{"id":192246,"date":"2009-04-24T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/24\/elections-have-consequences-part-iv\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T22:35:00","slug":"elections-have-consequences-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/04\/24\/elections-have-consequences-part-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections Have Consequences, Part IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has stated his intention to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/politicalintelligence\/2009\/04\/obama_says_hes_2.html\">shut down federal subsidies to private student loan lenders and go exclusively with direct federal loans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It should save $5 billion a year for the taxpayers and lower interest rates for students, so everyone wins&#8230;.Except, of course for the private lenders, who are basically parasites anyway, so it doesn&#8217;t bother me.<\/p>\n<p>I believe taht he can do most of this through executive order, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has stated his intention to shut down federal subsidies to private student loan lenders and go exclusively with direct federal loans. It should save $5 billion a year for the taxpayers and lower interest rates for students, so everyone wins&#8230;.Except, of course for the private lenders, who are basically parasites anyway, so it doesn&#8217;t &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,968,1004],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-education","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}