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    Agreed! Paying for YOUR degrees is DANGEROUS! Paying for Billionaire’s Yachts via Warfare is AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM!

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      Because if we help them pay off those predatory loans, they’re less desperate and less likely to accept a bullshit job to avoid starvation and homelessness. Can’t have people having options, like those afforded to educated folks.

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      Don’t accept his premise. It’s completely incorrect. Statistics show that the vast majority of people getting student loan relief are not ultra wealthy, or even mildly wealthy, or Wealthy by any definition. Wealthy people don’t need student loans. It’s overwhelmingly people of lower middle class background or currently working in lower middle class jobs will receive student loan debt relief. People either just above just at or just below the poverty line.

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    Yeah. Cuz the next step is creating as public school system that includes 2 years of technical school…

    and that’d be socialist.

    and socialism is dangerous to his constituents.

    (if you’re not buying him off, you’re not his constituent.)

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    “THE ONLY THING THAT HELPS THE ECONOMY IS TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH!!!”, yelled Graham.

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    It’s beyond dangerous to the GOP to have a successful and educated society that isn’t crumbling under debts.

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    Progressives: “Reducing our $1.75T student debt balance by a $10B is simply too little and arriving too late to dig the current generation out of this debt crisis.”

    Conservatives: “Biden’s debt forgiveness plan murders innocent little white babies.”

    big fucking sigh

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    As someone who went to a private university and always believed it a superior choice, fuck that noise. A few states have started offering free instate tuition again, at public universities.

    Let’s change course here, let’s steer this baby over to the public side……

    How about

    • all public funding goes to free tuition at public universities/vo-tech for everyone that wants it
    • if you insist on going to private, you can do private funding. No loans for you. No grants for you
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      The bigger private unis already have endowments big enough to coast on indefinitely. Cornell has $9B for a student body of 25k. Harvard has a $51B trust fund for a student body of 30k. MIT has $24B across 12k students… When schools are this obscenely rich, tuition is a drop in the bucket.

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    Twisting words so hard I think the man is trying to verbally make a twizzler appear in thin air.

    Long as it isn’t a bowl of penunias, I suppose. Though I’m not against a whale appearing above his head.

    POINT IS, the GOP is trying to say that Biden using his authority as President, and loopholes almost certainly carved by past Republicans, to bypass evil restrictions (See: Senate v. Student Loan Debt), to help others is actually the same as Trump. He’s flipping the narrative and normalizing Executive power.

    What a little shit.