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GMA Asks, Will Obama’s Lower College Loan Payments Plan Help?
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by Edmund Jenks | October 28, 2011 at 06:31 pm
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Good Morning America (GMA) is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now. Its current one-hour weekend edition debuted in 2004. Image Credit: ABC News via ShareTV.org
Good Morning America (GMA) Asks, Will Obama’s Lower College Loan Payments Plan Help?
or … Why Corporate Media Gets It’s Label “Lame Stream Media” – Polling Question Analysis
About 40 hours ago, Good Morning America posted up this question at the polling centered social web portal known as SodaHead:
Obama Unveils New Plan to Lower College Loan Payments. Will It Help?
by Good Morning America – Posted October 26, 2011 (20 hours ago)
The answers were posed/written as follows:
Yes, I think it will make a difference to students. – 3,352 responses
No, the plan doesn’t go far enough! – 2,724 responses
[Reference Here]
A SodaHead “Thumbs-Up” graphic that people click on if they like an answer to a poll question. Image Credit: SodaHead
The most popular answer to a question as per the number of “thumbs up”:
By – Tinka123 (edited) / 39 hours ago
Q) No, the plan doesn’t go far enough!
A) These answers aren’t skewed.
I guess we know what answer Good Morning America wants – too bad they didn’t include us [people who are not liberal or progressive] in their poll.
How about NO – it won’t work?
A YES answer offered this opinion (it was the only opinion left by a YES answer respondent out of 31 total opinions offered in 6076 total poll answers):
State Street / 39 hours ago
Yes, it will help tremendously. Education should be affordable to everyone.
A society that’s healthy, educated, and confident is harder to control than one that isn’t.
That I believe is why there are many elements on the right that don’t want something like that to come to fruition.
One person decided not to answer but just leave a comment on someone else’s NO answer as a REPLY:
Lanikai / 27 hours ago
I refused to pick one of the two BIASED answers. So I am tagging on you, if you don’t mind.
The break down I saw this morning on MSNBC, showed that a $212,000.00 private college education for 4 years, would mean the student eventually paid back just under $29,000.00 and the taxpayers eat the rest.
UNFAIR on every level.
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We, at MAXINE, left the following response to the Good Morning America Poll:
I voted NO … but it is not a matter if The Executive Branch’s plan goes far enough or not.
I voted NO, it will not help because the indebted student class is being cast into the same role for Government intervention and solution as the banks during TARP. Students are a target for the Government to create an involvement, which will only screw things up even more, just as the Government getting involved in mortgages gave us the economy we enjoy today.
Instead of punishing banks and other money lenders of student loans … make the Colleges issue a REBATE – on behalf of those having trouble meeting the terms of their loans – to the Banks! Isn’t it time that the real gougers of students/society be made to pay for their own action of pricing themselves out of a formally stable market?
Just asking.
Hey, ABC! … Nice posed/written poll answer choices … NOT!
[Article first published as Good Morning America Asks Will Obama's Lower College Loan Payments Plan Help? at Technorati]
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at 22:08 on October 28th, 2011
Maybe the taxpayer could be organized and we could send a protest appeal to Obama to have our investment in government returned for systemic abuses. The real victim in all this social angst is the taxpayer who is treated by the government and the victim society as a debit card with infinite resources.
at 07:31 on October 29th, 2011
Wrong 30.6 ... if it were a debit card, the money would run out and we'd (and, thereby, the Government) be cut-off! Nope, the Government (and, thereby, the taxpayer) is using a very abusive credit instrument that functionally has NO LIMIT, the interest rates float, and the value of what is spent becomes devalued due to an absurd increase of the printed money supply ... by the Government.
We all wish the Government was on a debit card, and that was the end of it, because the muther would be shut down, we would be able to reset and get back to a long term view of rebuilding our families and lives.
at 08:50 on October 29th, 2011
While I think you misunderstood the "taxpayer who is treated by the government and the victim society as a debit card with infinite resources." I appreciate your argument that our ability to keep paying, and paying, is situational and ultimately controlled by the taxpayer as an ever depreciating resource.
at 18:00 on October 29th, 2011
We are on the same page - but I disagree with the analogy concept of the Debit card ... we do not have the resources for about $.40 on every $1.00 this Government spends (that is huge) so Chins chips in ... with interest! Debit cards only have fees, no interest. Credit has fees and interest and keeps the door open for MORE spending.
at 19:31 on October 29th, 2011
Either way. It's time for a tax revolt to wake up Washington and the victim masses that a global depression is not the time to be demanding even more from a people struggling under high unemployment, high national debt, and a runaway too large and too inefficient government with no inclination to fiscal responsibility, or willingness to curb it's tax and spend agenda.