Betsy DeVos Tells Us What A Spiteful Dick She Is, In Her Own Words!

[muriel_volestrangler]

Yesterday, we got a very special glimpse into just what a completely spiteful asshole DeVos is. In a court filing, the Department of Education submitted a copy of a May 4, 2017, document in which DeVos grudgingly signed off on debt relief for some 16,000 students whose applications had already been approved under Obama's Department of Ed, but which hadn't yet been processed by the time Donald Trump took office. Politico education reporter Michael Stratford found this charming detail: To show her disgust at the fraud victims getting help, DeVos signed off on the loan discharges, but added "with extreme displeasure" under her signature.



...
But at least those students finally got all their debts paid off, even if DeVos went out of her way to be officially pissy, right? Aw, you are an eternal optimist, Dok Zoom! The Associated Press reported in September of last year that an analysis of those 16,000 applications showed that only about a thousand students got their loans paid in full. The rest got some partial forgiveness of their loans, but were left with substantial debt, and isn't that a surprise?

Partial forgiveness awards have covered on average about 30 percent of a student's outstanding loan, with the median loan of roughly $11,500 reduced to about $7,800, according to the data. The department computes the amount erased by comparing their income to peers in similar programs.

Under the Obama administration, the AP pointed out, "tens of thousands" of fraud victims received full erasure of their debts, although when DeVos took over, there was still a big backlog of applications.

Why, yes, it DOES get worse: Despite the court rulings, DeVos's Education Department has continued to drag its feet. Between June and December of 2018, CNN reported in March, the department didn't approve a single application for loan forgiveness. In April, the New York Times reported that 22,000 previously approved loan forgiveness applications were still being held up as Devos's functionaries dragged out the case in court. Yes, the case that had been decided in October 2018.
...

[Advocates] say the department has referred borrowers to the Treasury Department to have their tax refunds garnished to offset debts that have piled up while their claim is pending.

https://www.wonkette.com/betsy-devos-really-hated-forgiving-loans-for-victims-of-grifty-for-profit-colleges

Reminder: DeVos is rich beyond Trump's wildest dreams, having inherited ill-gotten gains from the Amway pyramid scam, rather than doing any useful thing (or even inheriting from someone who did a useful thing). She literally owns multiple yachts. But she fights tooth and nail to stop people who were scammed from being forgiven debts they would probably have hanging over them for life.

[Ohiogal]

1. The extreme displeasure

is all ours, Betsy, you sanctimonious shell of a human being and all-around POS.

[bitterross]

37. +1,000,000 /nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. gov't for the rich, so they can buy more gov't

GOPers have their golden calf in place, even if he's a mad cow, and continue to consolidate their power grab. This is the culmination of decades of work to grow a gang of oligarchs while suppressing the vote of anyone not a part of either the power structure or the cult.

[dlk]

3. DeVos Never Ceases Reminding Everyone of Her Extreme Entitlement & Pettiness

Stunts like this remind us of her ignorance of her duties and responsibilities as Secretary of Education. She also reminds us that in her case, obscene amounts of money can’t buy professionalism or class. What a loser!

[smirkymonkey]

5. +1000

This is her "let them eat cake" moment. The woman has no empathy or concern for anyone who is not a member of her privileged, wealthy, "christian" elite circle. She is a disgrace to her position and to humanity. Another one I would love to see behind bars.

[saidsimplesimon]

26. I wish I had said what you said....

I have this contrarian streak in my genes.

[dlk]

32. Feel Free to Borrow My Words Any Time

We’re all in this together.

[calimary]

35. Totally! She's so smug.

Remember when she first got the job and was talking about visiting a bunch of charter schools. And a reporter asked her - shouldn’t she visit some public schools. Her haughty response was a smiling “maybe I should!”

I was stunned. WTF do you mean ”maybe I should”? You’re the American PUBLIC’S fucking Education Secretary. This job makes you a PUBLIC SERVANT. For Pete’s sake, shouldn’t you be visiting public schools maybe FIRST?

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. well, she is extreme in the amount of displeasure she gives!

[Blue_Tires]

6. The cruelty is the entire point of their existence

never forget...

[lagomorph777]

8. Cruella DeVos, there's a special place in Hell waiting for you.

The Devil awaits you with extreme pleasure.

[iamateacher]

10. My thoughts exactly

[Pepsidog]

9. Scum bag creep. Following in her families footsteps defrauding people.

[Takket]

11. DeVos is pure unmitigated evil.

I honestly think she is the kind of person that would smother a child in their sleep. She is a monster.

[gopiscrap]

12. what a self entitled fucking piece of shit

and her asshole brother isn't any better. You know they made their fortunes by scamming people!

[MadLinguist]

13. It has got to the case that DeVos owns a hedge fund that is fed from servicing student debt

I really would like for her and her whole criminal family to be investigated. Her shyte is so stanque!

[not fooled]

18. She owns

or part owns a student loan servicing company, Great Lakes.

[MadLinguist]

22. Could you post anything evidencing that?

Since Great Lakes is one of the major 3 or 4 student loan servicing companies, and those companies are servicing loans from the federal government, for the Secretary of Education to actually openly own such a company would be a really blatant conflict of interest. I was suggesting something far less direct, but if there is credible information pointing to direct control, it needs to be broadcast far and wide!

She had to back off an attempt to have a single debt service organization, which she tried to do in the summer of 2017. Ever since then, I have kept my eye out for any news about her financial holdings. She is a venomous snake.

[not fooled]

29. Report linked here

[link:https://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/01/13207/betsy-devos-ethics-report-reveals-ties-student-debt-collection-firm|]

[MadLinguist]

31. Well hell, the CoI is actually blatant as hell

And according to this Center For American Progress report, there's much more that's covert:

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecondary/news/2017/01/27/297572/inside-the-financial-holdings-of-billionaire-betsy-devos/

And it looks like she has not divested a dime, though she moved some money around, according to her underspecified divestment submission to the governmental ethics dept (surprised she bothered)

There's no bottom to the swamp these creatures swim in.

Thanks, NotFooled. I wonder whether DeVos is too far down the totem pole to pursue for congressional investigation. I want Warren and Harris to grill her to a cinder

[madaboutharry]

14. She has the world view that poverty, or just struggling financially

is evidence of moral failure. There are people who truly believe that wealth is evidence of God's grace and approval. It is sick, but they think this way.

[Raster]

16. Cruela DeVos has NEVER worked a day in her sorry-assed life.

[bdamomma]

39. in history

didn't us peons ever seek justice on these people who feel that they are entitled to swindle us. I always thought those who have everything through the expense of others get repaid (karma).

[madaboutharry]

41. It could be that the Karma they suffer is not the Karma we see.

The karma waiting for Betsy Devos may be waiting in the form of reincarnation as a poor homeless woman with no shoes living with leprosy in a conflict zone in a far away land.

Her Karma may come in the form of the human suffering that she scoffs at in this life.

[MarcA]

45. They get their karma when they are treated like

the truly useless eaters and breathers they are.

[Blue Owl]

15. She has sickened me

[yaesu]

17. she is a cruel rich piece of shit. nt

[oasis]

19. I got mine! Screw you peons.

[SWBTATTReg]

20. I'll never support Amway (never did) ever...now that I know this is where she got her wealth...

from, a pyramid scheme that basically made money for a very few people, and cost others tons of money to pay to play basically (folks who were trying to make a life/business for themselves, scammed).

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. Well, she got it from 2 sources; she married into the DeVos Amway fortune

but her father Edgar Prince owned a regular manufacturing company, Prince Corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Prince

He founded the Family Research Council, designated as an anti-LGBT hate group by the SPLC; and Betsy's brother is the infamous mercenary Erik Prince of Blackwater/Xe/Academi.

[SWBTATTReg]

28. Thanks. More reason to hate and/or despise this family of misfits. NT

[saidsimplesimon]

21. A blast from the past.

I heard the DeVos Amway pitch in the 70's. The pyramid promised "riches beyond my dreams". I settled for a modest retirement income, free of grifters (is grifters not a word, or am I misspelling?).

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Grifters is in the better class of dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary dates its written use back to 1915. I'm glad you kept your honour.

[BigmanPigman]

23. In my own words.."Fuck off you #@%&*$@!".

I am a teacher and we all HATE her! So does my district and state. I am so glad the Governor and teachers' unions are fighting Charter Schools being unregulated, etc.

[Demovictory9]

24. omg

[ck4829]

25. K&R

[Buckeyeblue]

33. It was wonderful to watch Jennifer Granholm beat Beatsy's husband for governor

First, she made him look like the fool that he is in a debate. Then she trounced him in the polls.

[Ilsa]

34. I hope we can give her a sendoff when trump is defeated.

Maybe postcards, letters. Anything to let her know what a bitch she is for Jesus.

[jmowreader]

36. Prison sentences are more appropriate

At this point I can’t think of a Trump Administration official who should ever walk the streets again. They’re all crooks and scum.

[bitterross]

38. Why is it okay to call her "dick?"

If the c-word and the b-word are offensive and should not be used, why is it okay to use a term associated with men?

[muriel_volestrangler]

40. Because it doesn't imply anything about men in general

The female-based terms have implications of women being inferior, and the b-word get used in the plural to refer to women in general. It's a matter of the historical uses, attitudes and positions of power or privilege (note that the c-word is normally used in Britain to insult individuals, male or female, for their individual actions, rather like 'dick', and so is not so controversial there, from a group point of view. It's still very rude and insulting, however).

[Duppers]

43. Scumbag or p.o.s. would suit me better too.

And I'm a female.

[LittleGirl]

42. F*ck you bitch

And your entitled attitude and go to hell. Jfc

[JustAnotherGen]

44. Her father was Ed Prince

The guy who invented the mirrored visor and her brother is Erik Prince.

Her wealth was enhanced by marry the Devos family.

Other than that - yep she's spiteful piece of shit.

[dchill]

46. "with extreme displeasure"

Now she knows how I feel about her!