Maybe even enhancing it by citing biblical support.
Hey look, another BIG WIN for the GOP anti-LGBT crowd in North Carloina.
Now they are going to go down to the beach and sweep back the tide.
Mmm… formaldehyde scrapple.
Like the “Romneycare” section in Romney’s book, that part will just be quietly removed from the next printing of Jeb’s, and they can try to pretend it never happened.
Now that I’ve actually read Jeb’s words, they’re even better: he’s not in favor of shaming all unwed mothers, just those from “the inner city” [dog whistle code for “black”]
Nevada Congressman: Disabled people are a drain on society.
I’m not sure his count of how many children he has is correct, either. The numbers don’t add up.
Well, here you go:
Shit, I thought these guys wanted to go back to the 1950s, but it seems they’re shooting for the 1590s.
He is including the one he does not know about.
To be honest, his last sentences were so incoherent I’m not sure just what he meant to say, but the story makes a reasonable inference of his intent.
I’m not at all sure what he was trying to say, or what context it was in. Certainly some disabled people do have a cost to society. It’s the mark of a civilized society that they are taken care of despite that cost. However, given that he was speaking to a libertarian group, I’m going to think that that is not what he meant.
Ugh. This guy is my representative, and he can’t even count to three (or is it four?).
In 2014 he somehow defeated an African-American Democrat, Steve Horsford.
Who can blame them? Economically, they’ve got us back to the Gilded Age. They’re on a roll!
Unless there’s more to it than described there, I think that’s actually a fine idea, and not remotely anything like “indentured servitude”.
As described, the idea sounds like “you loan me money to pay for college, then instead of me paying you back the loan amount plus interest, I agree to pay you back 8% of my income for the next 15 years” or something. Which is just a student loan with an element of a gamble built in, and really is not sinister at all.
I think we have previously visited this precious lass
*The legislature’s debate to expand a gun owner’s right to carry took a pious turn when state Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, suggested the real problem behind gun violence was corrupted souls.
“It is the soul that is corrupt and how we get back to a moral rebirth in this country, I don’t know,” Allen told the state’s appropriations committee on Tuesday. “We are slowly eroding religion at every opportunity that we have. We should probably be debating a bill requiring every American to attend a church of their choice on Sunday to see if we can get back to having a moral rebirth.”*(emphasis mine)
But lord all mighty, she does bring the stupid.
Any Republican participating in the Heartland Institute today qualifies for this thread, but more so the ones that are willing to use the law to do more than just to deny the science.
He is also counting on the lazy media to not report much about his efforts to also defund any efforts to collect data about the issue, he really does believe that stupid idea that what you don’t know can’t hurt you.
As Phil Plait, The Bad Astronomer points out, it is very transparent what the Republicans are trying to do.
Let’s wait for the details.
Are there any guarantees for the creditors? If the student wants to join the Peace Corps after graduation, or just opt for a lower-paying job to live in a certain city, will that be permitted, or will he be obligated to maximize his earnings?
Who chooses the terms of the loan; can the student choose whether to get a standard loan or this percent-of-income scheme, or does the lender get to choose based on the expected payoff for that student’s field of study?
What counts as income; if the student wants to donate money to a charity, does that come before or after the repayment amount is calculated? If the student hits some windfall, lottery, investment, stock options, inheritance, do those count to their payment calculations even if they’re totally unrelated to the education that was financed by the loan?
What happens if the student declares bankruptcy; is he protected from these creditors, or do they go to the front of the line?
Ask yourself who’s going to write the rules for this type of arrangement. I don’t think it will be the students.
I get to carry a gun and I have to attend a church of my choice? Cool, I choose a Mormon temple, and I’ll shoot my way in if I have to. Mormons won’t like it, but I am compelled by the state to go and I do have a gun.
All reasonable questions. My point is not that I endorse the specific proposal, as we have no details. My point is that there are plenty of actually clearly idiotic Republican ideas out there without comparing a vaguely defined and potentially quite reasonable student loan plan to indentured servitude.