Ex-Private Student Loan CEO Leaves Education Dept, Calls For Cancelling Student Loans

In a strange twist, a top Education Department official who oversaw federal student loans suddenly resigned on Thursday and expressed support for cancelling all student debt.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1257914
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Jail for Betsy. Please.

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Stop threatening and lock her up now.

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Ex-Private Student Loan CEO Leaves Education Dept, Calls For Cancelling Student Loans

Pretty sure there’s a good joke in there somewhere.

More than one, even.

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Time to chant…Lock Her Up!

Still a mystery…

Alfa Bank made up 80% of the DNS lookups to the Trump server, but another 19% came from Spectrum Health, a company owned by the husband of Betsy DeVos.

So what is her husband up to next to Alfa Bank communicating with the TT server?

https://www.axios.com/fbi-still-investigating-trump-server-link-to-russian-bank-1513300861-138e5453-4274-4e4b-b828-343b6550327b.html

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Perhaps her brother Eric Prince can create a shadow army to defend his sister and her anti-education department. He can hire that idiot baseball umpire who’s planning on starting a civil (or as he spelled it “cival”, God help us) war over Trump’s impeachment.

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Bett-See violated orders 16,000 times to stop collecting on loans. So what is the Judge waiting for?

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???What???
He just couldn’t take being evil anymore?
He had an epiphany looking out at his million dollar view?
His secret polls show he can will a legislative seat on this issue?

Motive?

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According to the Atlantic News Journal, Johnson is trying (along with about 500 other folks) to get Gov. Kemp to appoint him to fill the rest of Isakson’s term. If this doesn’t work he will run as an R in 2020. The AJC reports that “His proposal would provide students a $50,000 grant for their college education and other work training and licensing costs. People who have already paid their student loan debts would receive tax credits up to $50,000. It would be financed by a 1% tax on revenue generated by all employers – including non-profit organizations.” https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/federal-student-aid-official-resigns-post-apply-for-georgia-senate-seat/PnmSqIUSqZy9l9xPUkl3GK/#

Since the Democratic nominee is likely to be someone with a proposal for loan cancellation, it should be interesting to see how Individual-1 (if he’s ever able to run in 2020) will handle the competition.

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Has somebody filed a motion for contempt? I could look it up, but I thought someone might know.

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So ironic and hilarious. “Lock her up” will never be Hillary’s fate, but a lot of Trumpers could very well see the inside of a jail.

Beautiful.

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Does that include churches? :grinning:

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Indeed…meanwhile, HRC was cleared of “But Her Emails” because it was “Nothing Burger” BUT it damaged her campaign in 2016 and the rest is “American Carnage” history!

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Let’s see if it also damages Wilbur Ross. Woudn’t you just love to see his private emails?

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The headline’s somewhat unclear. My first read was exactly the story - the guy is calling for cancelling debt. My second read was, “waitaminnit, that can’t be. He’s calling for an end to student loan programs, because that’s the way they roll.” Then looking at the story, he is calling for debt cancellation.

Now, I have to wonder how many Georgia red state pull yourself up by your bootstraps keep the welfare state out of my pockets types will show up to get their 50K back.

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Heard the worse kind of student debt discussion,student drops out no degree but student debt incurred.

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Did anyone check to see if the Trump server is in Ukraine, Russia, or some other place than Trump Tower?

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Meanwhile, a judge has threatened to hold DeVos in jail for refusing court orders to stop collecting loan payments from students of the for-profit Corinthian Colleges."

Hold her in jail? Does that mean she is already in jail. If so great.

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TPM, please, please keep following up on this story.

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Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up.

If ever there was a rich bitch deserving of jail it is Betsy.

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