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My favorite story out of this is Malia, when she was 4, she had a little dance thing. Well, Michelle was gone that weekend so I’m taking her to ballet. And I get her in her little leotard and her little stuff. I did her hair, put it in a little bun.
We get to the dance studio and one of the mothers there right away comes up to Malia – she thinks she’s out of earshot of me and she says, ‘Sweetie, do you want me to redo your hair?’ And Malia who she’s 4 says, ‘Yes please, this is a disaster’ you know, she didn’t want to hurt daddy’s feelings.
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Politics …
The Republican party has a commercial bashing President Obama dealing with student loans. The commercial states that Obama rather small businesses pay more in taxes in order to offset the $6 billion it would cost to keep the rates down. Repubs would rather eliminate a preventive health program established by the President. If the senate does not agree (and agree quickly) on how to offset the cost of being able to keep the rates down on student loans -the student loan interest rate will double in July. But let’s look at the larger issue here: WHY is the Republican house senators wasting their time making PSAs about what the President is doing/not doing instead of trying to come to an agreement for the 7.1 billion students out there who must take a loan???????! This is what I fail to understand about the Senate GOP.
Everyone is quick to point the finger at President Obama when in actuality - it’s the senate who MUST agree and pass laws. The President proposes them - the senate passes them. Mind you, Congress was on a break for a week (probably when the Repub’s decided to start their campaign against the President), and now they have to go in and debate whether to go with the Democratic plan or the Repub plan. Now if you do your research, you would know that the Repub commercial was (partially) a lie. The Democratic plan is to NOT attack small businesses, but to collect more social security and medicare payroll taxes from HIGH-EARNING OWNERS of some PRIVATELY held corporations. These corporations are known for skating pass paying taxes as long as they make a large anonymous donation to a charity in the United States at the end of the year. This is how the rich stays rich, and the poor remains poor. The President is NOT aiming to tax small businesses, he wants to tax those who need to be taxed - high-earning owners of privately held corporations. What’s wrong with that???????????
Instead of taxing them, the Republicans idea is to pull funds from a preventive health care fund that President Obama put in place. You see the issue there? Repub’s are against anything Obama is for, and wants to tear down anything Obama already put in place. This all does not fall back on the Senate or Congress - this falls back on the President. All you hear in the press is what OBAMA isn’t doing right, and the promises he is failing to keep. But how can he achieve anything with a stubborn Congress?
But not only that - what they’re fighting over is NOT going to make that huge of an affect! The student loan fight would only affect the interest rates for subsidized Stafford loans for undergrad students issued after July 1. Meaning, interest rates for existing loans won’t change, private loans won’t change and grad school, or any other school outside of undergrad won’t change. The subsidized Stafford loan is generally less costly than private and grad school student loans, anyway and it really would only affect 7 billion students. Reason why the subsidized Stafford loan is the only one affected is because it is the only loan that the gov’t pays interest for students while they’re still in school.
Instead of bashing, and going against each other in Congress what they need to do is put all that energy and money into advertisements persuading students to pay their interests while going to school. What most students do not know (until you are well out of school) is that interest on loans accrues while you’re in school. If you do not make interest payments, the interest capitalizes making your monthly payments once out of school higher.
Politics are truly a trip and truly NOT for the people. Because if the Republicans…or even the Democrats for that matter..are truly for US, then that is the type of information that would be put out there instead of telling us what the President is not doing and what promises he couldn’t keep. I would have much rather respected an informative commercial about how to keep your balance low once out of school other than a commercial about President Obama attacking businesses in order to pass some bill about keeping rates low on one loan out of tons.
But what’s the congress without a little fight? What’s politics without a controversy?
