Wow! I have two uncles who died early of heart attacks. One 37 and the other 44. Genetic lottery
Wow! I have two uncles who died early of heart attacks. One 37 and the other 44. Genetic lottery
I remember the same. Full time tuition (12-17 hrs) was like $735, and Wright Quad (the cheapest at the time) was just under $1100. Throw in books and supplies and yeah, it was $2000. This was my freshman year, 1973.
They don’t bother me at all. They disappoint me that they’re Trumpsters rather than Republicans, but that’s their choice. I only hope one day they Dump Trump the same as Trump would dump (on) them if they were public persons that dared to show anything less than slavish puppy-like loyalty to him.
What bill? President Biden is doing this by Presidential decree. Congress didn’t pass a bill. If they had, I’d still strongly oppose it, but it be obviously legitimate and constitutional. A Presidential decree that increased our debt by $100s of billions is far from obviously legitimate or constitutional.
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I’ve had to do things that were necessary and the right thing to do, but not enjoyable, many times in my personal and professional life. It makes no sense to feel bad about that.
You are going to get very tired fighting this kind of battle.
That same plumber is also paying for many benefits to old and sick and disabled and poor people he doesn't know as well as many benefits to all those rich corporations and banks that ivegotwinners complains about nonstop.
If a taxpayer always got back benefits equivalent to what he paid in taxes, it wouldn't be a tax anymore.
You wrote "let the court decide."
Sounds like you've already picked the court.
Weren't you happy with the TC and J Act? Lower rates and much higher standard deductions seem popular.
You’d be an idiot to believe Democrats didn’t have some PPP loans forgiven. However, the PPP loan program came into existence when the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President as a response to COVID-19. You can like PPP Loan program or not (and I don’t), but it was a spending program that was instituted via the normal constitutional process for spending programs. I also dislike it because it was as deceptively named. It was inevitably a grant program the way. It was structured rather than a loan program. Much like the Inflation Reduction Act is deceptively named. It’s not at all about inflation reduction.
This student loan forgiveness program, which I also don’t like, is the result of a Presidential decree by a President who unilaterally and likely unconstitutionally has decided it’s OK to increase our debt by 100s of billions of dollars.
I know you’re parroting new White House talking points, but think a little and you’ll understand that’s all they are.
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Making your posts too long was never an issue for you previously. 😉
Because with the PPP loans it was the government forcing everyone to shut down.
That was basically payments to keep people afloat in the midst of a government created situation.
Calling it Trump’s CARES Act is extremely disingenuous. It was a bipartisan bill passed almost unanimously in Congress because our Representatives and Senators just HAD to do something in response to COVID.PPP fraud under Trump's CARES Act was one of the largest collective swindles in US history.
Theft from the Covid relief plan known as PPP was even worse than we thought
The official in charge of Covid relief tells NBC News' Lester Holt that programs like PPP were structured in ways that were "an invitation" to fraudsters.www.nbcnews.com
Yes, I misused "bill" but I did say, "None of the above means our government functioned as it should be having congressional approval and it does not.". I have said a few times it needed to come through Congress.
No, dead is not disabled. But there were death benefits for those who qualified for SS. My wife got monthly payments from SS because her father died when she was 4. I don't believe they do that anymore.
I didn't know the VA also gave out educational death benefits to the offspring of veterans.
Did they smoke? My dad's brother - and one of the sisters - all smoked and they all had heart disease. The one sister who didn't smoke lived to be 98.
Smoking is bad news. I heard my dad hacking up a lung every morning and, after a brief flirtation with smoking, I had no desire.
Tobacco, that is......
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Off topic question, earlier 8 mentioned the Littoral ships as a money waste. I bet you have an opinion on them, do you like them or were they a waste? You certainly have better knowledge of their problems than I.
Off topic question, earlier 8 mentioned the Littoral ships as a money waste. I bet you have an opinion on them, do you like them or were they a waste? You certainly have better knowledge of their problems than I.
Only to a guy that couldn’t possibly bring himself to complain about the guy he voted for. You know, like you and other Trump cultists.
I posted about them previously. I don’t like them and they don’t meet the original concept’s requirements.
What should I complain about? That he claimed the election was stolen? Well, welcome to every Democrat's claim since 2000 when they've lost.
Jan 6? You mean when he authorized the National Guard to be called up? When he told his followers to go peacefully?
Complain about no inflation?
Complain about the wage gap between rich and poor shrinking?
Complain about low interest rates?
Complain about low gas prices?
Complain about the Abraham Accords?
Complain about him being the first President to finally address China as a rival?
Complain about keeping us out of wars?
Complain about developing the Covid vaccine in record time?
Oh right - he chased women when he was single and sent mean tweets.
Who doesn't get caught with a stripper every now and then?
Hey Biden did one of those. Except it was his daughter and his baby sitter. And I'm not sure he was single, but close right?
All of those other things remove the minorities from the Dem Crow chains. The will never want that! They loose their servants if they are actually successful for those folks.
Sure that's how it was sold.... but in practice wasn't anything of the sort. There should have never been anything approaching the forgiveness that was given. It is without a doubt the largest heist of govt money in US history. I can't tell you how many business owners I know that received six figure "loans" for businesses that ended up having record breaking sales years. And then had them all forgiven. I can't blame them.... they didn't break any law..... but it was an outrageous program with zero guardrails.
I forget the details, but I think I recall @stollcpa talking at the time about clearly unqualified applicants getting accepted without any questions asked.
What bills aren’t deceptively named? Let’s go back to the Patriot Act and probably beyond.
I don’t have strong feelings one way or the other about student loan forgiveness. I see pluses and minuses. To me though, this is a one time act versus some other bogus garbage that cost taxpayers far more money and also on an annual basis.
David Brooks had a good take on the Newshour tonight. Said if the program was limited to the 20K relief for the Pell Grant recipients he would have been all for it. Nearly all those people came from the bottom end of the economic spectrum and were disproportionately burdened. The rest didn't have a genuine need.
So please explain this pell grant confusion? A grant is free money, there is nothing to forgive. When THEY differentiate the pell grant folks, are they talking about giving Pell Grant recipients (Free money), that also took out loans to supplement there edj Bills (2-4 yrs beer and slut money)?
Please explain this "relieving" 20K of a Pell grant. I suppose that actaully means any pell GRANT person gets to also pay that back... Untill I here differently.
Pell Grants are free money given to the most economically disadvantaged. Most have to take out loans on top of those grants. The Biden program gives a 10K break to anyone with loans, and a 20K break to Pell Grant recipients who also had to take out loans. Brooks was fine with the Pell Grant recipients (by definition, the least advantaged of the bunch) getting a break, but not everyone else.
This helps me be 2x as pissed then. You owe me 20K! you rich MF'ers
PPP was a complete boondoggle. No oversight. I tried to argue with clients that I didn’t think qualified. One client called a high powered attorney in Indy. He told me what the attorney said and I didn’t believe him. He gave me the telephone number and I called. The attorney said they had many clients having record years and he told them all they’ve paid a lot of taxes and to get the PPP loans. At that point I gave up arguing with clients.
I posted on here the representations applicants made to get the loan. If applicants read them it should have given them some anxiety.
I know football players on full scholarship who got pell grants. Grants, not loans. They're on full scholarship.
Like all government programs, there are exceptions and loopholes. Same with PPP.
