Trump EO Cancels Student Loan Debt for Disabled Veterans

[Trailrider]

Let's not forget that when Berney Sanders said he wanted to forgive student loan debt, 99.9% of this site when nuts about his socialist rhetoric. But it's OK when Trump does it. I get it, it's for the vets, but in the end debt is never actually forgiven. Just somebody else has to pay for it(the rest of us).

 

[keith089]

I paid as I went, then, I used VOC rehab, so I never had any out of pocket after that. Glad to see this happening. I am sure some assholes will complain.......but who cares!

 

[BanjoJohn]

A little misleading. The EO creates an expedited process to an already existing debt forgiveness process for disabled veterans. A very good thing for these vets, nonetheless.

So good, in fact, that Major Bonespurs was ready to give himself a medal.


Trump kicked off the beginning of his speech joking that he'd weighed giving himself a Medal of Honor, the highest recognition that can be awarded to those who've served in the military.

"I wanted one, but they told me I don't qualify," Trump, who received multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam War, said to the gathering of veterans. "I said 'could I give it to myself anyway?' They said, 'I don't think that's a good idea.'"

This guy

He could given himself a Nobel Peace Prize like Obama the Muslim.

 

[Bypass]

President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday that forgives all student loan debt for any permanently disabled U.S. military veterans.

The order, which Trump signed following a speech at the American Veterans National Convention in Louisville, Ky., also clears those eligible veterans from having to pay any federal income tax on the loans. Trump added that he is pressuring individual states to follow suit.

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Permanently disabled veterans have had free college for years. So do their kids.

 

[Ex313]

They terminated the GI bill just before I enlisted and replaced it with something like a 401K that would pay for two years of community college.
Then the Middle East wars kicked in and the GI Bill was back.
I was a peacetime (Coldwar) vet who saw people get hurt on duty through no fault of their own. Those folks should have gotten some assistance with tuition when they were medically discharged. I'm sure most of them did.

A person who enlisted for whatever reason during a shooting war like the one we've been in for the last 20 years should have access to these benefits because they're essentially writing a blank check with their lives to the government. Cooks don't fight, but they do get killed when someone decides to mortar the base for the lulz. Truck drivers aren't expected to fight but they end up getting ambushed. Air Force cops are usually safely in the rear with the gear but they're being used to protect convoys that get ambushed.

I know a guy who joined the Marines and his military occupation is "Printer". He's a Marine who prints stuff. He'll never see combat. Is he less of a Marine because of his occupation ? Should he not wear the Bro-Vet t-shirts with the skulls carrying knives in their teeth? He's still a Marine. If he gets injured as a POG he's still going to be a Marine no matter what the circumstances are. If he's disabled because a printer fell on him through no fault of his own or if he's disabled because he fell off the printer while photocopying his ass I don't see any difference. He (and all of the vets in the other services) signed up for a job that could potentially take them into harms way and therefore any injury while they are enlisted should be good enough for them to get the educational benefits that the Defense Department is offering.

 

[palmettomoon]

Nah. **** that. Disability because you slipped in your piss and twisted your knee because you thought a truck backfiring was a SCUD attack ain't the same thing is having your brain egg scrambled by an IED or having your finger shot off or worse in an ambush.

 

[FrankDracman]

Let me get this straight, your value to society as a Disabled Veteran is determined by where and how you served ? Do you think those guys who are permanently injured in training accidents preparing for war to protect your asses are any less deserving of debt forgiveness ?

 

[palmettomoon]

If the requirements are loosened sufficiently every lazy piece of s*** that has a medical profile is going to be asking for the government to forgive their $180,000 worth of University of Phoenix debt.

 

[palmettomoon]

Let me get this straight, your value to society as a Disabled Veteran is determined where and how you served ? Do you think those guys who are permanently injured in training accidents preparing for war to protect your asses are any less deserving of debt forgiveness ?

Don't equate falling asleep on the track of an M1 Abrams during a training exercise and getting yourself run over with having your leg blown off buy a landmine.

 

[NewLeaf]

A lot of folks are critical of the disabled until they are disabled. JustSayin