Biden says he's breaking campaign pledge
to provide 'limited' student loan forgiveness
and is now considering wiping 'substantial'
amount of $1.6tn owed by 43,000 borrowers
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Ronny Reyes
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
4/27/2022 5:13:19 AM
Joe Biden is considering reneging on a campaign promise to cancel limited amounts of student debt, and is now mulling far more substantial coverage of the $1.6trillion in debt owed by 43,000 people. Biden alluded to his plan during a meeting on Monday with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, where he told Rep. Tony Cardenas, a California Democrat, that he had plans that would please the group.The president previously supported canceling up to $10,000 of debt per student, but is now said to be open to forgiving a larger - if unspecified amount.It also remains unclear exactly how many students could be affected,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 4/27/2022 5:47:50 AM (No. 1139368)
Generation Snowflake crying and refusing to be grown-ups and honor their obligations.
But here is a thought: If debt is to be “forgiven,” it should be by the shockingly greedy universities who jacked up the costs in the first place.
40 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
franq 4/27/2022 5:52:15 AM (No. 1139369)
Only 43k people? And they owe that much? C'mon man.
Must be friends of Zhoa.
And I was walking at the foot of the Himalayas, minding my own business, uh, uh, when the, the, the...
16 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
minuteman 4/27/2022 6:06:03 AM (No. 1139381)
I have to dust off my copy of the Constitution to see where it says the Resident has the power to eliminate personal debt.
54 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/27/2022 6:25:42 AM (No. 1139386)
“I like to be in America
Okay by me in America
Everything free in America
For a small fee in America“
West Side Story
12 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/27/2022 6:32:19 AM (No. 1139390)
The military used to pay off student loans when someone enlisted. And that goes back to 1982. Do they still do that? If so, how m,any recruits will they lose if Dementia Jo's handlers pay off those loans first? How about non-profits? Public Health Service? School districts?
I worry that all of the consequences won't be considered when such a change is made.
And how about university tuition? Overpriced schools can reassure recruits that yes, our tuition and housing costs are outrageously high, but we expect a president in the near future will pay off your student loans. Did you see our new private apartment dorms? Expensive? Sure, but...
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 4/27/2022 6:33:54 AM (No. 1139391)
Desperately trying to buy votes.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 4/27/2022 6:36:01 AM (No. 1139393)
A lot of money for 43,000 votes which probably were for Dems anyway.
18 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
5 handicap 4/27/2022 6:43:37 AM (No. 1139399)
Literally ANYTHING for a vote!
17 people like this.
Is this just another way for this corrupt government to siphon away more hard-earned money to pay for potential votes??
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/27/2022 6:51:41 AM (No. 1139406)
$1,600,000,000,000 divided by 43,000 people is $37,209,302 per person!
25 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 4/27/2022 6:53:34 AM (No. 1139409)
Nothing political going on here! Bernie and Warren are now the heads of the democRAT party!
14 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
mifla 4/27/2022 7:17:26 AM (No. 1139421)
The Dems know that they are toast come November, so they are not worried about a taxpayer backlash.
8 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 4/27/2022 7:26:09 AM (No. 1139427)
I doubt this blatant pandering will buy many votes for Democrat candidates.
7 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
downnout 4/27/2022 7:28:54 AM (No. 1139430)
If this happens, every employer should ask their prospective employee if they had student loans and how they handled the debt. If it was forgiven (by we sucker taxpayers), the prospective employee should be tossed out.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 4/27/2022 7:35:53 AM (No. 1139436)
What about students in college now getting loans?
8 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lazyman 4/27/2022 7:41:31 AM (No. 1139441)
Has he ever said no to any spending? 9% inflation will seem like the good old days in a few years.
10 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
ironchefw 4/27/2022 7:46:22 AM (No. 1139446)
Is this a winning Democrat agenda?
Don't enforce laws.
Let criminals out of jail.
Spend like there's no tomorrow.
No national border.
Mask forever.
Trans every kid.
Make gas $10 a gallon
Blame Trump.
It sure seems that way. Will they get even one vote in November?
15 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/27/2022 8:01:59 AM (No. 1139458)
I have only one question - With whose money?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/27/2022 8:02:49 AM (No. 1139459)
And bidu’s cut would be …?
I guess that means the lenders get the money paid back 100% … now? Just the ones in default with lots of fees and interest unpaid? Schmoe always loved the credit card companies.
Funny, interest rates are rising so i guess the spread between borrowing costs and the student loan rate isn’t as profitable. So schmoe has been ordered to have the government pay the lenders back immediately. Schmoe always follows the instructions included in the bag of money.
Boohoo for the students. Everybody’s happy and the taxpayers are sound asleep.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 4/27/2022 8:08:42 AM (No. 1139466)
Did they mean 43,000,000 borrowers? $1.6 trillion / 43,000,000 is approximately $37,000.
5 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 4/27/2022 8:10:09 AM (No. 1139467)
Biden's handlers are running this up the flag pole to see how many salute. If they want to go down in flames, it may as well be in a blaze of “unglory”, and be a big FU to the Republicans as they go out the door.
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And where's my cut for working and paying off both my and my son's tuition? Once this starts don't these paid off students realize they will be paying the rest of their lives for others tuition bills.
12 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
westsnoop 4/27/2022 8:19:59 AM (No. 1139473)
There must be no more student loans then.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hisself 4/27/2022 8:29:29 AM (No. 1139485)
So, are they going to reimburse me, with interest, for the student loans I repaid in the '70s??
Better yet, just cancel my tax debt.
9 people like this.
Ummmm... I don't think the President has any authority to cancel student loan debt... but I'll enjoy watching the show when he tries it.
9 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/27/2022 8:34:45 AM (No. 1139493)
Just in case we haven't noticed, our government is forcibly transitioning the country to socialism by spreading the wealth. The 40% increase in the money supply, tax the rich, take money away from lenders and give "free" money to borrowers, its everything Obama promised. So far they are using a pretense of legality. This is an overthrow of the constitutional republic.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
planetgeo 4/27/2022 8:46:39 AM (No. 1139506)
Confirms (again) the "Planetgeo Postulate": Democrats are born without the Math gene.
3 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
czechlist 4/27/2022 8:48:14 AM (No. 1139509)
#16 if calculated using older methods, inflation is currently over 16%.
Decades ago the creative government began to use "lower level substitution" methods - in essence, if the price of something went up but consumers can purchase cheaper substitutes (generic) that is not considered inflationary. It also began to include non-nescessity, former luxury, items in the mix as more people could afford to purchase them. Also the "Core Inflation Rate" so often reported does not adequately include food and energy costs - the government just cannot control and take any resposibility for the weather so we'll ignore other associated costs the government does control.
6 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/27/2022 8:53:15 AM (No. 1139512)
My grandfather paid for my college education back in the early 70s. He died in 1976, a year after I graduated. If todays blacks are due reparations for being descendants of slaves, aren’t I due a government check for what my grandfather spent on me? He was, after all, a taxpayer. Which is a form of slavery - having the fruits of one’s labor taken away by force.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/27/2022 9:11:50 AM (No. 1139529)
Okay, President Jerkwater. You now owe my brother's estate over $6,000, with interest since 1963. Brother flew many ''hazardous duty missions'' while serving our country in Viet Nam. He sent his hazardous duty pay to my college to keep me enrolled. Big brother advised against a college loan. You can send his refund in care of his military cemetery. Address upon request.
6 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/27/2022 9:17:27 AM (No. 1139536)
Biden is breaking one campaign pledge to make a bigger, more ridiculous campaign pledge to please another specific voting block. Maybe somebody told him that Hispanics are turning republican all of a sudden. What about the black people, Joe, you haven't fulfilled your promises to them yet? Debt is never "forgiven" it's just assigned to somebody else to pay.
7 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/27/2022 9:20:42 AM (No. 1139542)
I had no idea Biden had to power to forgive contractual obligations of other people.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Kafka2 4/27/2022 9:48:36 AM (No. 1139579)
I hope the "Joe six-packs" (hard working people that didn't go to college) of this country resent Biden and the Democrats putting the burden of paying the student loans of college students that can not or do not want to pay them. They pay their bills. They do not need the added burden of paying the bills of deadbeat college students.
4 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/27/2022 10:13:22 AM (No. 1139592)
I’m pretty sure these loans are from private lenders but guaranteed by the US.
So that means the US is paying the private lenders. Probably the loans are in default with huge default interest (and Covid deferred interest) and default penalties.
So perhaps a $100,000 loan has $60,000 of interest and penalties accumulated.
Schmoe has always taken care of lenders. Think of all the big credit card companies who located to Delaware so they can charge 24% interest.
So characterize the payoff as helping poor students. Of course government guaranteed loans is what the lenders agreed to.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 4/27/2022 10:27:38 AM (No. 1139610)
All Hail Obiden, emperor of the Swamp Creatures. With a mere utterance, he parts the seas, brings rain to drought-stricken lands, and abolishes the debt of those who knowingly and willingly took it on to pursue college degrees with no value. The Geriatric god reigns supreme!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Ribicon 4/27/2022 10:44:04 AM (No. 1139628)
What about car loans, mortgages, credit card debt, medical debt, back taxes and penalties like First Son? Doesn't everyone deserve relief? It's right there in the Constitution; bankers need to be taken off the hook for underperforming loans they wrote.
3 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
pmcclure 4/27/2022 11:19:26 AM (No. 1139659)
These former students will pay the cost many times over in the boost in inflation that this idiotic action will cause.
2 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 4/27/2022 11:22:17 AM (No. 1139664)
1.6 trillion? 46,000 people? H-e-l-l-o!!! The math doesn’t work moron!
5 people like this.
Reply 39 - Posted by:
zoidberg 4/27/2022 11:38:22 AM (No. 1139680)
Welfare for the wealthy. Republicans need to jump all over this.
3 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
DVC 4/27/2022 11:44:01 AM (No. 1139687)
NOT within his power.
3 people like this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/27/2022 12:03:05 PM (No. 1139719)
Buyin' Votes, pure and simple!
2 people like this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/27/2022 12:28:39 PM (No. 1139752)
If they do cancel student loans, the first priority should be healthcare workers like Registered Nurses and all the people who work in that class delivering healthcare. Physicians and above usually earn enough money to payoff their student loans without suffering any financial distress.
2 people like this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
DrOstrow 4/27/2022 1:23:48 PM (No. 1139799)
To those above who actually did the arithmetic which is at about a 4th grade level -
I came up with the same rough amount - about $38 M I L L I O N per person.
We come to the same spot once again.
Some one or several some ones is/are either
LYING through their teeth or too stupid to be doing ANY job with a paycheck.
There is NO DOOR #3. Logically, it's HAS TO BE one or the other.
They therefore should be immediately fired, kicked out of the building dared to try and
come back inside the building !
This is so pathetic on so many levels !
4 people like this.
Reply 44 - Posted by:
The Remnants 4/27/2022 11:51:46 PM (No. 1140276)
I know nothing about finances, but if you borrow from a bank - if you default, does the bank get their money back by increasing the rate on credit cards?
We are not teaching these kids anything by letting them default. Don't they have Pell Grants anymore? It would never occur to me not to repay a loan, and I finally completed my bachelor's when I was 54 years old.
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