Posted on 08/10/2018 7:33:25 PM PDT by mdittmar
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on the Department of Education’s proposal to abandon an Obama Administration-era “gainful employment” rule—which would hold predatory career training programs accountable when their students are unable to find jobs that allow them pay back their loans. By its own analysis, the Department’s proposal will cost taxpayers $5.3 billion over ten years.
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Patty Murray is the epitome of stupid.
DeVos should say either get rid of the rule or apply it across the board to all higher education. Then hear the libs squeal.
I propose a different Gainful Employment rule.
Make education loans dischargeable through bankruptcy court and remove the government backing of them.
And no, Starbucks doesn't count as "employment."
Neither does working at a University, except as a tenure-track professor.
I oppose any changes in national education policy. In fact I oppose the dept of education as unconstitutional and inefficient. 27% administrative cost to set rules and redistribute tax money taken from citizens and states. Let’s close it down.
Gainful employment opportunities are inversely proportional to the number of illegal aliens competing for the jobs. QED. Stuff it, Patty Moron.
“Make education loans dischargeable through bankruptcy court and remove the government backing of them.”
I still think it is desirable to educate men who have intelligence but no money.
predatory career training programs
Looks like bad choices and lazy no-nothing classes don’t pay off.
Thats fine, just teach them something remunerative and you will get the money back.
Or help them save for it.
I used military savings programs instead of loans.
Many years ago, Ann Coulter rightly called Patty Murray “the stupidest woman in Congress”.
For decades, the strongest staffs belonged to Barbara Boxer, Barbara Mikulski, Patty Murray and Ted Kennedy. The three ladies were not the sharpest knives in the drawer, and Kennedy was drunk most of the time.
One doesn’t want to give a free pass to education rackets either.
Yet some offerings are so abysmally misleading that to let them qualify seems a travesty in itself.
If we make education loans dischargeable through bankruptcy and remove government backing, who will extend education loans?
“Or help them save for it. I used military savings programs instead of loans.”
That is very commendable, but is it a solution for everyone?
Everyone needs to find employment they are capable of, but yes. This used to be the norm.
And makind education debt dischargable should force prices back down, and it makes qualifying for bankruptcy more difficult.
So, if I buy a hammer and don’t build a house it’s Home Depot’s fault?
I graduated High school and looked around , I saw that everyone needed a house so I walked up to a new foundation with a huge pile of wood next to it in East Bridgewater Massachusetts and located the foreman . I asked if I could get some work and he told me to get an estwing hammer and a tool belt and show up at 7am the next day (I was 17 years old.) I got PAID to learn....a paid apprenticeship you might say . My abilities now include roofing/siding/plumbing/electrical/mechanical/door and window installation/insulating/trim and finish/cabinetry/ceramic and marble installation and I repair my own vehicles . I also did bookkeeping for my Mom’s stenography firm for a half a year . I am now 56 years old and have had 6-7 houses / traveled this great Republic end to end 2 or 3 times / boated our internal rivers (great lakes to Sarasota about a 7 week journey) and am in demand for my skills no matter where I am .....and understand I will dig ditches if need be . I find it absurd to get a loan for learning unless it is law or mathematics or engineering as true application in the real world is most times way different than what is taught in the classroom . Those who can DO , those who can’t teach ! (or become home inspectors..hahahahaha.)
Great story!
Agree. Apply it to all schools.
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