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Comment on House Approves Kline’s 4.5% Parent Tax Increase by MNCentral

MNCentral — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:14:15 +0000

Hi George,
The bad idea is that Chairman Kline advocates charging a 4.5% fee for PLUS loans as well as a 2.5% fee for Stafford loans.
In my area, there has been a shortage of qualified workers … why wouldn’t we want to loan monies for people to become qualified for those jobs ? These new workers will become consumers and taxpayers growing our economy.
Isn’t it funny that when the financial crisis hit, the biggest complaint that we heard from business owners was the lack bank lending … if we get the government out of supporting student loans, will the banks set-up (without the backing of the Federal Government if they need a bailout?)
Chairman Kline should defend why he is asking for such an “onerous” fee.

Regards,
Mac Hall

Comment on House Approves Kline’s 4.5% Parent Tax Increase by Dee Gee

Dee Gee — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:59:04 +0000

The markets are unreliable and do a shitty job. Let’s do better about getting our citizenry educated and get the MARKETS the hell out of education instead.

Comment on House Approves Kline’s 4.5% Parent Tax Increase by George Macaulay

George Macaulay — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:58:13 +0000

Hey, we sort of agree on something here. I, too, think this is a bad idea, and would not support it. The best solution is to blow up the entire financial aid process. Get the government out of the loan business and let the markets take care of it.

Comment on Accountability and Accounting by MNCentral

MNCentral — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:28:06 +0000

Let us remember that two CIA contractors and former Navy SEALs, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, were keeping watch and were killed.
Was this a CIA responsibliity or State Department ?
How much (or less) security did they want to keep this mission site as a secret outpost ?

Also, we still do not know why the attack happened … was this a result of attackers had known for weeks about the facility and had staked out a position to fire the mortar rounds ? Or, did the militants that fired the mortars learned of the CIA annex location earlier that evening ?

That all aside, the drumbeat that some in the GOP is pounding actually is exposing the CIA … and that’s where we need to focus the Accountablity.

Comment on House Approves Kline’s 4.5% Parent Tax Increase by hollycairns

hollycairns — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:17:25 +0000

House Approves Kline’s 4.5% Parent Tax Increase http://t.co/TS6K4Vp34y

Comment on The Case Against Majority Leader Tom Bakk by MNCentral

MNCentral — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:16:34 +0000

Insightful post.

IMO, voters vote for their district represenative … and I suspect that without the lawn signs before Election Day, many could not name thier representatives.
Bakk is not Pelosi … a name that the GOP can use as a poster child (or as Marc Sanford did in debating a Pelosi cut-out) … but the question should be, does the DFL Senators still support their leader ?

In the US Senate, there is justifable reasons to reject Harry Reid, but that never happens.