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Eastmandawg said:

Agree for the most part. But to me - the issue on some of these income driven loans is that you could pay as low as $0 per month if your income is low enough.

Some of these loans will never get repaid….a big issue FWIS.

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I was referring to a program in which some federal employees were told their student loans would be paid off if they worked for the federal government for a specific period (ten years?) I view that as an employment perk (an unwise perk, but a perk nonetheless). Income-based student loan cancellations that the Biden administration participated in I was totally against. I think I misread/misunderstood the OP's post.

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So things aren't as simple as they seem and our media doesn't always provide us with the complete truth? Whodathunkit.

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MaitlandFloridaDawg said:

I'm not sure about the legality of it, but I do have a problem with the administration reneging on a program put in place by a previous administration. A better approach would have been to stop the program moving forward, but it is bad business and immoral to pull the rug out from under federal employees who were banking on their student loans being paid off based on previous promises.

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Agree for the most part. But to me - the issue on some of these income driven loans is that you could pay as low as $0 per month if your income is low enough.

Some of these loans will never get repaid….a big issue FWIS.

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Cayle16 said:

BUT why and how is it legal for Trump admin to take away income based replayment plan applications when they were put in place by congressional vote. The problem is they are not necessarily taking away the plan itself but have taken down the recertification application from the website that will result in people being taken off the plan. Pretty terrible idea that will not end well for him if he does continue to shit on student loan payers.

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I'm not sure about the legality of it, but I do have a problem with the administration reneging on a program put in place by a previous administration. A better approach would have been to stop the program moving forward, but it is bad business and immoral to pull the rug out from under federal employees who were banking on their student loans being paid off based on previous promises.

willdup said:

1) I don't worship anyone or anything related to our federal government. That's just a weird choice of words that seems to be a favorite when discussing opposition on the left.

2) All large organizations have inefficiencies, including corporations. The federal government is a massive organization that is designed to serve many interests. As I said before, there is always an opportunity to improve efficiency while preserving capability, but DOGE is failing at that.

3) If you are serious about reigning in the deficit, you would be raising hell about the fact that DJT and the GOP just passed a budget that is projected to raise the deficit by $2t to $2.5t over the next decade, all while gutting current entitlements.

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1. You can't even bring yourself to admit Biden's 20 billion out the door at the last minute to orgs created by cronies is unacpetable. I'm not sure I have ever seen you condemn any actions taken by the authoritarian statist of the left. A government worshiper and statist sycophant defends the indefensible in the name of the leaders of their tribe.

2. True, all large org have inefficiencies but the competition and desire to profit usually leads to the discovery and elimination of orgs that are out of control. Large corps closing divisions that are no longer profitable or necessary is common place. Eliminating out of control government agencies while assigning their worthy tasks to other divisions should be common place as well. If the established pols would have competently managed the growth of government, the chainsaw wouldn't be needed today.

3, WGAS about projections? If government statisticians have proven anything over the yrs, it's they can hold their jobs while being less accurate than a weatherman calling for snow in July in Atl.

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