Thread: The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012

I just got this email and wanted to share the content!

As you're probably already aware, last Thursday, June 28th, I presented Rep. Hansen Clarke with over One MILLION signatures in support of his legislation, H.R. 4170, The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012.

The petition is so successful that more than 157,000 people, on top of the original One Million, have now signed on to show their support. But this is only the beginning.

Our voices are being heard, but we have to continue to demand that Congress take action. With Congress taking repeated vacations while the rest of the American people continue to struggle, not to mention the unprecedented obstructionism and inaction we've seen in Washington lately, as all eyes are focused on the upcoming elections; we have to stand strong and continue to be the "squeaky wheel that gets the grease."

Now that the petition has been delivered, it's time we demand that the House Committee on Education & The Workforce take action on H.R. 4170.

Therefore, please click here to send your message to Chairman John Kline, demanding that he hold hearings on H.R. 4170 immediately. Over a million voices cannot be ignored, especially if those voices continue to make noise and refuse to be ignored.

Speak your heart and your mind. . .just be sure to speak up and demand that your voice be heard! Failure to remain engaged now would be the same as just giving up and resigning yourself to the notion that nothing can ever change. I outright reject that premise, and I hope you do the same!

As always, thank you for your continued support! The only way we were able to get this far is by sticking together and keeping the pressure on our leaders in Washington. Now, let's keep up that momentum by writing to the Chairman of the House Committee on Education and The Workforce and demanding that he hold hearings on H.R. 4170, The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012!

Sincerely,

Robert Applebaum, Founder of ForgiveStudentLoanDebt.com
Twitter: @bobbyapples
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/forgivestudentloandebt/

This is a good thing for the po folk.

But fact is if a person does not have the money to pay for an education, they need to work and earn money for it. Then they will not be Sanduskied for the rest of their life with huge debt. Because you know most times they will never get a job that they want.

If people don't have scholarship offers, than they do not belong in a university IMO. They need to grow up, get some character, buddy up with elite people, and earn a wage so they will have the character needed to compete with the spoiled kids who got a free ride. Because in the end, the ones with the skills will succeed over the ones who take out loans and beg ma and pa for free school.

Hell, in the USA, the trades/vocations/industry, makes more money than most of the college jobs, and with public school union like benifits. Cheaper school, faster, and a lot of jobs available for those who are skilled and 10%ers.

PS, you need to be a 10%er to have any success in life. If you are not, you will struggle through life as a failure and will eventually seek and maintain a complacent job that has no challange.

Pay your bills, bum. That is, unless you are prepared to give cash equivalents to EVERYONE who doesn't intend on defaulting on their student loans. Same with you housing bums, cash equivalents to everyone who has been responsible or burn up and go away.

Sure.. why not.. pay for it with Israel welfare money.. and Oil subsidies money. But so long as we are paying for people that passed thier classes.. not flunkies.. they can go (*)(*)(*)(*) off.

Originally Posted by Clint Torres

This is a good thing for the po folk.

But fact is if a person does not have the money to pay for an education, they need to work and earn money for it. Then they will not be Sanduskied for the rest of their life with huge debt. Because you know most times they will never get a job that they want.

If people don't have scholarship offers, than they do not belong in a university IMO. They need to grow up, get some character, buddy up with elite people, and earn a wage so they will have the character needed to compete with the spoiled kids who got a free ride. Because in the end, the ones with the skills will succeed over the ones who take out loans and beg ma and pa for free school.

Hell, in the USA, the trades/vocations/industry, makes more money than most of the college jobs, and with public school union like benifits. Cheaper school, faster, and a lot of jobs available for those who are skilled and 10%ers.

PS, you need to be a 10%er to have any success in life. If you are not, you will struggle through life as a failure and will eventually seek and maintain a complacent job that has no challange.

Things don't always go the way you plan, neither do different people's circumstances always fit a given model. Plus, the fact remains that college prices surge while wages stagnate.

I believe we should invest in our children, they are our future

Originally Posted by Durandal

Things don't always go the way you plan, neither do different people's circumstances always fit a given model. Plus, the fact remains that college prices surge while wages stagnate.

Sure life is not easy and their are obsticals. And they need to be dealt with.
To be successfull, you gotta make your system work, and acheive your goals, If not you will continue to be a failure sitting around begging for change that will not come to you. You need to go out and get it.

Things in life evolve and change, you need to do the same to succeed.

Originally Posted by FreshAir

I believe we should invest in our children, they are our future

Sounds like a simplton answer. Overgeneralized and means nothing, just like support the troops.

Action is what counts. Spoiling a kid and coddling them will only make them a mama's boy, gay or both. They will not develop the skill needed in life to be successfull and to take on challanges independntly. They may even become co-dependant like an addict. Always wating for a hand out and thinks money fall from the sky, just like most USA public school educators who never left the safety and security of a public school environment.

I truly believe every kid should pay his own way for college regardless of the cost. If they can't get a scholorship, they do not belong in college. Or if they want it bad enough they need to work for it. If they are truly clever and intelligent they will find a way to pay for it. That in itself shows intelligence needed for college. If they are to stupid to develop a plan and acheive their goals step by step, they do not belong in college. Wallmart has openings; Make like the world will not chang and you can go through life with a teenager job. living in your teenage era forever. Yea, I'm talking to any stoner out there.

Why dumb down higher education like USA pubic schools just to make money off those foolish kids. The USA should make college more challanging for the masses, so only the smart ones get in.

Originally Posted by Clint Torres

This is a good thing for the po folk.

But fact is if a person does not have the money to pay for an education, they need to work and earn money for it. Then they will not be Sanduskied for the rest of their life with huge debt. Because you know most times they will never get a job that they want.

If people don't have scholarship offers, than they do not belong in a university IMO. They need to grow up, get some character, buddy up with elite people, and earn a wage so they will have the character needed to compete with the spoiled kids who got a free ride. Because in the end, the ones with the skills will succeed over the ones who take out loans and beg ma and pa for free school.

Hell, in the USA, the trades/vocations/industry, makes more money than most of the college jobs, and with public school union like benifits. Cheaper school, faster, and a lot of jobs available for those who are skilled and 10%ers.

PS, you need to be a 10%er to have any success in life. If you are not, you will struggle through life as a failure and will eventually seek and maintain a complacent job that has no challange.

Other than the doctors and lawyers I know, most of the people I know with college degrees make less than I do with the exception of a few that are doing jobs that have nothing to do with their degree, like Air Traffic Control, which could be considered a skill once trained.

I have skills which have carried me pretty far.

That is the case only for a very small percent of the popultaion. If people want to get to college, they need to work at it, and if they can't then they do not have what it takes to make it. Just that simple. I had to make a lot of sacrifices to get into college, way more than the common fool who says "Can't". Because failure is not an option.

If people don't have the will pwoer and character to go out and get what they want, they are weak and failures anyway. Asking for hand outs, taking out loans, or leaching off the family is a sure sign of weakness.