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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 02:11 PM Aug 2014

Senator Elizabeth Warren left one banker stammering for an answer during a hearing on student loans.

Senator Elizabeth Warren left one banker stammering and stumbling for an answer during a hearing on student loans.





From her Facebook page:

In 2005, banking lobbyists successfully convinced Congress to remove bankruptcy protections for private student loan borrowers. Today in a Banking Committee hearing, I asked a top banking lobbyist: If struggling student loan borrowers can't discharge their loans in bankruptcy, and banks won’t let them modify their loans, what are they supposed to do? Watch what he said.

She also cited the story reported by CNN Money of a young woman who died leaving 3 small children and $100,000 in student debt behind. Watch him sputter as he tries to spin a response that deflects away from the fact that private student debt is a huge millstone around the necks of students everywhere.


http://crooksandliars.com/2014/08/elizabeth-warren-grills-banker-over-cruel
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Senator Elizabeth Warren left one banker stammering for an answer during a hearing on student loans. (Original Post) UCmeNdc Aug 2014 OP
MORE onecaliberal Aug 2014 #1
Yes, Sen. Warren! postulater Aug 2014 #2
What is most impressive about SheilaT Aug 2014 #3
Soooo..... one way to discharge that massive student loan is to drop dead? hedgehog Aug 2014 #4
As long as you drop dead on a case by case basis apparently. Dragonfli Aug 2014 #5
Good point! hedgehog Aug 2014 #6
That's why she'll be our next President! Garthem Aug 2014 #7
repeal the whole thing quadrature Aug 2014 #8
Love her! NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #9
She won't let him do his tap dance, will she? BuelahWitch Aug 2014 #10
a no tap dancing zone UCmeNdc Aug 2014 #12
A bank exec named Dick Hunt? demwing Aug 2014 #11
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
3. What is most impressive about
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 03:08 PM
Aug 2014

Senator Warren is that she NEVER lets that guy get away with obfuscation and weaseling out of answering her question. Time after time she interrupts him as he tries to say platitudes about how wonderful the banks are and she goes back and asks her question again. And again. And again.

Wow.

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
4. Soooo..... one way to discharge that massive student loan is to drop dead?
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 04:20 PM
Aug 2014

Wow, bankers really do have my best interests at heart!

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
5. As long as you drop dead on a case by case basis apparently.
Fri Aug 1, 2014, 06:33 PM
Aug 2014

In other words, it could happen, just like winning the lottery.

BuelahWitch

(9,083 posts)
10. She won't let him do his tap dance, will she?
Sun Aug 3, 2014, 01:10 AM
Aug 2014
Best of all, she's so polite, but she is very firm.
Damn, I wish we could clone her!
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