Lower Interest Rates on Student Loans?

Senate Democrats killed GOP House Bill which tied student loan rates to the Treasury Note 10 Year Rate of 2.6%

Click here for related story [Bill Chappell, NPR]

NPR [National Public Radio] subsidized by taxpayers and oil companies, has become the propaganda organ for the Administration and the Democrats in general -- ever on the attack on anything and everything Conservative/GOP.

Today's headline tells us that those mean old Republicans have killed a bill in the Senate which would have allowed students [and their parents] to refinance their student loans to get substantially lower rates.  But, once again, NPR is acting a purveyor of Democrat propaganda since NPR omits the critical reasons WHY the GOP blocked this bill.

They omit the fact that the House Republicans passed a bill on 23 May 2014 which would tie the interest rates on student loans directly to the interest rate on a 10-year Treasury Note.  That bill was killed by Harry Reid when it arrived at the Senate.

Instead,
Liz Warren, our Native American Senator
[well, she once saw the movie The Last Mohican, thus qualifying her to claim Indian heritage since she lives in New England, as did the Mohicans until Warren's ancestors killed them all]
proposed Tax Increase legislation in which she included one provision by which students [or their parents] could refinance their education loans.

Now, if that were the sole element in the legislation, it would have flown through Congress and straight to the Oval Office for signature, even though the earlier House Republican Bill was far more effective in reducing student loan interest rates; the GOP bill tied Student Loan Rates to Treasury's Ten-Year Note Rate, currently at 2.59%.

But, buried in the Democrat legislative proposal were lots of new taxes on "The Rich".
You know, all those "One Percenters" [of whom are many NPR luminaries and and executives].

We agree that these loans should be available for refinancing at a lower rate.
What NPR omitted from their story, however, are the details of the provisions to raise "Taxes on the Rich" to compensate the federal costs of the program causing the GOP [and conscientious Democrats] to block it.  

We call that Lying By Omission -- the basis for "Grey Propaganda".

We don't need more "taxes on the rich" -- which we've noted quickly trickle down to become increased taxes on the Middle Class. Furtively mixing in long-term taxes with otherwise appealing measures of public benefit has  been a long-term propaganda gimmick by the DNC to increase taxes for everyone under the guise of targeting the very wealthy. 

So, think this one through -- and read the legislation, not just the emotional headlines!

Al's kiss ended his marriage

Al Gore introduced a similar "Tax on the Rich" when he was a senator; but, due to inflation, his "Rich Category" back then now encompasses a large percentage of the Middle Class -- into which well-educated students [and their parents] will find themselves -- i.e., with higher taxes and fewer deductions.

Inflation does that.  For example, in 1960, you could buy a nice, upscale suburban house for $20,000 with an income of $10,000 per year; if you earned $35,000 a year, you were considered wealthy.  By 1980, that same house would have cost $80,000, and your income would have been $30,000 a year; you'd have been considered rich if you earned $50,000 a year.  Today, you're at the bottom end of the Middle Class if you earn $50,000 a year.

[Al doesn't pay much in taxes since he routes all his income through a trust fund which funds his house, his cars, and all his expenses; the trust fund is likely structured as a non-profit, so there would be a minimal tax liability.]

Gore's AMT [Alternate Minimum Tax on "the rich"] takes away many of these Middle Class deductions

1) standard deduction,
2) personal exemptions,
3) home equity mortgage interest,
4) miscellaneous deductions such as employee business expenses, and
5) the bargain element of any incentive stock options you exercised

Now, we suggest one alternate and very effective means to offsetting the cost to the federal government for such a program, instead of increasing taxes, would be to simply cut the subsidies and grants to NPR -- or just cutting the salaries of the all the "One Percenters" in NPR [Google NPR salaries to see who makes in the mid- 6 figures, or even 7 figures.

Hillary's Missile Deal Cost US Lives

Hillary's Legacy - Providing the Missiles to the Taliban to shoot down US helicopters  [Eyre International]

Click here for related article [Steve Gunn - Progressives Today]

Clinton & Morsi planning Benghazi?         

Early in 2011, Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, had the CIA provide Qatar [our Ally] a variety of weapons with which to bring down the Libyan regime of Qadafi -- with whom we had an explicit agreement on several levels, one of which was that he would provide US Intelligence critical information on terrorist organizations throughout the region.

In the end, Clinton provided Qatar with sophisticated weaponry, which was then provided to the Taliban.  Qadafi was indeed deposed, and of course, we lost one of our most valuable intelligence assets in the war on terror.

We wondered about the double-cross on Qadafi, but then, once we calculated that the Saudis regarded Qadafi as a competitor, and the European Union regarded Libya as an excellent source of free oil, there wasn't much to figure out as to why the Mr obama [the Saudi king's acolyte] would destroy one of our most valuable intelligence resources and reduce the supply of oil on the world market.

But, let's get back to that weaponry.

Some of you may recall that the Benghazi debacle was closely tied to illegal weapons transfers, an issue Ambassador Stevens was intent on investigating and revealing.  He was reporting on these transfers via secret communications in Italy since he could not trust his own CIA Station Chief to safeguard the communications; in fact, it appears he was up against the CIA Station Chief in these transfers -- caught between the CIA and the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.

So, what were the weapons provided to Qatar, and how did they come into play?

Thanks Hillary

As you may recall,
a US Black Hawk helicopter was shot down north of Kandahar City in August 2012
-- with two US SEALs and an EOD [Explosive Ordinance Disposal] expert killed;

in August, 2011, the Taliban shot down a CH-47 Chinook killing all 38 on-board, to include 25 Special Ops personnel.






After a long investigation, it turns out that the Taliban's weapons of choice were US missiles, originally believed to have been provided to Afghan insurgents during their resistance against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

US Stinger Missile in the wrong hands     [Prima-Plora.com]

That fantasy was debunked when EOD experts determined that the missiles were of a much more recent vintage;

a serial number found on an unexploded part of one of the Stinger missiles
-- tied it to the batch provided, by order of Hillary Clinton in 2011, via the CIA to Qatar
-- which then provided them to the Taliban.

Russian SA-24 shoulder fired SAM [Igla-S]      [imfdb.org]

According to the US Special Operations Community, between 50 - 60 of those CIA Stinger missiles were delivered to the Taliban in 2012, while an additional 200 Russian SA-24 Igla-S SAMs [Surface to Air Missiles] also were delivered to the Taliban.



None of this comes as a real surprise since the CIA has not really answered to anyone in recent years, much less the SSCI [Senate Select Committee on Intelligence].

Hillary Clinton's lack of foreign policy experience, and her minuscule understanding of Intelligence operations made her an absolute patsy in this process -- but it was a role she relished because it gave her a sense of power
-- and once again, it cost American lives.

But, this little tidbit fits neatly into the Benghazi scenario, doesn't it?

Seattle Shooting - Contrived?

Locking down Seattle Pacific University -- after its all over                                             [Breitbart] 

Click here for related story [Breitbart, by AWR Hawkins]

When the Liberal Media began questioning, or rather CHALLENGING the Administration's explanations of the motivation behind Mr obama's collaboration with the Taliban and unauthorized release of five terrorists in exchange for Sergeant Bergdahl -- who clearly had deserted, we suspect that Valerie Jarrett was in full swoon.

Bergdahl and Mentor  [CBS News]

The Bergdahl Media Event was going south in a hurry.  The "hero" designation just wouldn't stick, basically because Bergdahl's platoon buddies refused to adhere to the NDIs [Non-Disclosure Agreement] they were forced to sign, which had, until now, barred them from disclosing the circumstances of his coming up "missing" from his unit when they knew he had deserted.

Essentially, they all said the same thing: Bergdahl tossed away his weapons and then sought out the Taliban to join them, and then taught them the skill sets to kill his American unit buddies.

They were not amused, and six of Bergdahl's buddies were killed looking for him.

So, what to do!
A quick conference call to Podesta and Axelrod should have created a quick crisis, and what better crisis than a mass shooting.  After all, it worked pretty well in Aurora and Sandy Hook [where there were so many actors and DHS personnel it looked like a convention -- and NOBODY could get their stories straight], and it almost worked at the Washington Navy Yard [where the identified perp looked nothing like the official "perp" who died on the scene].

The Administration just can't gin up a mass-shooting crisis on a moment's notice any more since they've burned up their reserves.  Turning out shooters from their controlled psych programs had merit, but it takes a while for those chemicals to kick in so the selected "perp" can follow instructions, particularly those which result in his "suicide" -- which eliminates those awkward contradictory comments and confessions which folks like us just love to pick apart.

In this case, we suspect the "perp" was supposed to have "committed suicide" after shooting as many folks as possible; and the responding SWAT unit would have ensured that he wasn't around to spill details.

The official story -- released almost immediately after the shooting -- was that he was enamored of the Columbine shooting and wanted to repeat it.  But, he followed none of the Columbine processes -- no plan, no buddies, and he used a shotgun with no extra weaponry.
So, that story will fall apart fairly quickly under minimum scrutiny.

But, goshdarn it!
This perp blew it! -- and how dare the hall monitor interfere with a perfectly good engineered crisis!

Rifle Casings

Shotgun Casings

This guy was armed with a  shotgun, but exiting students described a scene strewn with empty rifle casings -- not shotgun cartridges.  Shotgun shells don't look like rifle cartridges.  But, even had they been shotgun cartridges, there shouldn't have been that many visible since the perp fired only a few rounds before attempting to reload.

If we were a cynic -- and you all know were not -- we might suggest that the stage was being set for a mass murder scenario akin to Sandy Hook or Colorado -- or even Columbine if they'd just had more perps!  But, with the unexpected interruption of the shooter, there just wasn't time to cover their tracks by picking up the rifle shells and leaving only shotgun casings.

Sandy Hook was SOOOO embarrassing because the official story was that the shooter had used an assault rifle, evidenced by hundreds of empty rifle casings --- but, but, but the rifle he was supposed to have used was shown in the trunk of his car by a cop on the scene -- in a TV video!  Tough to explain all those casings.  Worse, was that Mr obama posed with a grinning little girl on his lap who had, only the day before, been honored as one of the victims, and whose parents were captured on TV grieving over the death of this very child!

The shooter, Aaron Ybarra, fits the profile of our previous mass shooters, all of whom intended to "commit suicide".  

Shooter Ybarra [Facebook]

Friends of Ybarra, 26, regarded him as friendly, laid back, an "amazing friend, calm and nice, and a good worker".  One friend advised, "It makes no sense at all, he was super happy and friendly, an awesome guy who would never let you down".  Prior to the shooting, he had called a friend with an invitation to "... go fishing."
[This is the shooter?]

We're reminded of a similar description of the shooter at the Washington Navy Yard, and of the shooter in Aurora.
[Is there a pattern here?]

"Police sources" [unnamed, unidentified] immediately advised that he had once called 911 to say that he "had a rage" inside him.  They further noted that Ybarra was obsessed with the Columbine shootings in Colorado, that he "liked a Facebook page about guns and snipers".

Unidentified police added "... he wanted to shoot up a school" and "he was hell-bent on killing a lot of people"-- although there was no context, history, or background for those declarations.  Police also referred to police reports in which Ybarra was "lying drunken in the street in front of his home yelling at a SWAT unit [they did not advise why there was a SWAT unit on his street].

Now, that's one hell of a lot of information on a guy who was arrested and charged only a few hours earlier.  It might seem that the police had a file on Ybarra ready to go and discuss coincident with the arrival of a fully equipped SWAT unit at the University only moments after the shooting.

John Meis  [AP/Seattle Times]

If this had followed the standard script, the police would have swarmed in, shut down the area around the school for blocks in every direction, called in TV crews, and this would have been even more intense than the Sandy Hook event -- perhaps with an equal number of actors.  And the grand script finale would have been a report that the shooter had "committed suicide" -- eliminating him as a criminal defendant who might expose how he came to become a "shooter".  

But, Meis, a building monitor, on the scene and armed with pepper spray, then knocked Ybarra down, and other students joined in the action to hold him down, turning him over to the police [and SWAT unit] who arrived within minutes of the shooting!
What a great response time!

Another odd thing was that the school was then locked down, officially to search for other perps - of whom there were none, and officials with bull-horns entered the classrooms to announce that the students had to stay in the locked and darkened classrooms -- and they weren't allowed to contact their parents.  

If you were a parent, and your kid was at that school, and you'd heard reports of at least one student's death [age/sex not disclosed], chances are you'd be going crazy.  

So, why the 90 minute lock-down and communications silence?

Certainly not to secure the building; it was secure, the perp was in custody.  

Could it have been so the "cleaners" could come in to prep the scene with the proper litter and perhaps clean up the litter that just didn't fit [e.g., rifle casings when no rifle was used]?

But, then we have the politicized, prepared anti-gun speech by Seattle Mayor Ed Murray

"... once again, the epidemic of gun violence has come to Seattle -- the epidemic of gun violence that is haunting this nation."

Oddly enough, there were several shootings that same day in other Seattle locations, one at a homeless shelter, but those were not mentioned by either the Mayor or the national media.

So, what's this all about?
What better way to distract Americans outraged at Mr obama for collaborating with terrorists than to have ALL the talking heads talking, once again, about gun violence, and the absolutely, positively, certainly NEED TO DISARM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!  to protect them, by Gawd!