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In Donald Trumps mind, theres no nobler thing a man can do than fleece suckers out of their money. Thats business. And thats why it came as no surprise that he appointed for-profit education advocate Betsy DeVos to head up the Education Department. Kids have to go to school, school is a service why isnt money changing hands?
Its also no surprise that when DeVos was looking for someone to head up the Departments Student Aid Enforcement Office the watchdogs who are supposed to protect education consumers from fraud she chose Julian Schmoke, a former official at DeVry University. If DeVry sounds familiar, you may remember it as the for-profit college that the Federal Trade Commission made pay out $100 million for defrauding students. As Consumerist puts it, In short, the Department of Education has now hired a guy who spent much of a career at a for-profit school busted for fraud
to head the department that helps determine which for-profit schools need to be busted for fraud.Fox, meet henhouse.
Just days after Schmokes appointment was announced, it was reported that the Department of Education will no longer work with the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to root out bad players in the student loan servicing arena
Betsy DeVos
recently notified the CFPB that her department is ending years of formal cooperation combating student loan fraud.
When rich people want to send their kids to college, they just write a check. The middle-class kids get some help from their parents and take out student loans for the rest. The poor see ads on TV for scam diploma mills like DeVry or Trump University and put themselves up to their eyeballs in debt, only to wind up with no job prospects.
http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/index/2017/10/17/fox-meet-henhouse
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)..."school," this is appalling.
It took me 16 years, but I had my student loan discharged and all the $$$ I had taken from me (by garnishing my tax refunds) refunded to me, because I was able to find a sympathetic bureaucrat at the federal level who knew I was a victim of the fraudulent "school."
Now, I'm guessing that would never happen.
I fucking hate these people.