By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--April 26, 2017
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"Among the more than 40 million Americans with student loans, 1 in 4 are either in default or struggling to stay current, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. While the lackluster economic recovery plays a role, the situation has been exacerbated by the poor practices of the Education Department's loan contractors. The department told the White House in a Thursday report that empowering those loan contractors and reducing their workload were keys to reducing borrower distress. "Yet in May, the Education Department had cleared Navient Corp., the student loan giant formerly known as Sallie Mae, of wrongdoing despite Justice Department allegations that the company intentionally cheated thousands of active-duty service members on their student loans. "Thousands of Americans who took out loans from Duncan's department to attend unscrupulous for-profit colleges are now fighting to force him to cancel their debts on the grounds that they were defrauded on the Education Department's watch."Meanwhile with so many mothers burying their sons in the ongoing black-on-black street violence in Chicago, someday in the not too distant future, a brilliant Ben Carson-like student will take the floor at one of Obama's university addresses telling him point blank that stirring racial tension is no way to end it. OFA's desperate attempt to reintroduce Obama as president rather than private citizen is not going to wash. Nothing they have done or will ever do can possibly change the outcome of Election 2016. The News will spread far and wide that Obama's Army of Community Disorganizers was a big fail from the get-go. Some down-to-earth students are already saying that other than in his own technicolor, $65-million book contract dreams, Barack Obama is "NOT MY PRESIDENT" but only "yesterday's man".
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