RETIREDFAN1 Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 Didn't take me as long as it did him....Kirt STILL ain't got it yet .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWG91 Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 DC Republicrats fell out a favor with this deplorable way back in the 90's when Pat Buchanan was making his failed bids at the Presidency. And wouldn't you know it, he was called ALL THE SAME names back then as Trump is today, because their agenda's were virtually identical ( america first trade, secure borders, stop being world's policeman, among others. McCain was so horrible that I actually wrote Buchanan's name in on my ballot in 2008. We've been plagued with the likes of Pierre Delecto for far too long. #4MOREYEARS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 I wrote Ron Paul in...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWG91 Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 Nothing wrong with that vote. Sure, he's somewhat quirky, but I would've voted for him. Paul is spot-on with regard to the fed and also doesn't belong to the bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb iran crowd who wants to go to war with every other country on the planet it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RETIREDFAN1 Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 He is not beholden to the Rothschild's and their warmongering neocon puppets..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hagar Posted November 5, 2019 Share Posted November 5, 2019 Open borders - Dems For - Repubs Against. Why secure the borders? Nothing over there but peace loving folks. Oh! Wait! Drug Cartels! Better read this. RIP Folks. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7650129/Relatives-say-5-US-citizens-killed-northern-Mexico.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1jacket Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 President Trump will have a rally in Bossier City on November 14th @ CenturyLink Center. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarthDawg77 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 50 minutes ago, 1jacket said: President Trump will have a rally in Bossier City on November 14th @ CenturyLink Center. I want to go.... I might be there! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1jacket Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 18 minutes ago, CarthDawg77 said: I want to go.... I might be there! Better get there early, I imagine that place will be packed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarthDawg77 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 5 minutes ago, 1jacket said: Better get there early, I imagine that place will be packed. I agree! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirtFalcon Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Tickets? How do you get in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarthDawg77 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 9 minutes ago, KirtFalcon said: Tickets? How do you get in? If you find out, let me know...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Bet you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an angry fat, balding white guy peeing himself in delight and wearing his pants too high at that Mensa gathering! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarthDawg77 Posted November 7, 2019 Author Share Posted November 7, 2019 11 hours ago, BarryLaverty said: Bet you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an angry fat, balding white guy peeing himself in delight and wearing his pants too high at that Mensa gathering! Whereas, you dimocraps walk around with you pants off your ###, prison ##### style..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWG91 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Sounds like ol Berri is projecting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 But, my vote goes for Cruella De Ville, uh, Betsy DeVos, as the worst education secretary EVER. Not only does she not really like or understand public education and seeks to undermine or attack it, but she has committed malfeasance with students loans. She needs to go! Look at her background and see why she has been able to stay for so long. https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/betsy-devos-education-secretary-171431586.html 'Has not lifted a finger': Education Secretary Betsy DeVos blasted for increasingly rocky tenure Aarthi Swaminathan 20 hours ago Reactions Reblog on Tumblr Share Tweet Email UP NEXT 3:20 Now Playing 4:27 5:24 3:43 4:14 4:12 1:08 0:08 4:27 Papa John’s shares soar, strong Q3 sales report Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has had a rough year — even relative to other remaining members of the Trump administration. DeVos is facing troubles ranging from being fined $100,000 for contempt of court to dealing with lawsuits stemming from an ineffective Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF). Massachusetts Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren called DeVos “the worst Secretary of Education” ever. A U.S. Magistrate in San Francisco slammed DeVos over “gross negligence” over the collection of debt payments from students of a defunct for-profit college. And a top student loan official chosen by DeVos recently quit over how “broken” the student loan system has become. According to experts, the tenure of Secretary DeVos has a poor record so far — particularly when it comes to student loans. US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos speaks during the Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, July 15, 2019. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) “We've now had years of failed efforts to try and block accountability over student loan companies who have ripped off borrowers at every turn,” former Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Ombudsman and current Executive Director of D.C.-based nonprofit Student Borrower Protection Center Seth Frotman, who resigned from the CFPB in August 2018, told Yahoo Finance. “It's time to quit the political games and allow law enforcement officials at the federal level and the state level to demand justice for student loan borrowers. And the Department of Education, which clearly has no desire to do so, should get out of the way.” D.C.-based consumer advocacy group Allied Progress Spokesman Jeremy Funk told Yahoo Finance that DeVos “has not lifted a finger to fix the $1.6 trillion student debt crisis. [She has] only helped her friends in the student loan servicer and for-profit college industries make it worse for their own benefit.” Funk added: “She’s expedited this harmful agenda by hiring a slew of industry lobbyists to run her Department … But don’t expect DeVos to change her behavior because President Trump either doesn’t care or is pleased she is doing the bidding of industries that have pumped millions of dollars into Republican campaigns like his.” (Graphic: David Foster) The failed PSLF program One of the major issues that emerged this year was the ineffectiveness of the PSLF program. Congress designed the program to reduce the student debt burden for thousands of borrowers who performed a decade of service in government or nonprofit jobs. But the PSLF program has had a dismal track record with acceptance rates at a mere 1%. When Congress tried to fix it by funding a temporary expansion of the PSLF program, that too had a 1% approval rate, according to the Government Accountability Office. Frustrated by the lack of progress, one group has decided to sue the DOE. DOE Press Secretary Angela Morabito told Yahoo Finance that agency was working hard to improve the program, but the design of the program itself was flawed: “When PSLF was written more than a decade ago, the Department made Congress aware that only a tiny fraction of borrowers would qualify. It is important to note that the high denial rates in PSLF are by Congressional design, not by accident or failed implementation by the Department.” Making life easier for for-profit schools The other big issue has involved accreditation — a process where colleges, universities, and higher learning institutions get evaluated. In October, DeVos loosened accreditation standards. Experts said this opened up the possibility for subpar colleges — particularly for-profits — to secure federal funding for their students. A security guard inside Everest College keeps away a member of the media and a former student Gary Montano after the embattled for-profit Santa Ana school was shut down along with 28 others. (Photo: Mindy Schauer/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images) “Among other measures, this proposal would further open the spigot of taxpayer money going to failed and closing schools, conceal information from the public about the accreditation oversight process, and diminish the value of accreditor standards,” Antoinette Flores, associate director for postsecondary education at D.C.-based think tank Center for American Progress, said in a statement. “The simple question to ask is: Whose interest is Education Secretary Betsy DeVos truly serving?” In an Oct 31 statement, DeVos maintained that this move was necessary: “[W]e ended the stranglehold that a system designed when people traveled by horse and buggy continued to have on institutions. …. it is time to right size bureaucracy and allow institutions to redirect their resources to students and teaching.” Revoking Obama-era rules protecting defrauded borrowers This year also marked the instance when a federal judge fined DeVos $100,000. After the largest for-profit college, Corinthian, had closed in 2015, the federal government had declared that former students were eligible for loan forgiveness. In 2017, a group of former students said that the DOE stopped discharging those loans and filed a lawsuit. Yet the agency didn’t stop collecting the loans. More than 3,000 made payments that they didn’t have to make, and 1,800 had their taxes seized or wages garnished. A student at the Boston Public Library on Sep. 14, 2017. She just started classes for a bachelor's degree. She is a victim of fraudulent practices by Everest Institute, where she took out large loans for a "worthless degree." (Photo: Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim in San Francisco chastised DeVos during a hearing in early October, saying: "I am not sending anyone to jail yet, but it’s good to know that I have that ability.” Kim later doled out the $100,000 fine after finding that she had been in contempt of court. (But the DOE has said it has submitted a proposed motion for reconsideration for the fine.) Meanwhile, the DeVos administration has rolled back Obama-era rules that allowed borrowers who were defrauded by their college to seek loan cancellation, called the “borrower defense.” Currently over 210,000 borrower defense claims are pending. She also rolled back another Obama-era rule called gainful employment. Under the 2014 rule, schools would not receive federal funding if their students consistently left with high student debt. Under the regulation, a graduate’s estimated annual loan payment should not exceed 20% of their discretionary income, or 8% of their total earnings. In June, DeVos rescinded the gainful employment rule — because it “unfairly targeted for-profit colleges” — as of July 1, 2020. Yet in October, the DOE had given a whopping $10.7 million in loans and grants to students at for-profit schools, even though the schools weren’t yet accredited hence ineligible to receive the aid. “How do we know Secretary DeVos is a lost cause? Not even a court order was enough to convince her to work on behalf of all student borrowers,” said Funk. “She’d apparently rather be held in contempt of court than doing something as fundamental to the Department’s mission as forgiving debt for defrauded students.” U.S. President Donald Trump and DeVos on March 2017. (Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) Consolidating power over student loans Finally, some experts argue that DeVos has also consolidated oversight over student loans, demanding that only the federal government can hold servicers accountable over federal student loans. Her office disagrees with that assessment. “Secretary DeVos has lamented the government takeover of the student loan industry, and we are working within our authority and responsibilities set forth by Congress to oversee the Federal Student Aid portfolio,” DOE’s Morabito told Yahoo Finance. The states seem to agree with the criticism: Citing federal inaction, many states are taking matters into their own hands — such as by enacting a student loan bill of rights. DeVos had previously asked states to back off, arguing that companies hired by the DOE should only be under federal oversight. This year, the DOE went one step further, with the case of the CFPB. In April, CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger said that she had tried to fix the system by attempting to monitor the servicers to make sure they’re complying with the law. The DOE had declined to produce the information. “t’s up to Congress to ensure DeVos’ Department is accountable to student borrowers, not industries that exploit them,” Funk stated. “The more Members of Congress hear that message from their constituents, the more likely we will see legislation that forces DeVos do her job protecting student borrowers.” — Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 9 hours ago, DAWG91 said: Sounds like ol Berri is projecting... Sounds like some deep, deep denial on the part of some of you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWG91 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 Funny. So this education secretary is the worst ever because the worst "indian" ever said so? I will agree that a lot of Trump's cabinet appointments have been real floaters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWG91 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 2 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said: Sounds like some deep, deep denial on the part of some of you. You must be deaf then... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 She's the worst ever, because she doesn't care about public education and seeks ways to undermine and attack it and to enrich her and those like her is her goal. PERIOD. And, keep whistling past that graveyard, Goozle. Trump being around another year, much less any more than that, is not an assured thing, no matter what the newest version of 8chan may say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackBeard Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 24 minutes ago, BarryLaverty said: Sounds like some deep, deep denial on the part of some of you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAWG91 Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 @BarryLavertyIf I concede she's the worst ever and should be fired immediately will you also concede that the us dept of education should've never been created in the first place and should be shut down forthwith, do we have a deal? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DannyZuco Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 The education department is nothing more than a department set up to give political payback to people. I believe we can thank Jimmy "peanut" Carter for this department. So the 2nd worst President, only behind Obama, gave us a department that makes rules, but no way to pay for them. And crazy people, including the younger Bush have used it to destroy the education system in this country. But then again, a dumber electorate is easier to convince, easier to divide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 I think that the purpose, the mission statement of that department is supposed to be about what other Cabinet posts are, which is to protect and advocate and regulate with needed standards, in this case, our national education. Whether that has happened is definitely up for debate, but to do away with it altogether may please those most who don't see the need for any public service, with an added bonus that an uneducated populace is most easily swayed. And, I would also say that I think states on their own are going to do as good or bad a job, as they can get away with, unless there is a national standard and accountability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarryLaverty Posted November 7, 2019 Share Posted November 7, 2019 25 minutes ago, BlackBeard said: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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