Hoorahs and adulation have been heaped on Elizabeth Warren for proposing to reduce the student loan rate to 0.75%, the rate charged by the Federal Reserve for very short term loans to banks.
While the left-blogosphere, progressive movement, and low-information political consumers have been cheering, we repeatedly have exposed that proposal as economic folly and political demagoguery:
You remember Upworthy, the epitome of low-information in support of Obama and progressives, Upworthy — or, How we are losing the internet to lowest of low information young liberals.
They have maps which demonstrate The high cost of low information voters.
I need to stop checking in there, because they have stuff like this:
How...
My post yesterday, Elizabeth Warren finds way to inflate Higher Ed bubble even more, has received a fair amount of attention.
The Boston Globe featured the post in its coverage of the debate over Warren’s proposal,
Easy access to student loans for people who have little prospect of repayment helped feed the Higher Ed bubble, much as easy access to mortgages for people who had little prospect of repayment helped feed the housing bubble. It made good politics but really bad economics.
Easy student loans have allowed higher...
On April 27, 2012, The Boston Herald broke the story online that in the 1990s, soon after she joined Harvard Law School, Harvard touted Elizabeth Warren as a Native American.
Warren told The Herald that day:
“I am very proud of my Native American heritage, thank you”
The Herald ran the story in the...
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
As noted at the Wiki, the progressive movement has had a twinkle in its eye for an Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign since before she was elected to the Senate, Elizabeth Warren for President in 2016 movement.
Now it’s gaining steam, via The...
Milton CVS robbed of painkillers, amphetamines:
Police are looking for the man who robbed the CVS on Bassett Street Saturday afternoon.
A man carrying what was described as a silver folding knife robbed the store of about 1,200 Percocet pills and 500 amphetamines at about 4 p.m., according to police radio broadcasts.
The man was seen getting into an older model silver car with an Elizabeth Warren sticker on the back right bumper, according to police transmissions. The driver, described as a woman, drove toward Granite Avenue.
The robber was described as a clean-shaven white man in his mid-30s, with a tattoo on at least one of his arms, wearing a gray T-shirt with the words whiskey and rye on it with a dark long sleeve shirt underneath. Police broadcasts also described him as wearing a black bandana or T-shirt on his head that did not cover his face, blue jeans and black shoes. He was carrying a purse-like black bag with a white cross and a red circle on it.
From the comments:
WAJ after-thought: Do we get a part of the loot since he’s bringing those stolen goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for? And does CVS now get to keep a bigger hunk of what it makes because it was not protected from marauding bands by police the rest of us paid for? Inquiring minds want to know.
Things are never simple with Elizabeth Warren.
Warren made headlines the other day when she claimed her brother lived on his social security of only $13,200 in order to score a political point. Considering Warren’s fabulous wealth, the obvious question was why she wasn’t helping him.
Warren insists that she told the truth about her...
Elizabeth Warren has gained notoriety recently for complaining that the minimum wage would be $22 per hour if it kept up with worker productivity gains over the past several decades.
Warren’s analysis was fundamentally flawed because it did not me...
The mainstream media, Democrats and progressive writers have been in full denial about the significance of Elizabeth Warren’s false claim for employment purposes – and only for employment purposes — to be Native American.
Yes, it was about making a claim for which...
There is plenty to criticize about Elizabeth Warren’s made-for-YouTube theatrics in the Senate Banking Committee.
Warren has some good goals shared on both sides of the aisle, such as addressing “too big to fail” and “too big to prosecute,” but unfortunately she goes about it the wrong way by belittling witnesses with questions properly...
Fantasy, via an author in the final issue of The Boston Phoenix:
Elizabeth Warren was the only senator on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, aside from the chair and ranking minority, to show up at last Thursday’s hearing on indexing the minimum wage to inflation. This was unfortunate for the two...
It’s not like you didn’t see this coming. Those inane and made-for-YouTube moments, lacking in substance and confusing the gullible media, are the pre-publicity.
Anyone familiar with Elizabeth Warren’s history knows that she knows how to turn the “rigged” schtick into a buck. (Off topic, there’s this website I stumbled upon called ...
True to form, Elizabeth Warren has proved adept at grabbing a headline for a talking point made at a Senate hearing, and the media is swooning without actually examining the substance.
The talking point is that if the minimum wage kept pace with the increase in worker productivity since the 1960s, it would...
The primary goal of ElizabethWarrenWiki.org was to serve as a resource for people who don’t have the time to search dozens of websites and blogs.
So when I stumbled on this at HuffPo the other day, it was one of those moments.
The accusation was about Republicans lying about Elizabeth Warren:
The response:
A secondary...
