Two conservative groups are asking a federal court to block the Biden administration’s plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans for more than 800,000 borrowers.
Democrats could rinse and repeat this political strategy to multiple white house victories. Create policy that benefits common people while showing republicans as desperate to a holes that want to stop the help at any cost.
This has been shown to work very well in developing countries.
That may be, but if the military is that subsidized, why not some of the normal folk?
Has this actually helped Biden win support? Because it seems like the same people benefiting from his policies are vocally trashing him
The Education Department called the suit “a desperate attempt from right wing special interests to keep hundreds of thousands of borrowers in debt.”
“We are not going to back down or give an inch when it comes to defending working families,” the department said in a statement.
Do they even realize that lots and lots of working families are provided for by people who, spoiler alert, are student loan borrowers?
Yes. That’s the point.
If working families get out of poverty they have to be paid more when you want to exploit their labor.
At some point you have to wonder how does this benefit conservatives at all? On the contrary, forgiving student debt would free up the income of several people in their districts to spend money and stimulate the economy. From a church’s perspective, any money that isn’t being spent on repayment is potentially money being dumped into their collection plates. And for all those conservative people who want liberals/queer people/racial minorities to move away from them, they would certainly have more money to do so. Even to the most die hard conservative, I don’t see how this isn’t an absolute win?
It helps people, and for conservatives the cruelty is the point.
Nah, they feed their base hate but that’s their playbook and not the point.
Power and money are the point and poor people are easier to exploit. Everything they’re doing, even abortion, is about keeping the cycle of poverty going.
More liberals go to college than conservatives. So while this will hurt some of their base, it will hurt their enemy more. And it’s a culture war victory for their aging boomer base that enjoyed cheap college and never had to struggle with college debt.
If loan forgiveness goes though its a major win for the Democrats and they cant have that. If republicans block it, then the peasants among us can claim that Democrats were never serious about it and both parties are the same.
Because conservatives don’t represent people they represent Wall Street
That’s a bingo
Poor, vulnerable people are easier for the capitalist class to exploit for lower wages.
I know one generation in particular who is going to be pissed about this…
The one who was able to afford a year of college after working a single part-time job over the summer?
My genx Brother in Law loves to bring up how he had to pay for college working a pressure washing and catering job. So that’s two part-time jobs. 🙄 Of course the idea of student loan forgiveness is outrageous to him.
I don’t understand why they keep doing research on curing cancer. it wouldn’t be fair to my dad who died a couple years back. just not fair at all.
I don’t understand why they bailed out the banks in '08, it wasn’t fair to citizens who were in debt because their houses were underwater, just not fair at all.
tbh 15 years later I wish they let the banks fail. It would have been a pretty terrible 10 years, but I think by now we’d have a functioning world better suited for today’s generations/problems.
I am also Gen X with 2 teenagers. My college tuition was roughly $3-5k per year. For my kids, college tuition will be $9k/year. I have no problem with student loan forgiveness. College tuition has gotten out of control and student loans are holding younger generations back.
Student loans do not effect the wealthy. They simply do not have student loans. For them it is a waste of tax money.
And boomers did not need student loans because college was affordable. They believe you can still get s part time job and pay for school. So to them, quit being so lazy.
Then we have the rich boomers that pay politicians to rage for them.
Tax money that they, by and large, don’t pay anyway
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Conservatives decide to use the court system to fuck over people in need? What a shocker!
The GOP/Nazi party is sickening to watch in their cruelty.
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