I'm impressed by you & U.S. Rep. (and medical doctor) Joe Heck (R-NV-3rd) stopping to assist in the recent Interstate car crash - and for supporting GOP nominee, Donald J. Trump, thereby keeping your word - and for introducing S.3352 - the Terrorism Survivors Student Loan Deferment Act. **HOWEVER** Respectfully, what about the rest of the students struggling under heavy college debt-due to illegal monopolies and inflated tuition as a result of tinkering by the government? My congressman, U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross (R-FL-15th) heeded by call, in my guest OpEd "A Polk Perspective: Fix our bankrupt policy on student debt," By Gordon Wayne Watts, Guest columnist, The Ledger, August 04, 2016 http://www.TheLedger.com/article/20160804/COLUMNISTS03/160809884/1382/edit?p=all&tc=pgall - and he did something http://DennisRoss.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398516 --Ross filed H.R.6191 -a bill "To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to include student loan repayers as members of targeted groups for purposes of the work opportunity credit and to provide for a credit against tax for student loan program startup costs." https://www.Congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/6191

 

Mr. Ross' bill  is NOT a lot, but it's more than what you did, and so Ross has earned my vote. But, what about you? *** I won't vote for you simply "because you're a Republican, like me." -- You have to earn our vote. If **you** and your rich cronies can file for bankruptcy, why not us college students? In fact, liberals are **right** in their claims that college was once free:

 

“Was college once free in United States, as Bernie Sanders says?,” PolitiFact, RATED “Mostly True” - By Amy Sherman on Tuesday, February 9th, 2016 at 4:00 p.m. http://www.PolitiFact.com/florida/statements/2016/feb/09/bernie-s/was-college-once-free-united-states-and-it-ove

 

And IS free in Germany: "The level of the fees [in the Hanseatic City State of Hamburg, Germany] was lowered to EUR375 and payment was only due after graduating, and only if graduates were earning a pre-tax annual salary in excess of EUR30,000 (US$41,000)."
"GERMANY: Hamburg to scrap tuition fees," by: Michael Gardner, UniversityWorldNews.com, 25 September 2011, Issue No:190
* http://www.UniversityWorldNews.com/article.php?story=20110923212949476
Cf: https://www.TimesHigherEducation.com/features/germanys-great-tuition-fees-u-turn/2011168.article
Cf:  http://www.PolitiFact.com/florida/statements/2016/feb/09/bernie-s/was-college-once-free-united-states-and-it-ove

 

 

If 'FREE' education is defensible, how much more is it to make modest reforms I've suggested? A debt-burdened and UNEDUCATED populace threatens our national security:

 

1) I'm voting for Donald J. Trump because he's SOOO much more qualified than DISHONEST HILLARY CLINTION (even tho he is VERY unclear on his higher ed policy)...

 

2) I'm voting for my good friend, Rep. Dennis A. Ross, because I gave my word that if he did "anything" to help college students, he'd get my vote. (His bill is VERY weak, but it's, technically, good, so I'll vote for him, thereby keeping my word.)

 

3) Since I have not given you as much notice ((I only started asking for your help back on Fri, 15 Apr 2016 - plenty of notice, but not nearly as much as for Mr. Ross: http://gordonwatts.com/email-to-Lawmakers-and-Press.html mirror: http://gordonWAYNEwatts.com/email-to-Lawmakers-and-Press.html )), all I'm asking from you is a public statement of some sort that the bills I've outlined in my guest OpEd are viable: http://gordonwatts.com/TheLedger-print-version-WATTS-GuestColumn-Thr04Aug2016.html viz: http://gordonWAYNEwatts.com/TheLedger-print-version-WATTS-GuestColumn-Thr04Aug2016.html

 

Make it 3-for-3 -- give me a reason to vote "for" you -- but know, realise, & understand: I vote the person, not the party, because I'm a person of honour and integrity.

 

It's your move. -- With kind regards, I Am, Sincerely,