HRC tweet flippantly "addresses" student load debt.

[TalkingDog]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/631538115514007553

HRC Tweet: How does your student loan debt make you feel? Tell us in 3 emojis or less.


Hint HRC, a lot of people who are still paying off student loans are in their 30's 40's 50's and beyond. (and as noted in the locked version) a lot of Millennials can't even afford to go to college. Instead of a flippant one off, how about you ask a substantial adult question on the subject and maybe we all can have an grown up conversation?

[PatrickforO]

1. Like maybe, "If we value our children and want to keep our economy strong, then

why are we not making college MUCH more affordable?"

Something like that?

[arcane1]

8. Exactly n/t

[SonderWoman]

2. Hint: people in their 30s, 40s, and 50s also know how to use emoji's.

Emoji's don't discriminate.

[PowerToThePeople]

3. PTTP response to tweet

[Ed Suspicious]

5. +1

[azmom]

21. My response as well.

[ibegurpard]

4. meh Twitter has its audience

I don't view this as flippant. It's just the nature of the medium. I hate Twitter.

[whatchamacallit]

6. What's the point of that request?

Weird.

[Le Taz Hot]

33. Because Bernie is attracting the millenials

by the thousands and some highly-paid advisor told her she must get on social media and be hip, be with it, be in the now and in the know. Once again, re-acting and not leading. And on it goes.

[whatchamacallit]

35. I kinda figured it was something like that

Hillary -> https://m.

[azurnoir]

7. why doesn't she just address the issue?

eta wasn't during the mid to late 1990's that the 'fangs' were put into student loan collection laws?

[LannyDeVaney]

10. She did ...

I follow her on Twitter and she followed up these requests by poking fun at it "backfiring" then included a link to her policy proposals.

This link:

Edit: Previous link was forward from twitter. Here is a direct link
http://hrc.io/college

[azurnoir]

12. can't access your link

[rhett o rick]

25. There was a lot of verbage about how important a college education is, but little in specifics.

Here is her bottom line:

1. "Under the New College Compact, no student should have to borrow to pay tuition at a public college."
"No student should have to borrow" Of course not. I am glad you understand that. But what is your plan to make that happen?

2. "Schools will have to control their costs and show more accountability to their students."
How do you propose to make them control costs? And showing accountability to their students is absurd.

3. "States will have to meet their obligation to invest in higher education."
Or what? Saying that states "will have to" means nothing. It is not a plan.

4. "The federal government will increase its investment in education," More specifics please. How will the federal government increase its investment in education and how will that help students?
" and (the government) won’t profit off student loans." NO ONE SHOULD PROFIT OFF OF STUDENT LOANS.
"And millions with student debt will be able to refinance it at lower rates." I assume you mean that you will support legislation to allow student debt to be refinanced?

There is no plan included in the above. Saying that states, schools, should do stuff, is't a plan.

[Blue_Adept]

11. She addressed it with her plan in the surrounding tweets

It's not like it was a one-off and nothign was said before or afterwards.

Context and all.

[azurnoir]

14. found a summary here bacsically a mish mash of others ideas not much new though

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/hillary-clinton-student-loans/401171/

[LannyDeVaney]

15. I realize at this point your mind is made up, but for giggles here is a direct link

http://hrc.io/college

[azurnoir]

23. good stuff but nothing that other Dems haven't already suggested

from your link the actually 'wheat'

under the New College Compact, no student should have to borrow to pay tuition at a public college.
Schools will have to control their costs and show more accountability to their students.

States will have to meet their obligation to invest in higher education.

The federal government will increase its investment in education, and won’t profit off student loans.
And millions with student debt will be able to refinance it at lower rates.

That’s my plan. It’s ambitious — and we should be ambitious. But it’s also achievable. And it would make a big difference in people’s lives.

[Blue_Adept]

9. And can you believe Obama went on Between Two Ferns?

How stupid of him was it to do something like that.

It's like these politicians don't know how to interact with real people.

Real people don't use emojis.

If this is what people are latching onto for their vitriol, it's hilarious. It's a throw anything at the wall kind of approach.

Better hope Bernie's team never uses an emoji on twitter or other social media.

[AtomicKitten]

13. .

[Mnemosyne]

16. What is an emoji? Showing my age. Thanks! nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. She made a ham handed attempt to be cool...

Most folks whose hearts are in the right place will forgive someone whose heart is in the right place.

[cyberswede]

18. She's not my choice, but I don't see this as flippant. I see it as a conversation starter.

I use Twitter a lot (I'm 49), and I'm still paying my student debt from grad school.

But I wouldn't be able to limit my choices to 3.

[Puglover]

20. Totally agree.

Bernie supporter here but this is a total stretch. It is the lingo of the medium she is using.

[Agschmid]

34. Yup.

[elfin]

19. Tsk tsk - should be "Fewer than 3 emojis"

She ( or her Twitter intern) fell into the "less/fewer"'grammar trap.

If items or things (such as emojis) can be counted, use "fewer."

I make grammar messes all the time, but would hope my candidate models better behavior.

[stevenleser]

22. Hillary actually has a plan to address it, so no, it's not flippant. nt

[Picking Dem]

26. Via emojis?

[stevenleser]

27. Yes, that's exactly what I mean.

And welcome to DU.

[Picking Dem]

32. Thanks. Nice photo of Malala

[Motown_Johnny]

28. Oh sure.

Please sum up the feelings you have about the crushing debt that is ruining your life with three frowny faces or less.


As if it is possible.

Flippant is being kind.


See why people think she is out of touch?

[giftedgirl77]

31. A vine would have to be 6 secs or less...

Just because you don't understand it doesn't make it flippant.

[Motown_Johnny]

38. I didn't say anything about a vine,

she asked for 3 emoji or less. That is why I said three frowny faces.



Does this come anywhere close to describing how a debt that is ruining your life actually makes you feel?


It wasn't flippant, it was asinine.


Just how low are our standards supposed to be for her? If JEB did this you, I and everyone else with common sense would be all over him for it. But because it is Hillary she gets a pass. The standards for her should be higher, not extremely lower.

[azmom]

36. Yeah, that did not sit well with my 20 year old.

[giftedgirl77]

29. Well if it was a vine it would have to be 6 secs or less.

I can describe a lot of things in 3 emojis or less.

🐂💩
👌
😱
😤
👏
?????????

[BuelahWitch]

30. .

[OKNancy]

37. It's a staff tweet, for what it's worth

Hillary will put an -H at the end of the ones she writes personally.

[Motown_Johnny]

39. It is her staff, and it sucks (again).

Remember that it took over a week to come up with the "I didn't want to carry two phones" excuse for the private email server? Over A Week for that nonsense.

She still doesn't have a stance on TPP. Well actually, she seems to have three. Shouldn't her staff figure out where she needs to be on this so she can look like she isn't a political weather vane?

When asked about the Keystone XL pipeline she responds that she won't answer that question until she is President. Just WTF was that?

Now someone in her staff asks people to sum up their feelings about the debt that is ruining their life with 3 frowny faces or less?

She is a horrible candidate. If she wasn't, she would hire staff that isn't horrible.