Screw the Kaepernick talk, have you even heard about Lebron's $41 million pledge to send 1,100 kids to college?

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7 years ago 08/31/2016 10:20pm EDT

re: 800 dude

I have been a Lebron fan since he was in high school. Probably one of the smartest basketball players ever even at a very young age.

Since most of you didn't know about this current pledge, you probably also didn't know that the sole purpose of "the announcement" was to raise 2.5 million dollars for the boys and girls clubs of America.

Some previous idiot said he doesn't like Lebron's basketball? Multiple mvp's, multiple championships, 2 good medals, records to numerous to mention. One of the most unselfish players ever.

You are missing the point about this pledge. It's not about the end result. It is about the journey to get there and those kids seeing that there is a better future than dealing drugs or joining gangs. Even if they don't go to college they will be better off than if Lebron didn't do this.

Lebron can't save the world, but he can make a difference in his small part of it.

7 years ago 08/31/2016 10:36pm EDT

re: jjjjjj

Obamacare has nothing to do with student loans

SAFRA was basically a budgeting gimmick, used to justify Obamacare. It was "reconciled" (to avoid 60 votes) with health care in early 2010. By ending federal subsidies for private loans, it essentially nationalized the market.

The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 (SAFRA; H.R. 3221) is a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives of the 111th United States Congress by Congressman George Miller that would expand federal Pell Grants to a maximum of $5,500 in 2010 and tie increases in Pell Grant maximum values to annual increases in the Consumer Price Index plus 1%. It would also end the practice of federally subsidized private loans, using all federal student loan funding for Direct Loans and potentially cutting the federal deficit by $87 billion over 10 years. On September 17, 2009, the House approved the bill by a 253-171 margin.[1]
On March 18, 2010, the text of this act was included as a rider on the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, signed into law on March 30, 2010 by President Obama[2] as an amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Of course, the US government is known for running businesses well, I can't think they will do as well as private loan companies did. More likely they will lose $87 billion over a decade instead of gaining that much.

7 years ago 08/31/2016 10:39pm EDT

re: jjjjjj

And university degrees bring very, very substantial bumps in lifetime earnings over high school degrees.

Only useful university degrees have this aspect. Useless ones are largely a drain. Most of the students on the margin fit the latter theme. It would be better (say) if they went to trade school or teaching college, rather than full-blown university for 4+ years of partying and a diploma that's unlikely to get much traction outside employment at agitprop NGOs.

7 years ago 09/01/2016 12:11am EDT

exthrower wrote:
I'm an ex liberal and I looked for discrimination to validate my beliefs...And I never found it...not once....

Did you live behind a computer the whole time?

7 years ago 09/01/2016 9:30am EDT

re: rojo

Why the need to say screw Kapernick in a comment about LeBron?

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