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2023-07-03 Economy

Arne Duncan: Biden's Unilateral Loan Transfer Justified Because the Country Is ‘Struggling' ‘Badly'

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top

#1 Biden Moves to Slash Medicare Payments for Home Health Agencies

Posted by Skidmark 2023-07-02 07:26|| 2023-07-02 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 COVID bio-weapons and Big Pharma meds didn't get us all. Nothing is too good for the elderly.

Crimping PEX fittings for the wife's new garden hydrant. Come get this old bastard, I'll snug up your nuts with this handy Apollo crimper. You look like 1/2 inchers.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-02 07:43|| 2023-07-02 07:43|| Front Page Top

#3 How does the country struggle in the midst of the "bestest economy of all time" as the media likes to sell it?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-02 07:43|| 2023-07-02 07:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Bidenomics Fever™. Catch it!

Posted by Frank G 2023-07-02 07:57|| 2023-07-02 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ It's 'transitory' Frank. Once your money is gone, it moves to it's next victim.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-02 08:00|| 2023-07-02 08:00|| Front Page Top

#6 For 81 million votes, its the best economy you can get.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-07-03 09:02|| 2023-07-03 09:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Arne Starkey Duncan (born November 6, 1964) served as United States Secretary of Education from 2009 to 2015 and as Chief Executive Officer of Chicago Public Schools from 2001 to 2008. Duncan is the founder of Create Real Economic Destiny (CRED), a non-profit aimed at reducing gun violence. Duncan was a key figure in the Obama administration's development of Common Core, a set of nationwide educational standards.

How many disadvantaged kids' loans have you paid off, Arne? C'mon, man, show us they way!

Posted by Bobby 2023-07-03 14:32|| 2023-07-03 14:32|| Front Page Top

#8 I think what bugs me most about all this is that Biden's plan wasn't going to solve anything. Lots of $$$ would change hands, but indebted borrowers would still owe huge amounts. In fact, interest would quickly put them right back where they were. Oh yeah, and new loans are still issued every day.

Posted by Angstrom 2023-07-03 17:59|| 2023-07-03 17:59|| Front Page Top

#9 It was a payoff to supporters, nothing else.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-07-03 18:14|| 2023-07-03 18:14|| Front Page Top

#10 An incentive to get the college crowd to the polls.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-07-03 19:34|| 2023-07-03 19:34|| Front Page Top

#11 It was a payoff to supporters, nothing else.

I get that it was a payoff. But it was a payoff carefully designed to preserve the problem rather than fix it -- even just a little bit or for a small group of people.

Posted by Angstrom 2023-07-03 21:03|| 2023-07-03 21:03|| Front Page Top

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