Absolutely. I think it goes back to an article I read...
https://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2012/04/545-people-responsible-americas-woes
obama and the Left in general, created this problem, so only they are the ones that can solve it.
Unfortunately, the problem goes deeper, IMHO, and you have to give to the Left, they are some Long Term Thinkers. They start this out in kindergarten & elementary school. Can’t speak for the rest of the country, but where I live, when school starts that parents are busy buying school supplies. Only, they can’t buy their son or daughter what they want. No Superman binder for their son. No WonderWoman spiral notebook for their daughter. The parents walk into Walmart, go to the kiosk, pick the shopping list for ??? Elementary School, 3rd Grade and buy what’s on the list. Everyone gets the same things and when their kids get to school, they give it all to the Central Authority figure in the room, the Teacher. When they need something they go to that Authority figure. All things are solved by the Authority figure. Spend 16+ years with that indoctrination, without normal parents teaching you otherwise and challenging that, those kids are screwed.
What the Obama administration did do was great for the federal government, not the students. Obama federalized the system to where the government now profits immensely from both interest on loans it makes directly to students, and defaults. To say that the federal government now sits atop the most predatory lending system in our nation’s history is not an understatement.
Obama was one of only two members on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) committee not to have taken money from the Sallie Mae PAC. In this position he was privy to the HELP Committee and other reports detailing a broad swath of illegal and deceptive activities by the lenders, the universities, and even the Department of Education. This also included the ways of recovery of defaulted loans.
The various repayment programs that promise forgiveness are cruel jokes, administered in bad faith by a Department of Education that has zero desire or intentions of forgiving any loans. It is estimate that fewer than 15% of those signing up for these programs will actually make it through. The rest will be expelled owing far more than when they entered.
So if Republicans in Congress are serious about reining in the powers of the federal government, they would not only join in those efforts to correct this- but lead on this critically important task. Obama didn’t invent this problem. It’s been going on for 60 or 70 years. He just learned and implemented a way of enslaving the people involved to the feds to create more votes to keep them in office. Just another lib lie. One the republicans should call them on, in public. But don’t hold your breath with their history.
But that’s the real problem, isn’t it? One side wishes to take advantage of the citizens to keep in power, and the other side doesn’t have the cajones to stop it while they say they are trying to protect citizens from the predator side of the aisle. They’re not draining the swamp. They are treating it like a wetland.
rwood