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Political gamesmanship enveloped a battle over legislation to prevent student loan rates from doubling at the end of June, as House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) denied that Republicans had resigned themselves to the notion that no deal could be struck.
Boehner and New York Sen. Charles Schumer (NY), Democrats’ messaging chief in the Senate, waged a war of words on Capitol Hill on Thursday following a Politico report that House Republican leaders had told their rank-and-file members that reaching an agreement to prevent student loan rates from jumping was “unlikely.”
The report prompted Schumer to pounce on the issue, which is imbued with election-year politics.
"These overheard comments by Speaker Boehner confirm our suspicions that Republicans were never serious about wanting to stop rates from doubling on college students,” he said in a statement. “To many on the hard right, government should not play a role in helping students afford college. Speaker Boehner seems to be following their lead and throwing in the towel on this issue a month before the deadline.”
If Congress does not act, student loan interest rates would rise from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. Both President Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney said they support legislation to prevent the jump, though the hangup in Congress has revolved around how to finance the cost of that bill.
Recognizing the political potency of the issue, Boehner’s office pushed back hard against Schumer and sought to clarify the speaker’s closed door comments.
"Boehner told the members that the president wants to fabricate fights on things like student loans because he's out of ideas; he doesn't want to talk about his record or his failed policies. Told them the House has passed a responsible bill, and that we are waiting on Senate Democrats,” said spokesman Michael Steel. “But that if the interest rate lapses because of their inaction we can fix it retroactively. He also reiterated what he's said before … that if there's a solution that can pass both chambers, we're ready to talk about it."
Congress has been in a stalemate over how to pay for extending the current student loan interest rates into 2013. The cost totals $6 billion, and House Republicans want to pay for it by taking money from a preventative health fund created under President Obama’s healthcare law. Senate Democrats want to close a tax loophole that large corporations use to avoid Federal taxes.
The House passed their version of the bill; so far, the Senate has not passed anything.
Going a step further so as to prevent being painted as intransigent, House and Senate Republican leaders sent a letter later on Thursday to Obama, outlining three possible ways they would be willing to pay for the price tag of the student loan bill. Those possibilities are outlined here.
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Now they've moved onto sticking it to the students...
So far, the GNOP has managed to piss off; women, Hispanics, the elderly, the disabled, veterans & gays!
It was only a matter of time before they came for the youth!
Bend over college grads - it's your turn to grab your ankles!
Republicans have bailed out hardly-working bankers who used taxpayers' money to pay themsevels obscene bonuses after having caused the recession.
But GOP has refused to help the hard-working students whose talents are to help reinvent America the More Beautiful.
Why? Because bankers donate money to political campaigns.
Feisty - and they're gonna be groveling for those student votes come November. Funny how the GOP never thinks ahead. Plus, the loans fly back on the parents too. Just how many groups CAN the GOP tick off???
Republicans would rather send kids to war than to school. Romney has been rattling his saber all through the primaries.
Proof again, the GOP/TP love to spend other people's money. Let us guess the next move .. block raising the debt ceiling and cause an interest rate spike. That's right GOP/TP, shaft middle America. It is, after all, the only activity in which you show competence.
This is going to be a loser for the Republicans just like
the Highway Bill that they cannot pass that accounts for 2 million jobs.
Tick Tock, Tick Tock …
Congress has been in a stalemate over how to pay for extending the current student loan interest rates into 2013. The cost totals $6 billion, and House Republicans want to pay for it by taking money from a preventative health fund created under President Obama’s healthcare law. Senate Democrats want to close a tax loophole that large corporations use to avoid Federal taxes.
The portion in bold highlight should be one of the glaring examples between the GOP and democrats for all to see. The GOP wants to continue their support of their wealthiest comrades. The democrats want to help citizens by taking away some of the tax loopholes that have allowed corporations to be excused from paying their fair share to support the U.S.
Oh yes. I have a solution, give the 1% an additional tax cut of 20% and they will
tricklepee down the benefits to the rest.If Liberals Hated America we’d VOTE Republican.
Obama-Biden 2012!
Dennis, Columbus, Ohio
This is going to be a loser for the Republicans just like
the Highway Bill that they cannot pass that accounts for 2 million jobs.
Tick Tock, Tick Tock
Not only that; RepubliCONS NEVER mention the burden rising tution costs harm the studens. After they graduate they won't be able to get their transcripts to get a decent job.
If the rich Wall Street bankers can get reimbursed for paying prostitutes as business expenses, why can't hard-working students (our future) get well-deserved break.
All those tax loopholes exploited by corporations (including Wall Street bankers) should be closed to promote the true good cause of student loan reduction.
I am truly worried about the republican tendency to beat up on education from preschool to the university level. Cuts in programs, layoffs of teachers and NCLB were bad enough. Now college kids are supposed to pay higher interest on loans or, according to Romney, hit their parents up for money they don't have. Without good education, we as a nation will be heading to third world status faster than republicans would believe. No education means no innovation.
If only the students could get jobs after they graduate from college, they would be able to pay back their student loans regardless of the interest rate. But we all know that Obamanomics keeps the graduates unemployed and living under their parents roof.
This was supposed to be a temporary program. But once the government gets to spending money the spigot cannot be turned off.
Why don't democrats put together one of their little investigative teams, I hear the one looking into oil speculation is looking for work, and find out why the cost of tuition is soaring every year instead of borrowing more money to pay for it?
Perhaps they could start here
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/nj_comptroller_calls_for_contr.html
Hi Dennis,
Hope all is well with you today. I don't believe this issue is going to be an issue with students, from what I have seen and heard the students are more interested in JOBS than interest on their student loans. I believe this is another wedge issue being used by the Obama Administration and I would hope college students are smart enough to see through the politics of this issue.
BTW, why should students of today pay less than students from a few years ago, is this not pandering?
Good thing the Teapublicans are working to disenfranchise college students as fast as possible. Because this is an issue that will motivate them to vote in November.
Teapubs must feel really confident about their voter suppression efforts.
And besides that sf, from what I understand, this will affect NEW loans not ones already in force.
Without an education our youth wouldn't be eligible for these jobs that our tea party friends are talking about. fox news is doing a great job of dumbing down America. The rebublican house wants to finish the job. These kids deserve low interest loans.
Wayne - the GOP wants people less educated. It's the only way they can get votes!
Also what ever happened to investing in our future, I always thought that our children are our future and to invest in that was a good thing.
I guess i was wrong
The way I understand this is the rate of 3.4% has only been in effect for 1 yr. It was gradually reduced from 6.8% over 5 yrs, most students that took out the Stafford Loans knew the rate would be increased in July 2012, so they are not being blind sided.
BTW, 6.8% is still a pretty low interest rate compared with private student loans which average 9 - 11%. Outstanding student loans are currently around 1 Trillion dollars, we do not have the money to continue funding these loans at the number they are currently being funded.
sfcret im not an expert on this thing and i wont pretend to be. But it seems to me that investing in the future generations of our country would be a good way to spend our tax dollars.
but that is just my opinion, like i stated in my other comment above.
So you'd rather we increase the debt burden on young adults--who are, on average, $20,000 in debt upon graduation-- while they are also struggling to find jobs?
You'd rather we give another tax break to large corporations instead, corporations that have sent American jobs overseas?
BTW, 6.8% is a very high interest rate compared to what banks are offering customers on their savings accounts and CD's.
I hope this latest screw job by the GOP is turned right back on them in November.
I am truly worried about the democrats tendency to indoctronate from preschool to the university level
Let me guess, the GOP/TP are now going to follow their new leader, plutocrat Romney. Why, they can just privatize these loans again, giving banks government subsidies for student loans--in addition to the interest collected--and guaranteeing the loans thus removing any risk. Yep, privatize profits and socialize debt, that's the corporate welfare way.
I just saw the post above. Indoctrinate? What do you think religion and the Flat earth Society does? This is the reason why conservative women, middle class and the working poor, etc. vote against their own best interests. Nothing like the Catholic Church, run by men, telling women what they can or cannot do with their bodies. WTF? You need to be deprogrammed yourself sonmanvb.
kaybeetoys -- Agreed.
You know how rightwingers love to b!tch about how their taxes are spent? I'd like to know that my taxes are going to public schools to educate future generations, NOT the $1,000 per child tax credit that is spent on gawd knows what. If we got rid of tax credits, we would have a lot more funds for the best interests of all citizens. These tax credits are redistribution of wealth, damn socialist rightwingers -- Plus corporate welfare per my post above.
The rightwing are hypocrites and ignoramuses.
Cry-baby Boehner can't handle the Teagaggers because they will NOT make any deals and they do not compromise.
Boehner may as well just sit and wait until he's replaced, by Nancy Pelosi.
Obama/Biden 2012
Yes, hueydriver9id, liberals are certified whiners, always were, and probably always will be.
Just waiting for the day when you can not take anything else from the successful folks. We can only support the Democrats and their re-distribution idiocies for so long, until the plate is empty.
Republicans don't have a "vision for America".
Republicans' "vision" is specially reserved for ONLY the top 1%ers.
Obama/Biden 2012
The liberal whiners are always crying about how the government owes us, the government has to take care of us, the government knows better and should take care of us from cradle to grave. The liberals like to blame everyone except their own incompetence.
F the democrats. They lowered the rate when they had complete control of Congress and set the expiration date close to the elections just so they could look like they're fighting for the little guy. It was a plan to raise taxes and they now find themselves in a pickle. The repubs have said they want the loan rates to remain low but the dems won't compromise on how to pay for it. What don't they understand about not raising taxes? Why aren't they sticking to their "paygo" proposal that they made such a big friggen deal about? Game playing is getting old and the shellacking will continue in November.
Progressives are a failed experiment.
I have a solution - as the holder of $40,000 in student loans who will see his rate double thanks to the GOP, I'll get my new job oversees, become a citizens of that country and tell the USA to @!$%# off and eat my goddamn student loans.
The GOP want to steal money from the old and poor so they can line their own damn pocket - enough is enough.
Let America become a libertarian wasteland like Somalia - I for one am sick of fighting these retarded fascists from the Teapubli@!$%# Party.
madgavar, you're too stupid to hold $40k in student loans or you're a liberal arts major. NEW LOANS will be at 6.8% if an agreement isn't reached; existing loan rates won't change. what's wrong with you liberals? That's right you've never had a job, a mortgage or paid back a loan so you don't know how it works.
Boner wants to F hard working students
Pigo, sounds like you went to the same liberal arts college as madgavar. The impasse is over how to pay for the lower loan rate. Nobody is trying to F the students.
I hope that the students remember who is F-ing them on election day. Punishing the GOP at the polls is the way to stop the bleeding out of America.
working the problem is most college students think voting is something you do to pick the winner of American Idol and to them Obama is an idol.
nevermind.
Romney: He's NOT in it for YOU.
Frankly, I think this might be a good place to start demonstrating that the parties can work together. After a point, we should be asking ourselves whether we are actually helping kids by assisting them into debt so they can pursue their lifelong dream of getting a degree in Comparative Albanian Literature. We're talking social policy here.
Are we really helping kids who choose majors based on the fact that they have no math or science requirements? Are we helping them buy a ticket to an Occupy Movement near you?
The government is not a bottomless piggy bank. We have some tough choices to make. This is a really fine place to start.
Excuse me. Do you folks read? Please read instead of posting nothing but negativity. Both houses are to blame for not coming to an agreement.
I think this is one where they can come to agree on. Somewhere in the middle.
I'd like to think that Republicans would open to a compromise, but given their track record in the last year and a half, I'm guessing that even if Obama agrees to EVERYTHING that is in those documents, the Tea Party wing won't go along, because they don't want to be seen as doing anything to help the president.
Michael, you got that perfectly right!
Furthermore, the new Teagaggers that have been sent up to Washington have specific instructions from their electorate NOT to compromise.
Obama/Biden 2012
Alan Simpson Slams Fellow Republicans For Unwillingness To Compromise
Excerpts:
In his characteristically colorful style, Simpson told CNN's Fareed Zakaria that Republicans' rigid opposition to new tax revenues has hampered productivity and diminished the chances of reaching an agreement with Democrats on debt reduction.
"You can't cut spending your way out of this hole," Simpson, who was appointed as co-chair of President Obama's Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform in 2010, said. "You can't grow your way out of this hole, and you can't tax your way out of this hole. So put that in your pipe and smoke it, we tell these people. This is madness."
The former senator, along with debt commission co-chair Erskine Bowles, developed a plan in 2010 for bringing down the top tax rate and lowering the deficit by repealing a number of tax cuts and credits. The initial plan, commonly known as Simpson-Bowles, was mostly ignored by lawmakers. A bipartisan budget modeled after their report was rejected by the House earlier this year.
HIGHLIGHTS
During the interview Sunday, he expressed frustration with his party's focus on social issues, as well as the ability of outspoken figures like Americans for Tax Reform head Grover Norquist to drive the conversation.
"I guess I'm known as a RINO now, which means a Republican in name only, because, I guess, of social views, perhaps, or common sense would be another one, which seems to escape members of our party," Simpson said.
"For heaven's sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes saying that if you raise taxes one penny, he'll defeat you. He can't murder you. He can't burn your house. The only thing he can do to you, as an elected official, is defeat you for reelection. And if that means more to you than your country when we need patriots to come out in a situation when we're in extremity, you shouldn't even be in Congress."
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/243558.html
This Congress has done less than any in decades. I don't really expect much from either house or either party right now.
Its hard to get anything done without comprise. and we all know compromising in congress has died.
Its hard to get anything done without comprise. and we all know compromising in congress has died
True .. and sad.. :(
How was Congress able to loan billions to banks and investment firms with "pay it back when you can" terms?
Why can't they do the same for our children?
It's OUR money (or debt)....Start helping the citizens instead of private companies
jw, right on!
Can anyone tell me which party was in power when they first lowered the rates and set them to rise now?
TO: mikehataway who wrote:
That kind of sounds like a loaded question. Why don't you Google it?
Romney 2012 - Tax Work not Wealth
The idea was floated to Romney that since "risk-takers" should not be taxed as highly as workers, the tax rate on gambling winnings should be lowered to 15% - the same as hedge-fund managers and venture capitalists. After all, the "risk-takers" are the "job-creators", and their gains should be taxed at a lower rate than the earned income of those working for a living.
Romney shot the proposal down, saying the difference is that gamblers are betting with their own money, unlike hedge-fund managers and venture capitalists. You can only be rewarded by betting with other peoples money.
I still don´t get why education is so expensive here. I am preparing for an entrance exam , university back in Europe, long distance study - and even with flying there 6 x a year it will be half the price of University of Arizona.
and our education system isn't even that great. You would think that we would want to ensure that our children get a good education, because they are the future of the country.
ArbyH, you asked:
I can't say for sure, but I believe it's a supply and demand thing. Millions and millions - maybe billions - of illegal aliens are trying to get into the University of Arizona.
David: I don't think there is a major in..... ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE.
Ok, David,
University of Arizona enrolled 53,298 undergrads last year - 90 % of their applicants.
University I am applying : 54,405 applicants and admitted 13,649. This University has actually more programs/fields of study. But they do not have any athletics programs.
So as for that supply and demand, yes about 10% more applicants for University of Arizona, but way harder to get to UK. Here I am, old and fragile and studying like hell, just trying to get in.
Peace lotsanumbers:
I was of course, referring to Canadians.
(red face) my bad.......
Higher student loan rates & amounts = less chance that the American University System will become an even bigger example of what's happening to the United States Postal Service.
For example, without high tuition: (1) there would be no way to pay retirement accounts of oldster professors and staff; (2) universities couldn't continue to engage in so many rash construction projects like they are, without invoking overuse of tax funds; (3) there would be simply too many students competing for admission at the lower tuition rates. ...
Republicans time to put up or shut up. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, they yell at the cameras yet they spend their time sticking it to students, the elderly, women, disabled, trying to pass a bill just today called PRENDA, lying about women trying to get selective sex abortions. America this is shameful, this constant spending million of hours attacking Women Productive rights, Roe vs. Wade is the law and they have spent Billions trying to Be Above The Law in attempts to remove it.
So Republicans have proved when they don't like a law rather than being lawful and take appropriate measures to be heard they "Hold Americans Hostage" like little children because they can't get their way.
Immediately all the Billions spent in state houses across this country by Republicans should be Demanded By The Public a "Refund"
I don't like abortionk don't agree with it but it's the law and spending billions of Taxpayer Dollars trying to "Be Above the Law is just wrong, while millions are homeless, jobeless, Retirements threatened, they are once again threatening to "Default" get ready America and hang on for the ride. This group has proved they will do anyting to Remove Registered Voters off the Voting Rolls, if they can't win it "Fair" they will win it by Hook or Crook
It's time for our country to take a good long look. We know that the only Voter Fraud to date is By Republican Officials.
Just a few days ago, the Election Chair in Michigan was sentenced for Voter Fraud, voting using his grilfriends address to keep a 5 figure jobe with the city council, lying using his Ex wife, address. The Governor of Michigan was holding the seat for him refused to replace him hoping the Judge would not give him a harsh sentence, well he did the right thing Sentenced him.
Rep. Thaddeus McCodder was al over Acron on every camera, now he's being looked into for Voter Fraud lying the signatures he needed to collect to qualify to run for his seat was all Duplicates, Not real People, he only needed 2,000 signatures to qualify, every page was Bogus, and he's now blaming someone else saying they were out to get him.
Come on people this guy is making more than $176,000 a Year in Congress and didn't care enough to check to make sure he got "Legal Signatures" to qualify knowing his job depended on it. This is just ridiculous. Who want a representative in congress this Lazy. The Appropriate departements are looking into this and said they will determine if additional possibilites are involved. He should be fired. Too lazy to get 2,000 signatures to qualify run for the Job he has, these people in congress are lazy focusing on the wrong issues
Most important Republicans are doing everything but focusing on Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, they are Blocking Jobs all because they want to evict the President and this strategy has been in place from day one.
America is this really how you want to be treated?
Student loans? Republicans are trying to take Money From Womens Health Care Preventative Health Care to cover Student Loans, Democrats want to Stop the Corporate Handouts of TaxPayer Money to Big Oil and others to pay for the loans %
Which makes since to you. Republicans are fighting against Women's Health while Giving you Taxpayer Dolalrs to Big Oil and others and sticking it to your Kids all while yelling "Where Are The Jobs?"
Stop blaming the GOP for this. It was Obama who added the expiration date of June 2012 on the reduced student loan rates. The rate reduction was never meant to be permanent. Had Obama had the foresight to know and plan ahead and budget the right way, HE would have already had a bipartisan agreement in place to seamlessly apply the lost funds from an agreed location. As usual President Obama plays the shell game, gives people teaser "breaks" then sits there scratching his head when it's time to move forward with his previous budget mistakes. He has no one to blame but himself. I agree that rates for our college grads should be affordable, but I paid my loans off at a rate over 6% and did just fine. So the next time President Obama makes it sound like he's giving you a great deal or break, you better be thinking about what it's going to lead to 2-5 years down the road. For instance the assinine 2% social security tax "break". If the Bush era tax breaks are left to expire those of you in the lower income brackets are going to see a 7% tax INCREASE. Social security trust fund has to be re-funded to its former rate withholding levels. If the Bush era breaks end, ALL brackets increase. No more 10% rate. The lowest bracket becomes 15%.
This President is foolish man with a lot of wind in him but no sail. Money is a very elusive concept to him. You may think it all sounds wonderful, but learn to do the numbers over time. Follow the trends and see the high level of volatility a leader with no economic sense of balance can do.
Add that to an uber liberal agenda that supports the anything goes mentality and you can dang well be sure you will be witnessing societal breakdown to the nth degree. I am lucky to have what I have and be what I am without the need for government help, therapy or drugs to stabilize my moods.
You want to fall for Obama's fairy dust world perceptions, that's fine.
Best of luck to you.
The best thing that could happen to this country is to allow the tax cuts to expire. We need tax reform and that's not going to happen if repubs keep tax rates low. Reagan lowered the tax rate by doing tax reform - he cut rates and eliminated deductions to pay for the rate changes. The Bush tax cuts cut the rate but did nothing to pay for the change. And they insist on promoting the lie that tax cuts raise tax revenue. It doesn't. Tax reform does. Grover Norquist is lieing to you.
The 2nd best thing would be to re-establish the draft whenever we become entangled in a conflict that requires more than 50,000 troops being deployed, and raise the fed gas tax by $1 to pay for it.
The 3rd best thing would be to reform ALL social programs. Adjust SS withholding ceilings, beef up fraud detection and enforcement for medicare/medicaid, adjust payment schedules for SS (raise the age parameters) to name a few things that could be done.
I think he was hoping there would be some adults in the room that could make a decision for their constituents, but all we get are people with their own agendas with no regard for the people that put them in office to make responsible votes. I can't imagine how this could look any worse for the Republicans at this point. Come fall in the debates, they won't have one issue to stand on after two years of stalemate in congress and refusal to work with the President.
Fill in the blanks.
The only ones that benefit from cheap money are the universities who make millions by raising tuition rates and delivering ess in the way of a quality education.
Since when was it mandatory to go to college? Since when was it mandatory to get a loan for anything? I paid my own student loans off on the old system without government assistance and my parents barely made a penny more than what would have qualified me for a more preferrable rate and assistance, that said I paid the debt off. Universities have become as bloated as the government has and have just as much of a penchant for overspending. Not to mention that universities do a poor job of helping students when it comes to their course of study, how many times does a student change his or her area of focus and not even land a job in the field they studied, why not vary the interest rate on the availability of jobs in that particular area of study. If the student wants to major in something that will not generate them any income, a good way to discourage it would be to jack up the rates on them and lower it on more viable areas that will garner jobs and more immediate income. "If you do not use your head you are destined to hit it", "too many poor choices will make you a poor person"
Spoken like a true Republican. I take it that you're against preventing the interest rates on student loans from doubling. Sheesh!
As a graduate student at a state university, I feel as if I am being punished for wanting to educate myself and others. There are very few incentives for American teenagers to go to college. The fees are so high that most middle class families cannot afford to pay full tuition without some sort of financial aid. Unlike most countries, we do not give students an allowance while attending post-bachelor degree programs, and unfortunately, tuition is raised. What incentives are there? .... Paying back loans that sometimes end up being double due to high interest rates? Having our hard earned money foot the bill for mistakes of corporations and upper class white men who cannot relate to most of the people who actually live in this country, yes, that's us, THE PEOPLE! I thought the youths were supposed to be the future of our country? It's sad that people who want to better themselves do not have the resources to do so. We are democracy no more....
Those countries that you speak of are having what the real world calls austerity cuts, partially but not entirely due to programs you are wanting. Look up those european countries, how are they doing financially as a nation? This is the tip of the ice berg. More austerity to come here, not to mention the already increasing inflation that apparently does not exist according to the government. Last but not least you make the choice to pursue a higher education in prospects have getting paid more than those who did not, how do you figure we compensate those that decide not to go to college and take on burdensome student loans. Those that do not go to college apparently make less than those who did, why should someone that decided to get a job that did not require college, have to pay for your education through his taxes while you are studying, then when you realize that the field you studied in has no placement and now that you have found yourself educated do not wish to take on a job that you would find demeaning. In that scenario the person who did not go to college is making more than you and is still paying for your education. College is a choice.
dustin, what in the hell is your point? Over the last four years in-state tuition in our State has gone from $6500 to $9300! If you think the average family can afford to send their kids to college without taking out a loan you've got your head in the sand. You may want a nation of under-educated people but I much prefer that the majority of our children have accress to college. History has shown that we're a stronger Nation because of it.
Dustin, education is a right. But in that sense I guess you are correct, it has become a choice. Unfortunately many high school students don't have a choice and/or can't afford it, therefore, they end up working minimum wage jobs, the cycle continues, the same thing happens to their children, they have to go on a welfare and we end up having to pay for them anyway. So maybe, just maybe, paying taxes for education isn't such a bad idea.... With that being said, you will be more than happy to know I've chosen a field that has 99% job placement proceeding graduation allowing me to pay back my burdensome student loans.
The only thing this do nothing congress passes seems to be raises for themselves. Anything else is a political stalemate reminiscent of 5 year old childish antics. When did comprimise become a dirty word, and political suicide for anyone who suggests it.
Looking at the posts from Obama supporters I am somewhat stunned that any of you would care because none of you appear to be college material and the closer you get to the first post the less likely the posters appear capable of even picking fruit. A person with an insatiable desire to post first, always using the same inane, childish prose, should hope that when we get a new health care plan that it has allowances for a large number of mental health visits.
Jeff, I've got two advanced degrees. Have you passed your GED yet? Why not stick to the subject of this thread instead of aimlessly wandering into feeble attempts at demeaning an entire group of people who happen to have different views than you.
Jeff 157,
Another GOP clueless loser.
Why are there so MANY of you????
Here they go again! Repubs will never allow any piece of Obama-supported legislation to pass the House even if it were a declaration honoring mothers. What a bunch of pathetically selfish losers.
Stick it to the college kids and maybe they will change the future.
Why is it that the Republicans almost always seem to be on the wrong side of every vote in Congress. I think that if you'd ask the average guy or gal on the street what Congress should do, help pay for kids to go to college by taking the money from preventative health care programs or from Corporations making record profits, I'm pretty sure they would say take it from Corporations.
The Republican Party, we're looking out for the little guy, the little guy with the big bucks.
As much as I see the benefit of the youth of America being responsible for paying off a portion of their own education, the fact that a student loan carries a higher interest rate than a home loan is outragious. Maybe the senate should start here in terms of reaching a compromise.
LMAO i just have one question for the GOP..if Obama's economic policies are so bad, why is their candidate promising an unemployment rate we are already projected to be at??!?! HMMM lol so much for that.
Let's not forget that under this president we eliminated the middlemen (banks) which saved taxpayers 61 billion. 9 billion of that went to healthcare. The rest went back into education. In true GOP fashion, they will either gut education or make sure you cannot afford it, or both.
To top it all off, Romney wants to put the banks back in the middle of the loan process. Paying them to shuffle papers. As for my student loans, they have never been handled better since the banks were shown the door! I can access all my information online in one spot. I can even get a live person on the line if I call in!
We will soon face another financial crisis, that of student loan defaults and the GOP wants to make sure of it.
Tammy you need to wake. There is almost a trillion dollars of student loand in default currently. What difference does the interest rate make when loans are never repaid. Do I want my tax dollars to be loaned to these deadbeats!!!! HELL NO!!!! Certainly don't want 1 cent of my tax dollars to be loaned to illegals or their children. Stupid some schools give them reduced tuition now. Student loans should come from the banks who will attempt to collect the money. From the government the loans are like a gift in many cases.
Who supports the Democrats and donates heavily to their campaign? Benefits and retirement for teachers is outlandish as a result. For states to pay they must raise tuition. Put the blame on the correct party. FYI I am a democrat but tired of all the BS.
You are right tom. Only the banks deserve to be bailed out when they are about to default on their debts right? Screw everyone else.
The higher one's education, the less likely they are to vote Republican (a statistical fact). Suppressing education goes along with right wing James Crow, Jr. laws that suppress minority voting. Ignorance and racism are Tea Party Republican ideology. Wingers are fundamentally shoving the Republican Party over a cliff and into the dustbin of failure.
THat is because the higher one's education, the more likely they work for the government and depend upon the government. It is also a fact that the tea party is made up of more educated voted than either the republican or democrat party.