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The Student-Loan Crusader Who Won't Stop Fighting chronicle.com/article/the-st…
You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade…The eyes of the world are upon you. Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle hardened. He will fight savagely. I have full confidence in your courage, devotion, and skill.
Ike
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington, 1st President, 1789-1797
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President, 1861-1865
Much can be done by law toward putting women on a footing of complete & entire equal rights with men…women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter & when their work is as valuable as that of a man, it should be paid as highly.
Theodore Roosevelt
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington, 1st President, 1789-1797
Patrick Donohue retweeted
What you actually have is evidence that investigators obtained donor and merchandise-purchase records through subpoenas in a criminal investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn an election. You have zero evidence that 639,000 Americans were criminally targeted for buying MAGA hats, or that Smith maintained an “enemies list.” You're confusing people appearing in subpoenaed records with people being investigated for crimes. That's not oversight. That's manufacturing persecution out of evidence you either disingenuous and don't understand or are deliberately misrepresenting.
But we all know the truth: you are an unprincipled coward who will be remembered in history as a member of Congress who enabled the rise of 21st-century authoritarianism. THAT will be your legacy.
All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.
John Quincy Adams, 6th President, 1825-1829
Patrick Donohue retweeted
Yes, this speaks to the fact the college education should be a public good not a money making scheme for the government.
A College graduate pays about $7,100 more per year in federal income taxes than does average high school graduate.
Over 25-years, that's $175,000.
Perhaps the taxpayer has gotten a return on their "investment" w/o the usurious capitalized interest.
@POTUS @RepSaraJacobs @nytimes
A College graduate pays about $7,100 more per year in federal income taxes than does average high school graduate.
Over 25-years, that's $175,000.
Perhaps the taxpayer has gotten a return on their "investment" w/o the usurious capitalized interest.
@POTUS @RepSaraJacobs @nytimes
Whenever I hear someone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln, 16th President, 1861-1865
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy, 35th President, 1961-1963
The chains of military despotism once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
William Henry Harrison, 9th President, 1841
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield, 20th President, 1881
We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace—business & financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
We know that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Patrick Donohue retweeted
The @GOP will be annihilated if they don't do this before the mid-terms.
Tick Tock.
@JoshHawley @ChuckGrassley @Jim_Jordan
Patrick Donohue retweeted
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To: @realDonaldTrump
CC: @JDVance , @LindaMcMahon, @EDUnderSecKent
Mr. President,
You need to return bankruptcy protections to federal student loans before the mid-terms. This is urgent:
-Scrap the "New Bankruptcy Process" initiated by your predecessor.
-Instruct your Departments of Education/Justice to stop opposing student loan borrowers in bankruptcy proceedings.
- Tell your Congress to repeal 11 USC 523(a) 8
-Call for a 0.1% endowment tax on the wealthiest colleges (with endowments exceeding $1 Billion) to cover the $6 Billion annual cost of this.
The federal student loan program is in catastrophic failure, Mr. President. 37 million citizens- 85% of all borrowers- are hopelessly underwater on their loans. 70% are either republican or independent. This includes around 14% of the adult, GOP voting base.
While none of these people want to file bankruptcy (and few ultimately will), all of them feel the predatory weight of this unconstitutional lending program on their shoulders. They vote.
You know well the importance of uniform bankruptcy rights, Mr. President. It is an essential pillar of our country. The Founders called for uniform bankruptcy laws at the front of the Constitution for a very good reason.
This is it. This predatory, hyper-inflationary, nationall threatening loan regime is precisely what the Founders want to avoid.
You need an October Surprise Mr. President. This is it. There is no other action you can take in line with your principles that will bring more votes your way. 70% of Massie's constituents are strongly for this. So is Ron DeSantis, and more prominent conservatives than I can mention here.
If you fail to act, the GOP will, frankly, be annihilated.
Please do the right thing. This is your legacy.
Good Luck and Godspeed-
@mtaibbi @TuckerCarlson @FoxEbenBrown
