"Bernie Sanders admits he is a Democratic Socialist. … Nazis were Democratic Socialists."

A few things on that. The people in those tweets don't know what they're talking about. Student loans are one of the few things that can't go thru a bankruptcy, that means they are better than a collateral loan. Collateral depreciates, student loans only continue to rake up interest until they are paid.

Also, the big complaint is federal student loans were 3%, congress allowed them to be raised them to 6%. Keep them at 3%.

 

HuffPost

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-g...bernie-sanders-surpass-hillary_b_8310326.html

Simply answering questions without being able to dodge contentious issues doesn't account for a win, nor does it make a candidate "presidential," "polished" or poised. The standard in American politics has been set lower than ever before, especially when a candidate's correspondents are being investigated by the FBI and other intelligence agencies, yet some observers declare this person a winner. Hillary Clinton did a good job of remaining confident during heated exchanges, however the questions themselves were indicative of why Bernie Sanders was the clear victor.

Fortunately for Clinton, Bernie Sanders refused to address the FBI's investigation of her emails. This allowed the former Secretary of State to miraculously circumvent relevant questions about Russia-linked hackers who tried to access Clinton's private server.

There used to be a time when Russia-linked hackers were bad for a presidential campaign, but alas, this is 2015 and everything is relative. To some voters, the Pentagon gets hacked, so who cares if Clinton used a private server?

As for character, yes, one candidate was confident amidst perpetual scandal, which endeared her to a base longing for some semblance of humanity in their presidential hopeful.

Bernie Sanders, however, did something unprecedented in American politics. While Hillary Clinton wasted no time in trying to make Sanders look like Ted Nugent on gun control, the Vermont Senator took the high road on emails.

Hillary Clinton was given an early Christmas present and was allowed to escape five to ten minutes of tense questioning about private servers and decision making.

Only poor Lincoln Chafee dared mention that he was scandal-free and ethical; we know why he stated those words. In a bizarre version of collective amnesia, nobody mentioned the Clinton Foundation weapons deal controversy. The Huffington Post explains that, "Even by the standards of arms deals between the United States and Saudi Arabia, this one was enormous."

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/31/us-usa-studentloans-rates-idUSBRE96U1G220130731

2013

Congress finally votes to cut student loan interest rates

U.S. college students will likely pay a reduced interest rate of 3.86 percent on their student loans for the new school year, after lawmakers on Wednesday finally passed a compromise bill that would reverse a recent rate hike.

The House of Representatives voted 392-31 in support of a bipartisan deal to lower interest rates on millions of new federal student loans. The Senate passed the bill on July 24 and President Barack Obama is expected to sign it into law.

The action followed months of partisan bickering, with Democrats and Republicans blaming each other for a politically embarrassing delay that had the potential to cost students and their parents thousands of dollars.

The legislation replaces a system in which Congress fixed interest rates every year and substitutes it with a market-based mechanism tied to the government's cost of borrowing and capped to protect borrowers in the event of a severe spike in rates.

The legislation passed just two days before Congress recesses for five weeks, after several failed efforts in the House and Senate.

Interest rates on student loans automatically doubled on July 1 to 6.8 percent after Congress failed to meet the deadline to prevent the rate increase. Congress has since incorporated a retroactive fix that would keep borrowers of loans originated since July 1 when rates had doubled from paying the higher rate.

The measure passed Wednesday pegs interest rates on student loans to the 10-year Treasury note plus 2.05 percentage points for undergraduates, and plus 3.6 percentage points for graduate student loans.

The interest rate would roughly work out to 3.86 percent this year for undergraduates and 5.42 percent for graduates.

 

I see that but the rates have since gone up from there.

https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/about/announcements/interest-rate

IMO, they should be 3%, for students, parents and graduates.

 

IMO, you should pay for it.

 

If they hack as good as they drive I'm not real worried.

 

They need Swedish Trump to build them a wall.

 

TellyMeow?

 

I was dying when I saw that last night.

And the woman playing Hillary was hilarious.