Every family has a bad sheep, I guess, and Andrew should be an embarrassment to his father Mario, one of the real Democrats in the party.
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Some students protested in front of Sallie Mae, although I always felt the organization treated me well with regard to my still-unpaid student loan. They will work with you, unlike private lenders such as banks.
The problem with student loans is since the 1990s they can't be discharged in bankruptcy. Supposedly there was all of this fraud by students, and lenders lobbied Congress for special treatment. Unfortunately, or rather typically, Congress didn't foresee a time when the economy would be run into the ditch and few or no jobs created so students can pay their loans off.
By the way, if you are a licensed teacher or other professional, you can have your license pulled if you default. It certainly makes a whole lot of sense to take away a person's livelihood so they can't ever have a chance to pay a loan off. Fortunately I am nowhere near that status.
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The GOP race for the presidential nomination is all over but the shouting.
The ultra-right takes advantage of the steady shift to the right on the part of Obama and the Democrats, which has taken the form of one concession after another on social policy: a health care “reform” program based on slashing spending, embrace of the goal of deficit reduction through cuts in vital social programs, and most recently, the cave-in to the campaign by the Catholic Church for its “right” to veto contraception benefits for employees of church-run hospitals and colleges.
At every step, the Democrat in the White House legitimizes the ultra-right nostrums of the Republican right and seeks to confine official politics to the narrow differences that separate his policies from those of his semi-fascist opponents, excluding any consideration of alternatives based on the interests of working people.
It looks like the GOP is going to throw this election, too. Why not? The neolibs win no matter who is in the White House.
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Since I was removed over bogus charges, these allegations against LAUSD teachers are typical. An administrator can literally make shit up on a teacher he or she doesn't like.
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Angela Davis proves once and for all she is a has-been and damned near a never was:
There was a hush in the room, as if in mourning of the death of brain cells. Angela Davis was saying that Barack Obama is a man who identifies with the Black radical tradition. She said it casually, as if Black radicalism and Obama were not antithetical terms; as if everything he has written, said and done in national politics has not been a repudiation of the Black radical tradition; as if his rejection of his former minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was not a thorough disavowal of the Black radical tradition. In his famous 2008 campaign speech in Philadelphia, Obama blamed such radicals for compounding the nation’s problems. He viewed people like Rev. Wright as having been mentally scarred by battles of long ago, who were unable to see the inherent goodness of America, as he did. This is the man who said he agreed with President Ronald Reagan, that the Sixties were characterized by “excesses.” Can anyone doubt that Obama considers the historical Angela Davis, herself, to be a part of the political “excesses” of the Sixties and early Seventies that he so deplores?
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