling Establishment is implementing a strategy that is Cloward-Piven on steroids: collapse the system not just to implement a guaranteed income...collapse the system to install an all powerful communist government.

Joe and the Ho can kill the student loan program by just by "pretending" to have a plan to forgive all student debt.

If many former students, expecting debt forgiveness, stop repaying their debt all at once, the student loan system will collapse.

It's like a rumored run on banks in reverse.

15 posted on 02/15/2021 7:49:09 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: SeekAndFind

Slackers seek golden loophole.


16 posted on 02/15/2021 7:53:14 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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collapse the system


In someway that makes sense and we should help them. The sooner we reach bottom, the sooner we can start rebuilding.

Now is the time to prepare for the rebuild. Get solid ground on our heritage and relationship with God. It is going to be a ride with a lot of waves seeking to destroy the foundations.


17 posted on 02/15/2021 7:53:19 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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An acquaintance had some kind of debt that took any tax refunds; she seemed to give up on ever receiving any for the rest of time. Not sure if it was student debt or what...


18 posted on 02/15/2021 7:54:06 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: immadashell
Do I have to go to college to get some free money?

Apparently so. Even better if you study something completely useless like "women's studies" or "gender studies" or whatever the latest fad/drivel is these days. Don't bother studying a science or engineering field - apparently the math that these cirricula are based on is now considered racist due to it's focus on actually getting the right answer.

Of course it has been noted that the real irony of the notion of forgiving student debt is that the net result is to hammer the working man. Er, sorry, working person, er, maybe working non-gender-specifc-pronoun-of-your-choice. The net is, millions of "working class Americans" you know, the moniker the leftists like to throw around, will now be paying (via taxes) for all those "rich college kids" to have gone to school. Hey, how's that "the left looks out for the working man" thing working out?

19 posted on 02/15/2021 7:54:46 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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Ha ha ha! You mean they don’t understand that democrats promise all kinds of great stuff and when they don’t want it to really happen they blame the restupilicans for why you are disappointed. Wash, rinse, repeat.


20 posted on 02/15/2021 7:55:33 AM PST by dforest (RATS are criminals and frauds. Hide anything that belongs to you. They will steal it.)
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