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Just like Obama, but you love him.Trump is a dickYou know, I remember back in the early to mid 80's when I was still just an E1 through E4, there were LOTS of places that wanted to loan money or sell things on credit specifically to military personnel, because they could get them to pay via allotment. And, many times, those places had finance charges that were damn near 50 percent of what you borrowed. Over the years, the military did various things to protect active duty members from these predatory lenders.
Today, on the news, it was said that Trump was going to scrap all those protections, and the predatory lenders would be free to exploit the military again.
Still think Trump supports the troops? This looks like he's selling them out to the money lenders.
The Trump administration reportedly wants to ditch a regulation protecting military personnel from financial predators
The Trump administration wants to get rid of a decade-old Military Lending Act designed to protect service members from predatory lenders and other financial hucksters looking to swindle US military personnel out of their hard-earned cash, according to internal documents obtained by both the New York Times and National Public Radio.
- The MLA was established in 2006 to protect active-duty service members and their spouses from predatory lending practices like exorbitant interest rates. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the act imposes "limitations on and requirements for certain types of consumer credit extended to active duty service members and their spouses, children, and certain other dependents."
- As the New York Times reported on August 10, interim Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief and dictator Mick Mulvaney, "intends to scrap the use of so-called supervisory examinations of lenders, arguing that such proactive oversight is not explicitly laid out in the legislation," a move that would effectively prevent the CFPB from enforcing the MLA.
- However, those supervisory exams have proven essential in "uncovering previous instances of wrongdoing and led to several of its biggest fines," according to the New York Times, which notes that in 2014, the CFPB "fined one of the largest payday lenders in the country, Ace Cash Express, $10 million after determining the company, based in Texas, steered low-income borrowers, including those in the military, into a succession of financially damaging high-interest loans."
- University of Utah law professor and former CFBP staffer Christopher Peterson said in an interview with NPR that "if the White House does this, it will be manipulating the Military Lending Act regulations at the behest of auto dealers and banks to try and make it easier to sell overpriced rip-off products to military service members."
- A Mulvaney spokesman told the New York Times that the rule change was part of a broader review of the agency's regulations, stating that while the CFPB's goal was "to protect service members…we also have to abide by the law."
He looks at soldiers as suckers. Same suckers he made a fortune on
Yep just like Obama.---------------------------- let the buyer beware BSailor .You know Clayton, I still am wondering how ANYONE could say that Trump supports the military. The only thing he really wants is to use them as a backdrop to make his b.s. sound "presidential" by speaking in front of the troops.
Or.............a large military parade that would honor him, but be a hassle for the troops that have to participate.
Nope, Trump doesn't support the military very well. He's taken away financial protections, and oh yeah, that Veteran's Choice program that Trump likes to say he started? It wasn't started by Trump, it was started by Obama after the debacle that happened in Phoenix VA.
This on the other hand, is simply serving military paychecks to greedy lenders who take advantage of military personnel.
I remember I got suckered in by one of those places once. Ended up paying more than twice what the stuff I got was worth.
Trump slogan......sucker born every minute
Sounds like a standard I can't hear you response.The asshole questioned the patriotism of the troops assembled at Fort Drum today.
His words:
"We are proudly giving our troops the biggest pay increase in a decade, and I know you don't want it because you're very patriotic. ... Does anybody not want it? Please raise your hand," Trump said.
When there wasn't much of a response from the crowd of soldiers, who belong to the Army's 10th Mountain Division (the most deployed division in the Army), Trump then said, "What's going on here? Are these real patriots? I don't know, general, I don't know."
What a dick.
Trump gives the military the biggest raise in a decade and the left says its screwing the military. That's how idiotic the left is.
Sounds like a standard I can't hear you response.The asshole questioned the patriotism of the troops assembled at Fort Drum today.
His words:
"We are proudly giving our troops the biggest pay increase in a decade, and I know you don't want it because you're very patriotic. ... Does anybody not want it? Please raise your hand," Trump said.
When there wasn't much of a response from the crowd of soldiers, who belong to the Army's 10th Mountain Division (the most deployed division in the Army), Trump then said, "What's going on here? Are these real patriots? I don't know, general, I don't know."
What a dick.
.this sounds like typical MSM fake crap
Yep just like Obama.---------------------------- let the buyer beware BSailor .You know Clayton, I still am wondering how ANYONE could say that Trump supports the military. The only thing he really wants is to use them as a backdrop to make his b.s. sound "presidential" by speaking in front of the troops.
Or.............a large military parade that would honor him, but be a hassle for the troops that have to participate.
Nope, Trump doesn't support the military very well. He's taken away financial protections, and oh yeah, that Veteran's Choice program that Trump likes to say he started? It wasn't started by Trump, it was started by Obama after the debacle that happened in Phoenix VA.
This on the other hand, is simply serving military paychecks to greedy lenders who take advantage of military personnel.
I remember I got suckered in by one of those places once. Ended up paying more than twice what the stuff I got was worth.
Trump slogan......sucker born every minute
--------------------- you lefties are funny , get used to President Trump who runs the show and YOU P.J..Petty is but one term to describe Trump. He driven by ego.
----------------------------- widdle kids are one thing but Adults that are Begging for a loan of money should read the Contract AMech and JLaw .I'm honestly neutral to this. I mean a fool and his money are soon departed.
EVERYONE should be protected from predatory lending. Why just the military?
“Trump screws the military.”
Well, he screws most everything else, so this is no surprise.
It'd help if you, and the OP, actually researched why this happened
The asshole questioned the patriotism of the troops assembled at Fort Drum today.
His words:
"We are proudly giving our troops the biggest pay increase in a decade, and I know you don't want it because you're very patriotic. ... Does anybody not want it? Please raise your hand," Trump said.
When there wasn't much of a response from the crowd of soldiers, who belong to the Army's 10th Mountain Division (the most deployed division in the Army), Trump then said, "What's going on here? Are these real patriots? I don't know, general, I don't know."
What a dick.
Trump gives the military the biggest raise in a decade and the left says its screwing the military. That's how idiotic the left is.
Trump did not give the military a raise. Nothing he did impacted their pay in any way. You will believe anything.