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Around 20.5% of student loan borrowers have a payment that's past due by 90 days or more, and around 5.3 million defaulted borrowers will get a notice from the Treasury Department that their wages could be garnished. https://trib.al/tIqrbUe

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-- Fortune (@fortune.com) Jul 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM

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No MAGAT ever matriculated elementary school.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-06 04:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

So this criminal is garnishing wages?

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-06 04:37 PM | Reply

Tax evading Trump garnishes wages?

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-06 04:47 PM | Reply

Deadbeat Trump garnishes wages?

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-06 04:48 PM | Reply

This is part of the merciless transfer of wealth from the bottom to the top, all engineered by the GOP. The Trumpf junta will pauperize millions of Americans before the 2026 mid-term elections. Sadly, many Republicans who will have lost their medical coverage on top of this wage garnishment will most likely continue to vote GOP. There seems to be a permanent 43% calcified base of the Christian 'Fedayeen Saddam' (FS) in the cult.

Good luck recent graduates.

Link:

drudge.com

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-06 04:57 PM | Reply

BILLIONAIRES HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXIST

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-06 05:18 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Billionaires are cursed with greed, gluttony and pride.

And those are the good ones.

A lot of them are also cursed with envy and wrath.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-06 05:32 PM | Reply

#6: And dauphin Barron Trumpf pocketed $40m in crypto-currency scams while his NYU classmates will be hounded mercilessly for their loans after graduation.

https://media.craiyon.com/2025-04-06/OIkm1nKbT-enYDh7jLrV5w.webp

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-06 05:36 PM | Reply

Do you suppose those garnished waqes are going into fat Donnie's crypto account?

#9 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-07-06 06:41 PM | Reply

I didn't experience the depression of WW-II, but watched a lot of black & whites of both of those events as a kid in the early '50s. The younger generations have no idea of what is coming.

#10 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-07-06 06:44 PM | Reply

We already had this discussion. This is hitting the black community (especially black women) hard because they, on average, never repay their loans. It is doubly-hard as it is coming at a time of mass layoffs of the DEI industry. Well, a dose of reality can be a bitter pill to swallow.

#11 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-06 07:58 PM | Reply

We already had this discussion. This is hitting the black community (especially black women) hard because they, on average, never repay their loans. It is doubly-hard as it is coming at a time of mass layoffs of the DEI industry. Well, a dose of reality can be a bitter pill to swallow.

#11 | Posted by ScottS

hmmm...possibly true. but your word is worth nothing, so we'd all appreciate a link to a reputable source for your claims.

I don't think you're lying, necessarily, I just don't trust you as far as I can throw a fat POS conservative qtard.

thanks :)

#12 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-07-06 08:06 PM | Reply

"so we'd all appreciate a link to a reputable source for your claims.
#12 | Posted by billy_boy"

Already provided -------. I already have enough annoyance with lamplighter constantly asking for links, I have no desire to start supplying them for his dopey brother now too.

#13 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-06 08:24 PM | Reply

Already provided -------. I already have enough annoyance with lamplighter constantly asking for links, I have no desire to start supplying them for his dopey brother now too.

#13 | Posted by ScottS

okeedokey sits to pee :)

so, you've got nothing.

just your imagination.

and conservative talking points.

lol :)

#14 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-07-06 08:32 PM | Reply

"okeedokey sits to pee :)
#14 | Posted by billy_boy"

You have no need to narrate your actions while posting - this is not year 2000 ICR.

#15 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-06 08:53 PM | Reply

#13 I have come to the conclusion Gaslighter can't use the Internet.

My guess is the reason that alias is here, is because this website is about all the complexity that alias can handle.

#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-07-06 08:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

16 | POSTED BY IAMRUNT

Says the mongoloid who can't figure out that Los Angeles is in California.

#17 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-06 09:02 PM | Reply

"#16 | Posted by oneironaut"

Based on the writing style, Bill Boy seems to be an alt account for Lamplighter. Same no substance posting, same goofy line spacing, same goof 'link' requests. I guess I should ignore that account too.

#18 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-06 11:25 PM | Reply

Making the deadbeats pay what they owe

#19 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-07-07 05:48 AM | Reply

Yeah. The government needs to forgive all loans that have had at least their original loan amount repaid.

The government caused these problems. They caused the loans to be predatory, they caused them to be so high by artificially driving up college tuition, and they have made these loans to be the worst possible burden by making it one of the only debts that can't be discharged in bankruptcy.

Government caused it, they are the only ones that can implement the remedy.

#20 | Posted by Imshakinitboss at 2025-07-07 02:23 PM | Reply

Each and every one signed a legal fiscal contract, just as one does to purchase a vehicle, or home mortgage. They have the responsibility to pay, have not, and now garnishment. Ii remember when we were in Iowa, one of my wife's store employees had his wages garnished for not paying a debt - how it works folks, and surprised if any here are ignorant of the fact.

#21 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-07-07 02:57 PM | Reply

"The government caused these problems.
#20 | Posted by Imshakinitboss"

The government didn't cause the problem - they just enabled stupid people to make stupid choices and now we have the entirely predictable result. The core issue is college costs being too high (which the colleges have not yet addressed) and their ROI due to teaching watered down classes is too low (which the colleges have not addressed yet). The 'fix' is 2-stage: first the government makes the current crop of stupid grads pay for their schooling and it serves as an example to the next crop of future college students. Enrollment falls (which we are seeing) and colleges will be forced to reduce costs and increase quality to entice the students back. It is a problem 30-40 years in the making and will take a decade to solve. A big part will be getting rid of the 90% liberal professors in most departments and replacing them with someone with actual practical experience and critical thinking skills.

#22 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-07-07 08:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

@#22 ... The government didn't cause the problem - they just enabled stupid people to make stupid choices and now we have the entirely predictable result. ...

So, a bait 'n' switch by the government?

#23 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 08:09 PM | Reply

Pay your bills and pay your loans. It's not hard.

#24 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-07-07 09:01 PM | Reply

It's about time, so long as they keep it minimal.

"...they caused them to be so high by artificially driving up college tuition,..."

Actually, the tuition is only a small part of it. The bigger part is the amount of people who don't pay back their loans. To make up those shortfalls, the loaners have to increase interest rates. If you separate the total size of loans in aggregate and the interest paid on those loans, you will easily see that the problem isn't the loan premium. I'm not saying tuition isn't a problem, it's just only a small impact on the overall loan paybacks.

And saying a loan is predatory when the ENTIRE chain of events leading up to signing is completely and very clearly optional is also wrong. While the government didn't help things at all, they didn't force anyone to take a loan, choose a major that is meaningless and has no ROI, or misrepresent the loans in any way. In fact, it is the institutions themselves who have promoted college as a mandatory requirement.

#25 | Posted by humtake at 2025-07-08 12:42 PM | Reply

choose a major that is meaningless

#25 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

Identify a college major, any major, and I'll explain you you the meaning.

You're a barbarian. How much does that pay?

#26 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 12:58 PM | Reply

college as a mandatory requirement.

#25 | POSTED BY HUMTAKE

Not all of us want to be factory workers.

And we sure as ---- don't want to have to work for people like you.

#27 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-08 01:00 PM | Reply

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