Posted on 01/30/2022 11:36:51 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Self-serving politicians are easy to spot. They’re different from the actual public servants like Donald Trump, Rand Paul, and Marjorie Taylor Greene who gave up so much in order to do what’s best for the country. Self-serving politicians tilt policies to benefit themselves, their families, and the cronies who help to keep them in power.
Many have equated “The Squad” to being the radical progressive version of the ideologues; they may be wrong in their Neo-Marxist perspectives, but at least they’re supposed to be true believers in their cause. Yet time and again, we’ve seen contradictions to this notion. Squad members have universally called to defund police and promote gun control while maintaining expensive personal security that their constituents could never afford. They complain about the rich while voting for their own pay raises. Now, there’s a more direct example of how their proposed policies would help them personally.
According to a report from the NY Post, most members of The Squad are deep in student debt just as they call for the Biden regime to eliminate it for them:
Many of the woke politicians who have pushed for student-loan cancellation are themselves hip-deep in school debt, federal records reviewed by The Post show.
Most members of “The Squad” — the coterie of socialist legislators led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) — fall into this category. Collectively, they owe between $180,004 and $400,000 in student loans, the records show.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez had a balance of between $15,001 and $50,000 in federal student loans as of 2020, according to her most recent personal financial disclosure. Despite her $174,000 annual salary, the economics major hasn’t paid off her balance, despite a zero percent interest rate and no payments due since March 2020.
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2 cops in Alexandria Ocasio Cortez city were murdered the past week and she didn’t give one single word of condolence to their families. But you can bet if those cops shot first saving their lives, Ms. “Defund the police” would have been first in line demanding they be charged with murder.
> They can’t be bothered to pay their loans back, you peasants think the rich pay their debts? <
Some clever person (I forget who) once said that the rich have no morals, and the poor have no morals. Only the middle class has morals. Only they try to do why is right.
While that’s obviously an over-simplification, it is something to think about.
usually in gender studies or some such nonsense.
If she would benefit directly from legislation, wouldn’t she have to recuse herself?
Hahahahaha!
Am I the only one who finds this comical?
The smartest thing any man thinking about marriage can do is to pay for a background check AND a credit check on the prospective partner.
One of our DNA male heirs got that advice from an older woman friend re a possible wife.
Turned out that possible and another loser woman before were swimming in debt from student loans and still just spending/charging more on their credit cards.
That kind, wise and older woman said that many if not most California single women do a credit check on most of the guys they date to see if he is worth pursuing.
Now with Zillow, besides the credit check on a guy, they can find out how much his house is worth, if he owns a home.
This is a result of sending morons to college who have NO BUSINESS BEING THERE. Like the military, college isn’t for everybody, IMHO. Rather than spend all their Head Start years trying to determine their “gender”, kids should be seriously thinking what they want to do with their lives when mom and dad saw off their end of the dinner table.
Yep.....their debt becomes ‘our’ debt and then the fighting begins followed by a visit to a divorce lawyer...
*Despite her $174,000 annual salary, the economics major hasn’t paid off her balance, despite a zero percent interest rate and no payments due since March 2020.*
No financial advisor would advise her to pay it off. Zero interest is free money. Even a bank at 1% interest is one percent she doesn’t have to pay.
I have changed my views on this issue a little.
I couldn't care less about the self righteous students who got into debt for degrees in women's studies or LGBT studies.
However, there are a lot of people who did what they were supposed to do and got degrees in technical fields, only to have the bottom pulled out by the free traitors who shipped those jobs out of the country. I'm all in favor of helping them out.
I’m 83, and the older I get, the more often I agree with your reply!:
“The Rich have no morals, and the poor have no morals. Only the middle class has morals. Only they try to do what is right!”
The exception, seems to be the older and poor widows, whose husbands made stupid or bad investments or abandoned their wives. Their crime was often outliving their husbands.
I was waiting for a Zoom call to start the other day when a couple of women started discussing their student loan debt and how they hoped theirs would be canceled. One of them instructed the others on how to file for debt forgiveness, and told them her $35,000 debt had just been written off in consideration of her “service employment.” They all work for a non-profit, which is apparently considered “service.” This was the first I had heard about such a program.
You get a refund if you already paid off your student loan, right?
“Yep.....their debt becomes ‘our’ debt and then the fighting begins followed by a visit to a divorce lawyer...!”
We know of 4 guys from ages 30/40 to 55, and one in his late 70’s in that sinking boat.
Some of those guys should share the blame as they pretended to be well off, and one missed paycheck might lead to financial disaster.
Not to mention their health care and retirement (pension) perks.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez had a balance of between $15,001 and $50,000 in federal student loans as of 2020, according to her most recent personal financial disclosure. Despite her $174,000 annual salary, the economics major hasn’t paid off her balance, despite a zero percent interest rate and no payments due since March 2020.
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Freeloading leftists. What’s new. On a salary of $174K, AOC could easily set aside $5K per month for the student loan. If she owed $50K, she’d have it paid off inside of a year.
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Some clever person (I forget who) once said that the rich have no morals, and the poor have no morals. Only the middle class has morals. Only they try to do why is right.
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Never heard that one before. I like it.
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