Saturday, January 25, 2020

Senator Warren could do with Section 124A.

"US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a 2020 presidential candidate, wants to cancel student loan debt for more than 95% of borrowers, and would entirely cancel student loan debt for more than 75% of Americans with student loan debt," wrote Zack Friedman. "Now, she says she would institute student loan forgiveness without Congress." Warren argues that under the Higher Education Act of 1965 she does not need approval of the Congress to forgive student loans worth $1.6 trillion. Strange a candidate of the Democratic Party proposes to spend $1.6 trillion to win her election when her party would not approve a paltry $5 billion to keep out illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. Warren was confronted by a man who had financed his daughter's education and wanted to know if he will get his money back. "My daughter is getting out of school. I've saved all my money. She doesn't have any student loans. Am I going to get my money back?" he asked. "Of course, not," Warren answered without hesitation. "So you are going to pay for people who didn't save any money and those of us who did the right thing get screwed?" the father pressed. Warren is accused of buying votes of debtors. In India, the ruling party thinks it has a right to distribute handouts to win elections with no accountability. No Indian will dare to question a politician like the American man questioned Sen Warren. He will be immediately arrested under the law of Sedition. "Sedition was made an offence under the Indian Penal Code of 1860 which was drafted by (British Whig politician) Thomas Macaulay," said lawyer and writer Suhrith Pathasarathy. "It was unquestionably a weapon in the hands of the colonial government." Macaulay thought Indians are uneducated idiots. "I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia," he said. Since the British were a superior race they could treat Indians ruthlessly for the crime of sedition. "There is no proposal to scrap the provision under the IPC dealing with the offence of sedition. There is a need to retain the provision to combat anti-national, secessionist and terrorist elements," Minister of State for Home Affairs Nityanand Rai. BJP won the general election in 2019 by making sure handouts reached their intended targets, wrote Prof Ila Patnaik. When politicians can do whatever they like people think that corruption is increasing. Today is Republic Day when politicians and their families, dressed in their fineries, will be seated on VIP seats while the armed forces and assorted citizens entertain them by marching past while paying homage. Seventy two years after so-called independence we are policed by a 149 year law. Happy Republic Day.

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