{"id":36657,"date":"2013-06-10T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T10:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36657"},"modified":"2013-06-10T06:09:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:09:12","slug":"36657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36657","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re From The Government And We&#8217;re Here To Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Student loan fraud has nearly doubled since 2009. Something about 2009 sounds familiar. What happened in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/06\/05\/student-loan-fraud-growing-education-dept_n_3391372.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003\">2009<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, that was the last year private lenders made student loans. After 2009, the federal government took it over as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/business\/networth\/article\/Feds-take-over-student-loan-program-from-banks-3193888.php\">Obamacare<\/a>, so the interest paid by students would offset health care costs for poor people.<\/p>\n<p>Either this is a government-run program that&#8217;s twice as corrupt as a private-run program, or half as competent. Who could have seen that coming?<\/p>\n<p>joe doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who could have seen it coming?<\/p>\n<p>Less than 47% of the people, unfortunately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Student loan fraud has nearly doubled since 2009. Something about 2009 sounds familiar. What happened in 2009? Oh yeah, that was the last year private lenders made student loans. After 2009, the federal government took it over as part of Obamacare, so the interest paid by students would offset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,69,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-socialism","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36667,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657\/revisions\/36667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}