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marmar

(77,066 posts)
Thu May 3, 2012, 08:07 PM May 2012

Dumb as a Foxx







Ultra-conservative North Carolina Republican congresswoman Virginia Foxx, chair of the Higher Education Subcommittee in the House, made news in the past week when she said that she has "very little tolerance" for people who take out student loans. "There's no reason for that. We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that ... You don't sit on your butt and have it dumped in your lap."


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Dumb as a Foxx (Original Post) marmar May 2012 OP
I hope she is up for re-election this year Politicalboi May 2012 #1
Your subject line could have been simply 'Dumb' and I might have guessed it was her. onehandle May 2012 #2
All of them sending an esoteric message to orpupilofnature57 May 2012 #3
It's a LOAN, you have to repay it obamanut2012 May 2012 #4
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
1. I hope she is up for re-election this year
Thu May 3, 2012, 08:13 PM
May 2012

I don't live in NC, but it sure would be nice to see her go.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
2. Your subject line could have been simply 'Dumb' and I might have guessed it was her.
Thu May 3, 2012, 08:15 PM
May 2012

There are few in Congress that dumb.

 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
3. All of them sending an esoteric message to
Thu May 3, 2012, 08:15 PM
May 2012

the 1% , we will serve you ,While selling us ( the 99% ) wedge issues ,personal greed .and fear, with no intentions of broaching a solution .

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