Hey Everyone-
Welcome to all the new signers. The petition is closing in on 600,000 signatures. Please keep tweeting it, boosting it, and pasting the link to it everywhere! We are getting great media coverage right now, and more to come...but definitely keep telling news organizations to report on it!
TODAY WE ARE ASKING EVERYONE TO DO THIS SIMPLE THING:
Go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact, and say something like what is posted below. We'll be hitting Joe Biden tomorrow. Please stay tuned. These group actions REALLY DO WORK when we ALL DO THEM, folks.
-Alan
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Mr. President-
You have it in your power to cancel all federally owned student loans by executive order. You can do this without congressional approval, without congressional appropriation, without needing to raise any additional tax money to "pay for" the cancellation, and without adding anything to the national debt.
YOU NEED TO DO THIS BEFORE THE ELECTION.
According to your own people at the Department of Education 80% of all federal loan borrower- 44 million voters- were never going to be able to repay their loans- and this was before the coronavirus hit. This is a failed, big-government, nationally threatening lending system. It is vanishing into a mist of illegitimacy as we speak. It has to go away, for the good of the country.
You- as President- have a responsibility to stand up to big-government, DRAIN THE SWAMP, zero-out these loans, massively stimulate the economy, and come up with a better, cheaper, less vicious and predatory way to fund higher education in this country going forward.
Right now, these 44 million voters( most of whom are politically independent or republican) are strongly favoring Biden on this issue. He has said he will return bankruptcy protections to the loans, and that he will cancel loans. While his pledge is not very believable, it is enough to tip the scales for many if not most of these borrowers.
This is, by far, the best, easiest, cheapest, and most just way to stimulate the economy. You should have done this first, actually!
Please do the right thing before the election, Mr. President. I- and 44 million other voters- will be watching closely.
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