rssRep. John Kline calls Obama student loan plan a ‘mistake’
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Rep. John Kline, who chairs the House Education and Workforce Committee, slammed President Obama’s plan for student loan relief Monday as a “mistake,” saying it will do nothing to help workers looking for jobs.
Obama’s plan would let current students cap their monthly repayment at 10 percent of discretionary income and any unpaid amount would be forgiven after 20 years. It also allows some borrowers to consolidate their loans at a lower interest rate. The president issued the new student loan plan through an executive order that beefs up a current law regarding student loans.
“This administration has been bypassing Congress on issue after issue after issue — they’ve sort of famously issued hundreds of rule changes and executive orders to bypass Congress, so I think that’s a mistake,” Rep. John Kline said on Fox and Friends. Kline, who chairs the education committee in the House has been sharply critical of most of Obama’s education proposals since gaining the post in 2010.
Kline added that the government should stop subsidizing student loans altogether.
“We simply can’t keep providing money from the federal government in the form of subsidized or actual loans and Pell Grants when we don’t have the money,” Kline said.
Kline had previously put out a press release saying Obama’s plan puts “politics before policy.”
“Despite the administration’s rhetoric, this plan will not create a single job, strengthen our economy, or promote fiscal responsibility,” Kline said. “What this plan will do instead is encourage more borrowing across the board. That means more debt for students, more debt for taxpayers, and more red ink on the government’s books.”
The Minnesota Independent reported this summer on close ties between Kline and for-profit colleges. Kline fought regulation of that industry, which industry critics say siphons off public tax money through deceptive practices.
Private and for-profit educational institutions are the top donors to Kline’s campaign and political action committee. Kline’s campaign has also benefited from private financial corporations that provide student loans.
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Comment posted August 12, 2011 @ 10:24 pm
They
should be a nationally registered lobby.
Comment posted August 12, 2011 @ 11:40 pm
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Comment posted August 13, 2011 @ 2:57 am
why does this not surprise me.a whole cadre’ of creeps has infiltrated this “govment” since election night 1980.wake up john q public,your country,was slowly,and aided by that “liberal” press, taken over by assholes that do not give a crap about you.while you were watching crap on tv like”biggest loser”,or “starsearch”,or annoying “updates” on balloon boy,or “paris hilton” breaking news.you love that baloney,don’t you,???c’mon admit it,i can handle it…..now you want to bitch?…..ah,not for nothing,what was it about fratboy,elected two times,that made sense to you??????………i see,you were not watching the money,i get it…….
Comment posted August 13, 2011 @ 3:00 am
So, business heads and state politicians meeting to plan laws favorable to business is NOT lobbying?
Isn’t fascism the combination of business and govt?
And exactly HOW much more help does comcast need to be “successful”? I remember a time when they “fixed” the phone company because it was a “MONOPOLY across the nation”, apparently somehow different than Comcast is, a monopoly across the nation, AND meddling with some govt officials planning even better climate to crush competition and regulation.
Comment posted August 13, 2011 @ 6:27 am
I wonder how many other states have laws being broken by ALEC?
This could get really messy for them. I saw the Chamber of Commerce is trying to change the law so they can get away with bribery. I guess they are worried.
Comment posted August 13, 2011 @ 8:40 am
Nothing will happen to ALEC, they have been writing laws for
a long time and have the financial support of the likes of Koch and company.
And yes Mussolini famously said that Fascism is the perfect marriage of
business and government. And we have been living in a Corporate Capitalist
Fascism for some time now. And it was not the “liberal” media it was the “corporate”
media and News Corp who have distracted the population. But so what…the TEA
Baggers are going to start a war with Iran and cut taxes to the rich even more.
It’s all about thinning out the “slough”: those people who cannot care for themselves
the reason is irrelevant. Old, Sick, frail it does not matter if you are not
making someone in the aristocracy money you are slough and need to die.
Comment posted August 13, 2011 @ 3:20 pm
As ALEC will probably continue, but it will now continue with a great big spotlight on it, much like Koch Bros. have been illuminated. Bagger’s will ignore it because they are afraid of reality. Over on the ALEC FB page, a writer/blogger via Big ____, the Breitty fanatics say that the spotlight is nothing but a smear campaign.
Hmm, me thinks they doth complain a little to much. The (ALEC proponent argument is that they have been around so long, blah blah blah. But being in operation and citizens being aware of them are 2 distinctly different issues. They want to continue in their hidey hole and the American people deserve better. Why else would the Communication conglomerates like AT&T, etc (big donors to ALEC) want to be the arbitrator’s of what sites are available for viewing.
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