Piling On: DeVos, Trump Make Student Loan Crisis Worse

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Student loan borrowers who worked hard to get an education, and took on the personal responsibility to pay for it, deserve to be treated fairly. Yet with DeVos heading the Trump Administration’s education policy, Republicans seem to have grown even more out of touch.

DeVos has as much experience with the challenges of paying for higher education as she does with supporting public schools. Under questioning, she revealed that no one in her family has ever taken out a student loan. Must be nice.

Juxtapose that with a young man I met while traveling across Wisconsin. He was the first member of his family to attend college, but after his tuition rose $1,600 during his first two years at a small campus within the state university system, he dropped out and enrolled in the Army.

The young man spoke of conducting daily patrols in Kandahar when he was in Afghanistan. During his limited access to a makeshift communications hut, there were times when instead of calling his parents, he would need to call and ensure his student loan payment was received.  

Summing up the totality of his experience, he told me, “You shouldn’t have to go to war just to go to college.”

“You shouldn’t have to go to war just to go to college.”
Already in America, the laws are stacked against people who need to borrow for their education in favor of the banks. Federal student loans, like the high crimes of fraud, kidnapping, murder, war crimes, and treason, have no statute of limitations. On at least a monthly basis, my group learns of grieving parents who survive the death of a young adult child, only to learn that as cosigners on their late son or daughter’s student loan, they will be forced to pay its full balance.

In addition, student loans are not dischargeable in bankruptcy, a mechanism Donald Trump has used for his businesses on six occasions.

Now, under the Trump Administration, the few protections that do exist for borrowers are under threat. During her confirmation hearing, DeVos was asked by Senator Warren whether she would uphold an Obama Administration rule written to target fly-by-night, for-profit colleges that load students with crushing debt while failing to prepare them for gainful employment.

DeVos would not commit to maintaining the regulation.

http://progressive.org/magazine/devos-trump-make-student-loan-crisis-worse/

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Wasn't it Trump who said he liked uneducated people? Apparently they like him too. We see evidence to that, daily. Maybe he wants the entire country to be uneducated, so he can control their opinions more easily.

 

Ignorance is strength.

 

 

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Just now, CaliCat said:

 

Wasn't it Trump who said he liked uneducated people? Apparently they like him too. We see evidence to that, daily. Maybe he wants the entire country to be uneducated, so he can control their opinions more easily.

 

Ignorance is strength.

 

 

trump only wants the best of the best in america, and as we all know in trump's world the best of the best have plenty of money to pay for whatever degree they'd like to hang on their wall. cha-ching.