Student loan forgiveness
would be a bailout for elites
Washington Examiner,
by
Editorial
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
11/18/2020 5:47:41 AM
American voters sent a clear signal in this election that while they are ready to move on from President Trump, they are wary of giving Democrats the power to impose a sweeping left-wing agenda.
In a best-case scenario for Democrats, the Biden administration will start with a smaller Democratic majority in the House and a 50-50 Senate. If Republicans can win just one of the two Georgia Senate runoff races, Democrats will be stuck in the minority in the upper chamber.
Preparing for that possibility, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is urging President-elect Joe Biden to bypass Congress to wipe away student loan debt.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Firefly 11/18/2020 6:16:22 AM (No. 609150)
Et Tu Brute?
Can the Deep State get to anyone?
6 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
PChristopher 11/18/2020 7:21:45 AM (No. 609185)
Student loans are an undeniable burden on young borrowers, but they also represent obligations that they took on because they wanted to obtain something of value. Something of value? you mean like those all important Women's Studies degrees? What a joke.
14 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
navybrat 11/18/2020 7:41:47 AM (No. 609198)
I know I am excited to pay for someone's gender and women's studies degree./s
16 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 11/18/2020 7:52:43 AM (No. 609210)
I think its time American taxpayers tapped into those huge endowments held by our "esteemed" universities. This is their chance to participate in reparations to the mind-slaves they whipped into submission.
17 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
pros7767 11/18/2020 7:55:21 AM (No. 609213)
Sorry, we paid for our 2 children's education by refinancing our house so they had no loans. I have no intention of paying for anyone else!
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And for those of us who paid our student loans, and helped with those of our children, we get all of that money refunded too? Silly me, of course not!
20 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
LadyHen 11/18/2020 8:41:50 AM (No. 609257)
Our son is in trade school for HVAC. He has 2 scholarships paying for his schooling which last 18 months. He chose this path to avoid huge school debt and because he wants to get out there with a skilled trade they can't outsource or take away and start making a career for himself asap. We have supported him 100% in this.
So because he made wise choices, he gets to pay for everyone else's college debt.... for their worthless college degrees that lead to either no job or a job wholly unrelated to anything they "studied"?!
They signed the loan papers. One can presume they can read since they got into college. Grow the hell up! Pay your own bills you worthless snowflakes! They always need someone to bail them out. Grow up!
Unless going into a specific trade (an advanced medical field, engineering, law, other STEM fields that require specific study), college is a huge waste of time, money, and resources. Experience and apprenticeships would be far more valuable to most workers. But Big Education must be placated and fed. They have to warp the minds of the young folks and make them good little drones.
17 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 11/18/2020 8:48:31 AM (No. 609266)
Right off the bat in this article, I am NOT ready to move on from President Trump, and neither are the 70 million people who voted for him. Forget all this other crap going on and get this election reversed ASAP. WIth Trump back in charge, he can keep stop this Schumer nonsense and keep this country on track and quash the Democrats for a long time to come.
16 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
hershey 11/18/2020 8:55:40 AM (No. 609277)
Ready to leave Trump? Really? You've been listening to big media for way too long...
8 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 11/18/2020 9:11:35 AM (No. 609303)
The first sentence was such a big lie, I started not to read further. But that is basically unfair, so I read on. Wouldn't it be just deserts if instead of wiping away all student loan debt, the college degrees awarded under the last 30 or so years could be reevaluated to what they are actually worth? I did a coffee spurt just thinking about it. LOL, and hahaha.
7 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/18/2020 9:45:01 AM (No. 609329)
This is such an obvious vote-buying scheme that it should make everybody sick. Unemployed snowflakes with college degrees are of benefit to nobody else except for maybe Burger King but I'm sure they consider that beneath their skills. Why not forgive the home mortgage or the car loan and help actual working people, not idiots who can't get a job with their worthless degree so they live in the basement and join Antifa? Start them off in life with a government handout and they will expect that treatment for their entire lives. I guess I just answered my own question.
7 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 11/18/2020 9:54:19 AM (No. 609337)
The divorced (and abandoned) single mother might be working two jobs to feed and clothe her children without going on welfare. Why should her taxes go to fund the snowflake who had four years of playtime in college? Why should we----who sent our sons to state universities----pay for snowflakes to go to Oberlin and Harvard? Why should a widow living on her pension and small interest from her meager savings pay for middle and upper class snowflakes to go to university? Why should our sons have worked all through high school and all through college so---with our help---so they didn't have to take out college loans? Our sons have no debt to forgive because we all managed our money with foresight that began shortly after their birth. Why should we be punished for being responsible? Why should our sons---who worked constantly through college and high school at dirty jobs such as tearing down condemned buildings, shoveling sawdust in a stifling hot East Texas sawmill, and paving tar highways in the hot Texas sun----pay for the debt incurred by those who tap-danced their way through college on loans they are not paying back?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
jimboscott 11/18/2020 10:03:40 AM (No. 609358)
Exactly right.
If this were to ever be enacted, then those kids, like mine, who attended a college that they could pay CASH for should be given 40 or 50 grand just for the hell of it.
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 11/18/2020 10:54:47 AM (No. 609448)
No, the democrats sent the signal. They said phooey to the American people and what they want, we are going to take this office by hook or crook. We no longer care about honesty. That is the signal sent you fakers. And you all know it very well.
3 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
skacmar 11/18/2020 11:17:58 AM (No. 609477)
Like my parents told me when I was college age.... your'e the one going to college, your'e the one paying for it. If they don't want student loan debt, they should have gone to less expensive colleges or gotten more jobs while in college (like I did). People not going to college, low income people (unemployed waitresses, factory workers) should not subsidize future doctors, lawyers, people who make money. People with degrees like Womyns Studies, Bi-Racial Lesiban History, or other useless unemployable degrees knew what they were getting into. They chose to get the loans, they can pay for them by themselves.
3 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 11/18/2020 12:29:41 PM (No. 609554)
Well if anyone’s student loans are forgiven it should be all the different classes on nurses who are in contact with COVID patients in their workplaces either while conducting COVID testing or in hospital settings where they could easily be infected with COVID, but keep doing their jobs, and do not hide in their parent’s basements playing video games. Those nurses, many of them single parents, put their lives at risk every shift that they work, and are certainly not elite wage earners.
We know one young lady, a BSN RN, who has been doing COVID testing, in accordance with all the personal protective device guidelines, and still her, the doctor and LPN that she works with closely with all came up positive for COVID and had to be quarantined. Luckily none of them came down with any symptoms other than the sniffles, and were able to return to work after having a couple of negative COVID tests. Our friend definitely contracted COVID because she took the antibody tests and came back with a high level of antibodies. They were lucky that none of them got really sick.
Like I say, nurses should be first in line for their medical education student loans being forgiven.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
john56 11/18/2020 1:55:07 PM (No. 609631)
Whatever happens, the law will be written that you or I will get "no benefit" from Uncle Sam's generosity. We will get the bill, though
3 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
mifla 11/19/2020 5:03:04 AM (No. 610110)
I paid off my loans. If I have to pay for others now, it is time to seriously consider how and when I file my taxes.
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