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byflyingfsck ( 986395 ) writes:
This loan shark business is a tax on the working class to aid the upper classes. Robbin Hood in reverse.
byRandom361 ( 6742804 ) writes:
It's even more screwed up than that. They structured student loans as non-dischargeable debt, while also mixing in a mixture of grants, affirmative action, parental income ceilings, and other crap. Then you have the people who lived off of Ramen soup, worked their way through undergraduate and grad school, put off their lives for education, etc. who are going to be legitimately pissed because the message this kind of policy sends the subsequent generations is to spend like drunken sailors and vote money at
bytfranzese ( 869766 ) writes:
Good for you. Why are you so petty and bitter?
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bySchroedingersCat ( 583063 ) writes:
If Harris-Biden administration is forgiving student loans, why don't people who paid off their loans or never took one get full credit for their college expenses? It is only seems fair.
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bytfranzese ( 869766 ) writes:
Did you miss the Public Service Loan Forgiveness part? I remember considering that path but didn't go down it. Kudos to those who did and the government honoring it seems pretty fair to me.
And since when was life fair?
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bydrnb ( 2434720 ) writes:
People are less concerned about fair than the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program being a payoff to the Public Service Employee Unions.
byJeslijar ( 1412729 ) writes:
Weird to put the VP first just because they are the ones running for re-election.
The biden campaign promise to eliminate some student debt was from around April 2020 or earlier. https://medium.com/@JoeBiden/j... [medium.com]
Kamala wasn't announced as VP until august.
So sick of people lumping in presidents and VPs as if they are the same person with the same plan. They are not. Just like how Trump and Pence were never the same and how Pence hates the guy now.
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byFortnite_Beast ( 10429778 ) writes:
It's not weird. The DNC deemed the current president obsolete, like in that Twilight Zone episode. The VP became the nominee without a real primary, so now she owns the Biden Harris legacy.
byTalon0ne ( 10115958 ) writes:
All while forbidding RFK Jr. from even trying to run as a D. So now it backfired horrendously and all the former Dem heroes are joining Trump. (And are being vilified like a former fat girl who got skinny).
byfuzznutz ( 789413 ) writes:
It's not weird. The DNC deemed the current president obsolete, like in that Twilight Zone episode.
The Obsolete Man [wikipedia.org] was one of the best episodes of the original Twilight Zone series. Burgess Meredith will always be associated with Time Enough at Last [wikipedia.org] but I think this one was actually a better story.
Ironically, the state Chancellor demonstrated himself to be an empty suit much like Kamala has shown herself to be.
byserviscope_minor ( 664417 ) writes:
Anyone who lists the VP at all never mind first when naming the administration clearly has a huge axe to grind.
byedwdig ( 47888 ) writes:
If we could fix every past mistake, that'd be great. But it's damn near impossible to do that under ideal circumstances, and our government makes it near impossible to do anything good.
Switching college education from mostly public funding to mostly private funding via loans was a disaster. We don't have a political climate where we can even bother discussing the idea of reforming that. We do have laws that allow us to help some people in certain situations tho. Take the small wins you can get and keep tryi
byHodr ( 219920 ) writes:
It may be bitter, but it's not petty. Calling out enablers of bad behavior is appropriate and should be encouraged.
bydpille ( 547949 ) writes:
For sure. How come you're not calling out the government for taxing particular debt? Are you hoping they'll start taxing your mortgage balance at 4.7%?
byApplehu Akbar ( 2968043 ) writes:
Good for you. Why are you so petty and bitter?
Because the Biden-Harris payoff does nothing to fix the problem, which is exorbitant tuition for degrees that do not equip a graduate to pay off the loans by himself. The loan sharks get paid off in full and the bloated educrats get paid off in full, at the expense of the taxpayers, while the students are still getting poor value for our money.
How would I do it? Structure a negotiated settlement by which the universities would get a fraction of their tuition and Washington no longer subsidizing the lenders. This way, students would have to convince lenders that their degree would result in Jon's that would pay off the financing, and colleges would have to compete for students, restraining tuition increases.
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