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"Thursday August 25, 2022, saw Usurper in Thief Joe Biden’s latest risky scheme to 100% intentionally crash the U.S. economy revealed and if you guess forgiving college debt you won. Meanwhile, America lost as SOMEONE will pay that debt back and that someone will be ALL taxpayers. Plus the bonus is we don’t get to repossess those expensive educations. One person doing a victory lap and slapping down the logic of how evil the action is was Debbie Dingell (D is for Debacle) who derided “armchair economists” as if you need to be an economist or sitting in an armchair...

On Wednesday, I pulled up my go-to news site for some midday procrastination. When I saw the headline about President Joe Biden announcing student-debt cancellation, I immediately texted my sister. After a flurry of messages about what we knew, she summed up what we were both feeling: This is literally life-changing. It wasn't an exaggeration. I graduated from an expensive private college 12 years ago, and I still pay hundreds of dollars each month in student loans. My sister learned a bit from my mistakes. She graduated from a community college last year with a career-focused associate's degree in healthcare....

President Joe Biden is expected to announce $10,000 of student loan “forgiveness” for low- and middle-income Americans earning less than $125,000 on Wednesday. While the move is ostensibly to give lower-income Americans a lift in Biden’s recession, a closer look at the numbers shows it will disproportionately aid those who are better off.According to an analysis of Biden’s plan from the University of Pennsylvania out Tuesday, such a wide-ranging bailout will come with a price tag of $300-$980 billion for American taxpayers. Furthermore, the university calculated, “Between 69 and 73 percent of the debt forgiven accrues to households in the...

President Biden’s plan to cancel a portion of student loan debt has drawn mixed reactions from both far-leftists and conservatives across social media as some leftists contend it is not enough while others celebrate it as a victory for racial justice, and conservatives claim it will only benefit elites. President Biden on Wednesday announced his plan to forgive a portion of student loan debt for individual borrowers making less than $125,000.

President Joe Biden could announce a decision on wide-scale student loan forgiveness as soon as Wednesday, CNN is reporting. The president is reportedly leaning towards a plan to dismiss $10,000 in federal student loans for borrowers earning less than $125,000. Eligible borrowers would include those with federal Direct Loans, FFELP Loans, Perkins Loans, Parent PLUS Loans and Grad PLUS Loans. Borrowers with private loans would be excluded. The plan has not been finalized and it subject to last-minute revisions, according to the report. It is similar to earlier White House proposals, though Biden had previously backed an income cap of...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Democratic strategist and CNN Contributor Paul Begala criticized proposals for President Joe Biden to forgive student loan debt by stating that “Democrats have gone from being the party of the factory floor to being the party of the faculty lounge.” And Democrats should “go back to their roots, which is, earn it.”

Inflation is the biggest threat to Joe Biden’s presidency. Prices are rising nearly 8% per year, and could go higher still before Federal Reserve rate hikes or other measures bring some relief to family budgets.

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is urging President Joe Biden to extend the student loan payment pause to give the administration time to fix broken student loan programs and help student loan borrowers better prepare to make payments.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Exodus 20:5 KJV The legacy and shame of sexual sin has been passed down through my family, as is true in millions of others. I’m sure if the numbers of those affected were truly known, it would shock the world. This is the underbelly of a darkness that affects us to our core. And that which is left unexamined,...

I visited an old friend over the weekend. We had not talked for far too long a time. He gave me some sound advice–it was about me. We were discussing someone who was a mutual friend, and who’d wronged me. Even though I knew it was wrong to carry resentment towards my former friend for what he had done, nevertheless, I have been unable to completely shake that resentment. In a nutshell, my friend told me something I thought I already knew–that even if my former friend was 100% wrong–I AM WRONG FOR CONTINUING TO RESENT HIM FOR IT! That...

Recently I realized that I think way too much about what I’m going to say to people who cause me, to be honest, just a mild inconvenience! It’s a clue to an issue that isn’t fully worked out yet. I remember being at a park one day when I was a boy. My brother was there, too, and another boy. I was smiling, and I believe it was the other boy who asked me, “Why are you smiling?” I was just happy to be alive. Apparently that boy had already had his happiness snatched away. Mine would get snatched soon...

Welcome to the weekend your host with his formerly stained fingers at the keyboard with another post looking in all kinds of directions. Lets go to conventional politics the kind backed by and controlled by Big Business. Mike Pence lining up his loyalists and among them Kellyanne Conway... Now the story of the "Alberta Wall" the three layers of fencing erected around Grace Life Church just outside the city limits of Edmonton in Canada. Its the coronavirus crackdown enforced by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and a private security company.... At one time the "Conservative Christian" Premier of Alberta William...

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us…”In order to be able to sincerely ask forgiveness of our sins, we must be willing to undergo prayerful self examination. The LORD’s prayer teaches us to ask God to show us our secret faults, our trespasses, and any obstacles between our soul and God which we might be unaware of. We serve and worship a God who is able to search our hearts. He can see what we cannot see about ourselves. We can learn to pray sincerely with David, for the light of God in our self...

“…and Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors”We are dependent creatures, we need our daily bread and are taught to look to God for it in the Lord’s prayer. We certainly cannot live by bread, but neither can we live without it. In the same way, we cannot live without the mercy of God’s forgiveness. We need it, daily. I cannot live without God, without communion and the sense of God in my life. But I am a sinner. I have to have forgiveness. God gives us so much more than we even realize. His giving is constant,...

Cancel culture just proved itself more powerful than the devil in Prada herself, Anna Wintour. Years-old tweets you made as a foolish, ignorant teen, and later profusely apologized for, mean you can’t be trusted as editor of . . . Teen Vogue. Alexi McCammond, deemed in 2019 the emerging journalist of the year by the National Association of Black Journalists and supported by Wintour and the rest of top Condé Nast management for the Teen Vogue job, won’t be starting next week as editor-in-chief of the fashion and lifestyle magazine after a staff rebellion over offensive remarks posted in 2011....

For those concerned with becoming a victim of today’s raging “Cancel Culture,” there is a rather simple solution: be born perfect. Actually, be born perfect, live a perfect life, and never run afoul of the unwritten, constantly changing, and haphazardly enforced rules determined by an anonymous committee of self-appointed social media scolds. Or, maybe it is not so simple. It is easy to make light of the obviously impossible standards liberals have set for acceptable thoughts, speech, and actions; to the point where liberals now are cancelling one another. Nevertheless, beyond this absurdity lies a less obvious and quiescent trait...

Err On The Side Of LOVE. By JAG March 14, 2021 Sunday It's impossible for we humans to always "get it right" with regard to the precise balance between LOVE and Justified Harshness. But err on the side of LOVE. Strongly emphasize such things as: ■ God wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. ■ There is Hope for all men. ■ Second chances for all people. Give'em second chances. ■ Forgiveness. Be forgiving in heart. Forgive people. ■ Never curse the darkness, instead light at least one candle. ■ Do at...

There is a story related in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov about an old woman who was quite wicked. She dies and goes to hell to the great distress of her guardian angel. The angel searches for any possible good deed to plead on her behalf and finds a rotten onion – something the old woman had given to a beggar. The angel takes the onion and, with it, begins to pull the old woman out of hell. The end of the story is less than successful, but its power lies in the importance and significance given to even the smallest...

If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. (Psalm 130:3-4)The Psalmist is crying out to God, from “out of the depths”. Those “depths” can be manifold; fear, depression, persecution, pain, and a whole host of other possible sorrows and pains that are so abundant in this fallen world. But underneath all of them, and what makes the endurance of any of them so very insufferable, is guilt. If you marked Iniquity…who could stand? All of us have sinned and come short of the glory of God,...

Jeremiah Chapter 7 They were dealing with each other unjustly Jeremiah 7:5 They were oppressing foreigners Jeremiah 7:6 They were oppressing the fatherless {orphans} and widows {the defenseless} Jeremiah 7:6 They were killing innocent people Jeremiah 7: 6 They were stealing, murdering, committing adultery and committing perjury in the courts. Jeremiah 7:9 God spoke to them again and again and told them to stop doing all these sins, but they refused to listen to Him and they kept on murdering innocent people. Jeremiah 7:13 They were stiff-necked and would not listen and obey the Lord -- they refused to respond...