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9/5/2022 Monday. Big Week Ahead... Everyone:
Congress comes back into session tomorrow. What we do between now and the end of the month could mean everything for getting the student loan problem solved. To that end:
This truly is your battle. -Alan
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9/4/2022 Sunday ActionHey Everyone-
Glad to report that Elizabeth Warren has picked up on our push on the Attorney General, so that bodes well. This week, Congress is back in session (starting Tuesday), so we'll need a huge amount of effort from everyone to get S.2598 through. To that end:
Let's make this our strongest week ever. -Alan ps. See our Fox News Interview from last week. 9/2/2022 Friday ActionEveryone-
A small but significant "win" in the ongoing battle. I'm glad to report that our action two weeks ago to compel Attorney General Garland has gained momentum. Senator Elizabeth Warren is now joining us in our call on Garland to stop delaying the Department of Education's commitment to stop opposing student loan borrowers in bankruptcy court. Hopefully more to come on this soon... Today's Action:
*** Interview Request *** I'm a reporter for States Newsroom working on a story about how the Biden administration's announcement on student debt cancellation will affect the financial decisions of borrowers. I'm particularly interested in speaking with people who never graduated with a degree, attended a community college, or attended a for-profit college, but I'd be grateful to speak with anyone willing to share how this may affect them, whether it's how much they spend on groceries, moving into a new home, or how they think about other kinds of debt they're carrying. I realize that for many people, this won't be enough for them to make a meaningful change in their finances, and I can speak to you about that issue as well. If you wish to talk with me for this piece, please reach out at [email protected]. My actual full name is Casey Quinlan -Alan ps. Please Donate 9/1/2022 September 1st ActionHey All-
Please take this poll. Today's action is quick:
Sincerely, Alan Collinge ps. see last night's live stream 8/31/2022 August 31stHey All-
The fight- your fight- continues today & the opposition is not letting up. Good shout out yesterday for us from John Cusack thanks to Doug in Indiana. If you know of a celebrity you think might help us, please do what you can to make that happen! Today's action:
If you set 'em up, we'll knock 'em down! Make today count. -Alan ps. Please Donate. 8/30/2022 Tuesday. Interview Request Hey All-
The battle rages! See last night's live stream. Today's action:
Interview Request: Business Insider is looking for conservatives willing to be interviewed about the student loan cancellation announced last week. If this is you, please email [email protected], and let her know! See our interview at Fox News on Saturday. This is your battle, folks. Let's make this week count! -Alan 8/29/2022 Monday, August 29th Everyone-
I hope you caught our interview Saturday on Fox News. We hope to be doing more of these. Our opposition is going ballistic right now. We have to shut them down. I hope you all are pleased and appreciate that we started the public conversation on the concept of student loan cancellation by executive order, and that we've gotten to this point with President Biden. However, there is very good reason to be skeptical and wary of his cancellation pledge in the continued absence of bankruptcy rights. More than ever, we need to fight for S.2598 in the month of September, before early voting begins in October. We're doing our best over here on this end, but we need your help. To that end...Today's Action:
This truly is your battle. The month of September could be it for us. PLEASE MAKE THIS WEEK COUNT. -Alan. ps. Please donate. We need 34 people to donate $20 (or the equivalent) this week. 8/27/2022 Saturday, August 27thHey All-
We're going on Fox News today at 1:42pm eastern time, to debate one of our adversaries. I hope you will check it out. The media is being overwhelmed right now by our opposition. This may be one of our few chances to counter them, so please find Fox News on Twitter, Facebook, or other platforms, and weigh in on our side if you can. Let's fight fire with fire! -Alan 8/26/2022 Friday, August, 26thGood Morning All-
I trust you all have heard about Biden's student loan cancellation announcement on Wednesday. Please read our analysis. This announcement is significant, to be sure, and we all should be very proud to have started the public conversation on the concept of student loan cancellation by executive order! I hope you are pleased. However, there is very good reason to be skeptical and wary of this plan. It is vague, ambiguous, and frankly unimpressive to most of the people in our group who owe far more than $10,000 - $20,000. Also, not one dollar has been cancelled yet, and won't be until next year. We could see this plan weakened in the interim, and come to mean almost nothing for almost everyone, ultimately. We go over this in detail in our article. As long as the threat of bankruptcy remains gone from these loans, we remain vulnerable to all the same tricks that the Department of Education has played in year's/decades past, where almost no one actually gets any meaningful relief, and all of the predatory underpinnings of this lending program remain in place, and cause us harm. This really is not the time to be celebrating. On the contrary, all of this only underscores the importance of returning bankruptcy rights to these loans. More than ever, we need to fight for S.2598 in the month of September, before early voting begins in October. To that end...Today's Action:
This truly is the battle, folks. -Alan ps. Please donate. 8/24/2022 August 24th: VERY BIG NEWSEveryone:
President Biden finally announced a loan cancellation action today. They say they will cancel "up to $10,000" for everyone earning less than $125,000/year, and "Up to $20,000" for people who received the Pell Grant while in college. The repayment pause is also extended through the first of next year. I hope that you all can appreciate the fact that this all started here, with our petition, and the first article ever written on the concept of loan cancellation by executive order in August 2019. We have been the driving force behind this since that time, and so you should be very glad that we have come to this point. I hope you are pleased & proud. HOWEVER: This proposal is extremely untrustworthy, ambiguous, and borderline unserious. The "Up to" language they used could literally mean anything, and history has shown that if the Department of Education sees a way to NOT cancel loans, they will vigorously exploit it. There will be an application, means-testing, and certainly all manner of other hurdles erected such that- if history is any guide- the large majority of borrowers will get very little, if anything. Please read the announcement for yourself with a critical eye. So unfortunately, this is definitely not the time to celebrate. As long as the threat of bankruptcy remains gone from these loans, we are unlikely to see meaningful loan cancellation from the Biden Administration. This is why we are fighting so hard for S.2598, and why we need your help to get it through. We have until the end of the year, but the month of September is especially critical. See the livestream we just did to understand this fully. Today's Action:
Sincerely, Alan ps. Please donate. |