I was surprised how religious Elizabeth Warren is... She quotes these dangerously socialist passages from the bible all of the time...
The full passage from the Kings James version of Matthew 25:40, which she quotes in part, reads: “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” The part she paraphrases later, from Matthew 25:35-36, reads: “For I was a hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.” Elizabeth Warren to introduce student loan refinancing legislation
Boston : MA : USA | Feb 21, 2014 at 10:53 PM PST
By Punditty 
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts wants borrowers to be able to refinance their student loans. (Image: By United States Senate, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts wrote on her blog Friday that in the coming months, she will be introducing legislation “to allow eligible borrowers with high interest student loans to refinance at new rates that are at least as low as those now being offered to new borrowers in the federal student loan program.”
Under current laws, refinancing of student loans is extremely rare but Warren wants to make that option more widely available both for the borrowers and the economy as a whole.
“The idea is pretty simple,” she explained. “When interest rates are low, homeowners can refinance their mortgages. Big corporations can swap more expensive debt for cheaper debt. Even state and local governments have refinanced their debts. Letting recent graduates refinance their student loans puts real money back in the pockets of middle class families.”
Since defeating Scott Brown [Unlink] in 2012 for the seat that Sen. Edward Kennedy held for nearly 47 years before dying in 2009, Warren has established herself as a true champion for the American middle class and working families across the nation. She has worked tirelessly for economic justice in many facets of American life, from advocating for a raise in the minimum wage to putting the US Postal Service in the loan business to seeking to relieve student loan debt burden in a variety of ways.
The interest rate on most of the more than $1 trillion in student loan debt exceeds 6 percent, three times what it costs the federal government to borrow, according to a 2013 column in Time.
With the cost of college continuing to rise, there is absolutely no sound economic reason to deny graduates fair interest rates on their loans – especially when high-interest loans yield the government huge profits.
In early February, in response to a Government Accountability Office report, Warren voiced her dismay.
‘‘We cannot bury our heads in the sand and pretend the profits don’t exist, or use accounting tricks to make them disappear,’’ Warren said in a Feb. 1 Associated Press article. ‘‘It’s time to end the practice of profiting from young people who are trying to get an education and refinance existing loans.”
On her blog, Warren wrote that “(t)ying students to a lifetime of financial servitude as a condition of getting an education … doesn't reflect our values.”
Warren is asking people who support her plan for to allow refinancing of student loans to sign up through her website, saying she will need “the help of tens of thousands of people all across the country to make the case for why this is so important.”
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