jtallen83 wrote: OK, a "student loan" may be all government administrated or something but my bank agreed to loan to me if I needed so I threw away all the papers the school tried to get me to fill out. A student loan can be a private loan, there is no law forcing you to borrow for school or telling you who you have to borrow from, only a well established bureaucracy that pushes the government controlled system, hell they even made me take a class about how to get food stamps! The local bank no longer gets a subsidy or guarantee for a school loan but they were way under the government rate on what they offered me and would have been happy to give me the loan.
I agree it will be a bubble to burst, wish I could know for sure it was next so I could short the appropriate funds. Any guesses how long before the youngsters decide to stop paying in mass or will it just be part of the slow natural decay we are experiencing now? Drip by drip the liberty floats falls away...........
What your bank did was make you a personal loan. That is legal but FDIC banks can no longer make student loans. If your bank is private then they are exempt.
Don't worry about the bubble bursting, its won't, but YOU as a taxpayer is gonna stop it...
"Obama Plans to Expand Student Loan Forgiveness
Billions of dollars in student loans could be forgiven over the next decade, under a proposal in President Barack Obama's budget to expand the program's income-based repayment system.
Student advocates are enthusiastic over the prospect, but critics complain the expansion could extend a program that already encourages young people to borrow too much money and leave taxpayers with their college bills, reports the Wall Street Journal. They also say forgiving debt gives a taxpayer gift to people who need it the least, such as attorneys, doctors, and other white-collar people with graduate degrees.
The program already allows most borrowers with loans issued since October 2007 to make payments equal to 10 percent of their income after taxes and basic living expenses. After 20 years of on-time payments, or 10 years for people working in public or nonprofit jobs, the rest of the balance is forgiven.
The program was originally created in 2007 during the George W. Bush program, with payments limited to 15 percent of income and to continue for 25 years.
Obama wants to open the program to all those who borrowed before 2007 as well, and make the part of the loan that is forgiven become tax exempt, as loan forgiveness is normally considered taxable income.
Advocates say the expansion can help curb rising defaults on student loans without harming households and the economy.
But on Thursday, House Republicans and Senate Democrats introduced bills to replace the current loans' fixed rates with variable rates based on the government's borrowing costs.
The House bill, proposed by Education Committee Chairman John Kline, R-Minn., sets rates higher than those in a plan by Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, but caps them so they don't go over a certain threshold. Without the measures, the rates on some new federal loans could double to 6.8 percent on July 1."
Read more:
www.newsmax.com/US/obama-student-loan-fo...2013/05/10/id/503865
