You mean the guy who just had all charges against him dropped?

under Obama during his second term (when he had a little more political capital and could risk the inevitable lobbying backlash from the diploma mill industry). It all got rolled back under Trump. That's how/why the "University" of Phoenix closed for a while and then reopened.

I suspect in Biden's second term he'll do the same thing, but right now it would be too risky to spend that political capital, just like it was under Obama.

then often the loan terms are such that after X years of payments the loans are forgiven. This is how/why Biden's forgiven around $142 billion in loans. The terms of the loans were met and the loan officers were (illegally) still collecting. No punishment or requirement to pay back the ill gotten gains of course, let's not get too crazy...

But at these diploma mills the loans are super shady, so I doubt it applies unless the CFPB gets involved like they did here.

Read that part again. It's not that the school costs that much, it's that the finance charges on these "loans" could pile up over time. Just like any loan which isn't paid off and interest continues to accrue.

Why do you think so many people owe more on their student/medical loan than the original value of the loan? They didn't pay enough of it off fast enough so the interest kept adding to their total loan cost.

An Eisenberg would be involved in illegal monetary dealings. Wonder if he is good friends with this guy.

Stereotypes exist for a reason.

They don’t care what happens as long as the suits get paid.

Which divisions of the Palestinian military are you talking about? Army? Navy? Air force?

Well I mean, it' transparent in that it's negotiated out in the open, the items in the bill are that it is in the bill. So while the process is opaque in ways since the negotiations are sorta in the backrooms but the outcomes are right out in front. The fact that bills are long and can be difficult to read, well, those are separate questions (Thinking of the Daily Show bit about Herman Cain "all treaties must fit on the back of a cereal box!") that happens with or without riders and earmarks.

It's not a matter of importance, it's a matter of practicality. If I am a legislator and I have two things I want to get passed I might have a very, very slim chance of getting them both passed separately but I might have an excellent chance of passing one bill with both of them. Again, this is not a new issue, this exists in every legislative body.

Ahhhhh, now we're *actually* to the issue at hand, no more pussyfooting around what is actually getting argued here.

I would ask you, what party is it, what is the "proper" process in this case since the process for budgets in the US is functionally "whatever Congress votes for or says it is"

Again, that is not the issue of riders or earmarks, it is a symptom of political gridlock. We need to understand the issues if we are going to help get better outcomes.

Here in the USA, the idea of the government actually doing anything for citizens is viewed by Republicans as welfare and something bad. Investing in citizens is against what they believe in, while giving money away to the wealthy and international corporations that ship jobs out of the USA to other countries is perfectly worthy of the government giving them tax breaks.

and use peer pressure to force complience to unpaid overtime that is compulsory in all but name only.

Clearly this is a great step forward for humanity.

It sure is. Eventually we won't have to put pilot's lives at risk. Just send a machine.

the border crisis,

You mean this border "crisis"?

crumbling infrastructure,

Republicans, almost to a one, voted against a wide-ranging infrastructure bill, then bragged about all the money their districts were getting for infrastructure.

and general loss of civil rights

Yes, Republicans have been working hard to take away people's civil rights. From taking away one's right to control their own body to bannning books so you can't read them, to trying to prevent entire groups from voting, they are working as hard as they can to impose an iron grip on people's lives and destroy our freedoms.

Sure, someone in Israel knew, but it wasn't the people deciding that day.

> "In other words, when some one called in the strike someone on the other end of the line should have been looking at a map of aid workers or some similar resource and called off the strike based on these people's location."

You're supposing quite a lot here. "called in the strike" and "other end of the line" may not even be a thing in the situation over in Israel - you're making up that scenario because you don't really know. From what I've heard, they are using AI to determine where to strike and they are given a 15 second window. Now all that is also hearsay from the internet, but the facts of the situation are not something we could even guess.

Yes, nobody is suggesting this wasn't a massive fuck-up for Israel, nobody is trying to debate that. But the fact remains, this is "fog of war", and nobody in a warzone is safe at all, not even for one minute.

And yes, people beating this dead horse are doing Hamas work for them. It happened, Israel needs to do better and be held accountable, but repeating it over and over just strengthens Hamas support. Guess what - some other shit is going to happen and you'll forget all about this one. It's a war, it's messy, and it didn't have to happen - that was Hamas choice to start all of this.

it doesn't appear to know if it's coming or going!

not like they haven't got a list of friendly Judges on tap 24/7