5 posts tagged hr 4170
By Denise Smith, Kasey Oliver, and Ryan Jacobi in ForgiveStudentLoanDocumentary.com
H.R.4170 Campaign - What every member should do to get involved in the H.R.4170 Campaign!
Pease register at the www.forgivestudentloandebt.com Website! Stay up to date on all the latest FSLD news and share your story and participate in the forums!
#1 Petitions!!!
Sign the following petitions created by Robert Applebaum, Esq., founder of forgivestudentloandebt.com, asking Rep. John Kline (MN), The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama to Support the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 (H.R.4170):
Please also sign the following petitions in support of H.R.4170 created by members of the student loan community:
#2
Weigh in at PopVox by clicking on “support” and send a message to your representative. (There is a character limit of around 1500 for your comments)
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/hr4170
#3
Go to OpenCongress and click the green “support” check mark, upper right side of page and send a message to your Representative and Senators—you also can print a copy for mailing.
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h4170/show
#4
Mail a letter to your Representative strongly urging them to co-sponsor and support this bill! Tell them why you support H.R.4170, what its passage would mean to you personally and how it would benefit the economy!
Find contact Information: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
#5
Call your Representative and strongly urge them to co-sponsor and support this bill!
Tell them why you support H.R.4170, what its passage would mean to you personally and how it would benefit the economy!
Find Your Representatives/Senators at http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
#6 If there is are open seats in your state, contact the candidates to ask them what their position is and encourage them to support H.R.4170.
Look here to locate them: http://www.politics1.com/states.htm
#7
Email your friends, family members and everyone you know!
Send them this petition link:
Ask them to sign. Tell them your story and explain how H.R.4170 will benefit not only borrowers but also our economy!
#8
If you are on twitter, tweet the following message to your followers:
#9
If you are on Facebook, copy & post the following message on your wall:
#10
If you are on other social networking sites please reach out there as well. The more we reach out, the more likely we are to hit our goal of 1 million signatures!
#11 Ready to take a really BIG step? Write to every last Representative in Congress. Set a daily goal and work down this list:
Does YOUR representative support Hansen Clarke’s Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 (H.R. 4170)???
http://www.change.org/petitions/rep-mike-mcintyre-support-the-student-loan-forgiveness-act-of-2012-hr-4170
Support H.R. 4170 - The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012
Greetings,
I just signed the following petition addressed to: Rep. John Kline, The U.S. Congress & President Obama.
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Support H.R. 4170 - The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012
Since 1980, average tuition for a 4-year college education has increased an astounding 827%.
Since 1999, average student loan debt has increased by a shameful 511%.
In 2010, total outstanding student loan debt exceeded total outstanding credit card debt in America for the first time ever.
In 2012, total outstanding student loan debt is expected to exceed $1 Trillion.
In short, student loan debt has become the latest financial crisis in America and, if we do absolutely nothing, the entire economy will eventually come crashing down again, just as it did when the housing bubble popped. Reasonable minds can disagree as to the solutions, they cannot, however, disagree on the existence of this ever-growing crisis, as well as the unsustainable course we’re on towards financial oblivion.
As a result of more than 30 years of treating higher education as an individual commodity, rather than a public good and an investment in our collective future, those buried under the weight of their student loan debt are not buying homes or cars, not starting businesses or families, and they’re not investing, inventing, innovating or otherwise engaged in any of the economically stimulative activities that we need all Americans to be engaged in if we’re ever to dig ourselves out of the giant hole created by the greed of those at the very top.
Now for the good news: there’s finally hope on the horizon!
Representative Hansen Clarke of Michigan has just introduced H.R. 4170, The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, in the House of Representatives - legislation designed to lend a helping hand to those struggling under massive amounts of student loan debt.
For a brief summary of H.R. 4170’s main provisions, please copy & paste this URL into your browser: http://tinyurl.com/7akydbk
To read the full version of the actual bill itself, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/6txure8
To read answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/8xh4csd
Student loan debt has an undeniable and significant suppressive effect on economic growth. The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 directly addresses this enormous boot on the neck of the middle class and represents a glimmer of hope for millions of Americans who, with each passing day, find that the American Dream is more and more out of reach.
Therefore, we, the undersigned, respectfully request that Congress bring H.R. 4170, The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, up for consideration and commit to holding a straight, up-or-down vote on it this year. Thereafter, we, the undersigned, respectfully request that President Obama sign this legislation into law.
By Robert Applebaum (Contact)
To be delivered to: Rep. John Kline (MN-2), The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama
Since 1980, average tuition for a 4-year college education has increased an astounding 827%.
Since 1999, average student loan debt has increased by a shameful 511%.
In 2010, total outstanding student loan debt exceeded total outstanding credit card debt in America for the first time ever.
In 2012, total outstanding student loan debt is expected to exceed $1 Trillion.
In short, student loan debt has become the latest financial crisis in America and, if we do absolutely nothing, the entire economy will eventually come crashing down again, just as it did when the housing bubble popped. Reasonable minds can disagree as to the solutions, they cannot, however, disagree on the existence of this ever-growing crisis, as well as the unsustainable course we’re on towards financial oblivion.
As a result of more than 30 years of treating higher education as an individual commodity, rather than a public good and an investment in our collective future, those buried under the weight of their student loan debt are not buying homes or cars, not starting businesses or families, and they’re not investing, inventing, innovating or otherwise engaged in any of the economically stimulative activities that we need all Americans to be engaged in if we’re ever to dig ourselves out of the giant hole created by the greed of those at the very top.
Now for the good news: there’s finally hope on the horizon!
Representative Hansen Clarke of Michigan has just introduced H.R. 4170, The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, in the House of Representatives - legislation designed to lend a helping hand to those struggling under massive amounts of student loan debt.
For a brief summary of H.R. 4170’s main provisions, please copy & paste this URL into your browser: http://tinyurl.com/7akydbk
To read the full version of the actual bill itself, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/6txure8
To read answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, please go here: http://tinyurl.com/8xh4csd
Student loan debt has an undeniable and significant suppressive effect on economic growth. The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012 directly addresses this enormous boot on the neck of the middle class and represents a glimmer of hope for millions of Americans who, with each passing day, find that the American Dream is more and more out of reach.
Therefore, we, the undersigned, respectfully request that Congress bring H.R. 4170, The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, up for consideration and commit to holding a straight, up-or-down vote on it this year. Thereafter, we, the undersigned, respectfully request that President Obama sign this legislation into law.
Total outstanding student loan debt in America is expected to exceed $1 TRILLION this year. Millions of hardworking, taxpaying, educated Americans are being crushed under the weight of the educational debts, while the economy continues to sputter. Support a REAL Economic Stimulus and Jobs Plan. Support The Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012
