[AnotherUnixGeek]

--- "....after they have made their payments for 20 or 25 years...."

After making payments. That's the clever little PR rub.

The count doesn't start from today. Biden's plan would immediately wipe student debt for anyone who's been on the hook for 20 years. Working class folks who didn't go to college and have been paying interest on the washer/dryer set they bought right after 9/11 can go pound sand - the Democrats don't care about them.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "The count doesn't start from today. Biden's plan would immediately wipe student debt for anyone who's been on the hook for 20 years."

Perchance that will be the attempt, but the SC ruling will flummox that. It will be most interesting to follow this. "

Today, we have concluded that an instrumentality created by Missouri, governed by Missouri, and answerable to Missouri is indeed part of Missouri; that the words 'waive or modify' do not mean “completely rewrite”; and that our precedent— old and new—requires that Congress speak clearly before a Department Secretary can unilaterally alter large sections of the American economy. We have employed the traditional tools of judicial decision making in doing so. Reasonable minds may disagree with our analysis—in fact, at least three do.

What remains in the moment is more public perception and politics, as the Biden (Obama)administration tries to continue the game after the game is essentially over.

[rxsid]

"Working class folks who didn't go to college and have been paying interest on the washer/dryer set they bought right after 9/11 can go pound sand - the Democrats don't care about them."

Agreed.

Yet, far too many of those same working class folks will keep voting (D).

[ro_dreaming]

Or those of us who are still paying on a house, for that matter. We get nothing, pay everything.