That's a very good thing. This looks like a red tidal wave in November.
As I said in an earlier post, Kamala has met my expectations for her - I expected her to be a total disaster, and she is.
Joe Biden Accomplishment Thread
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Totally agree, 6721. And the more the party moves hard left, the more likely that the remaining moderates will find themselves viewed as outsiders - and they will find that the GOP platform is closer to their views.
Demx? Now that's hilarious.
saw this one today.... thought Deez especially would like this one.
There are. it's just that the author fell asleep after typing out reason #173.
I didn't know where to put this so it goes here:
‘It was like a miracle’: This public service loan borrower had over $100,000 in student debt forgiven and $15,000 refunded
Some nuggets from this oppressed Liberal (if she wasn't before):
"After a weekend in Mexico, Nancy Wadsworth opened her bank account app to assess her finances after the trip."
"Wadsworth is a professor at the University of Denver—where she's worked since 2004—and she qualifies for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program."
"She and her wife are planning to take a week-long trip to Europe in a few months with some of the $15,000 refund.:
Why doesn't she have to forfeit her degree? Why was she traveling in Mexico? Why is she going to Europe? Is this debt-forgiveness meaning it should be taxable income?
This makes me want to vomit. My family has sacrificed and paid for our children's education.
‘It was like a miracle’: This public service loan borrower had over $100,000 in student debt forgiven and $15,000 refunded
Some nuggets from this oppressed Liberal (if she wasn't before):
"After a weekend in Mexico, Nancy Wadsworth opened her bank account app to assess her finances after the trip."
"Wadsworth is a professor at the University of Denver—where she's worked since 2004—and she qualifies for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program."
"She and her wife are planning to take a week-long trip to Europe in a few months with some of the $15,000 refund.:
Why doesn't she have to forfeit her degree? Why was she traveling in Mexico? Why is she going to Europe? Is this debt-forgiveness meaning it should be taxable income?
This makes me want to vomit. My family has sacrificed and paid for our children's education.
With you on this by. My daughter works for metro as a public defender and because her loans are parental guaranteed they are not available for the “public service” forgiveness plans. Been coming out of her salary faithfully for 13 years or so with still a loooong way to go.
Did they deliberately misspell "sense"?
Yep. It's a thing. The wife got hers forgiven under the PSLF a few months ago. It was nowhere near that much money (about $16K), and we were also refunded about $2,200. The reason for the refund is that they refund anything you paid after you became eligible for forgiveness. I think they do that because the application process is a pain in the *** and can take a long time. Hers took almost a year and several phone calls to the program to correct errors they made in evaluating her application (meaning the idiots who do this don't actually read the application).
Obviously, I'm not going to turn down loan forgiveness if it's available. That would be a dumb family decision, but it's BS. The rationale behind it is that some important government jobs (like teachers and social workers) require what can often be an expensive higher education but don't pay a lot of money. That's an understandable goal. We don't want people to avoid those professions. However, the program is MUCH broader than that. It basically applies to any government employee. Well, plenty of government employees (including Mrs. Deez and there are plenty of layers above her that make even more) make a hell of a lot more money than your average teacher or social worker. Think college professors, federal prosecutors, high-level military officers, doctors, etc. Hell, Anthony Fauci makes over $400K per year, and he'd be eligible.
And nope. PSLF isn't taxable.
Understandable goal? Understood by whom? The government workers getting the handouts? I don't understand it. The majority or teachers and social workers are not worth a damn. The teaches unions are horrible. Social workers are typically mal- educated. This is just another faulty social program. Pay for your own loans. It's your baby, you rock it.
Ok, at least you're not talking about Texas teachers since they can't be union...
I have no problem with PSLF not being taxable...the program was known at the time one took the loans. It isn't the same as Slow Joe just waving a wand to make it go away. PSLF has terms that HAVE to be satisfied.
Those that see loans reduced or eliminated through the wave of a wand, however, deserve to pay tax on the imputed income.
It's more than that. They can't collectively bargain. There is no collective bargaining agreement between the school districts and teacher unions on behalf of the teachers. In fact, that's probably the biggest difference.
Anyone, including Ukranian officials, who think "Biden" is actually doing ANYTHING, is beyond gullible. But, I can't say what they are are because that would be a blanket name calling, and that isn't allowed.
Yep. TCTA and the other one (can't recall their acronym) are pretty much there to provide legal representation in case an individual teacher gets sued etc., and they put out a nice brochure every year. Other than that they don't do much.
And the quote doesn't even show how badly he mangled such an easy sentence. Yes, we all know Trump was excoriated for every single thing he said. It didn't matter what he said.
TCTA (Texas Classroom Teachers Association) is the least ideological group. TFT (Texas Federation of Teachers - affiliated with the AFL-CIO) and TSTA (Texas State Teachers Association - affiliated with the National Education Association) are nuttier. And you left off the other big things they do - lobby the legislature to screw students and taxpayers and donate money to liberal politicians.
Biden Denies Massive Spending Fueled Record Inflation: ‘The Idea Is Bizarre’
This is our President... but Trump you know... the mean tweets...
This is our President... but Trump you know... the mean tweets...
This. That's not a union in the sense anyone thinks of "union." In fact, the names are Texas Classroom Teachers Association and American Federation of Teachers because they are not unions...
Not to nitpick, but the American Federation of Teachers is actually a union with chapters all over the United States. It's run by execrable Randi Weingarten, and it's an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. The Texas Federation of Teachers is part of that group, but it isn't allowed to collectively bargain. Accordingly the TFT isn't a true union, but the AFT definitely is. If Texas state law changed to allow collective bargaining (no chance in hell), TFT (and TSTA) wouldn't have to change itself much beyond hiring labor negotiators.
TCTA and ATPE (Association of Texas Professional Educators) are different. They're not associated with any labor unions. In fact ATPE formed by splitting off from TSTA when it chose to associate with the NEA. They still advocate for better pay, etc., but they aren't fans of unions or striking. If Texas law changed, my guess is that they would represent the teachers who chose to remain non-union.
Boy has that statement been refuted over and over the past years.
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