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Now We Know Why “The Squad” Is So Adamant About Canceling Student Debt
The Liberty Daily ^ | Jan. 30, 2022 | J.D. Rucker

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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To: Gaffer

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41 posted on 01/30/2022 1:06:56 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: Grampa Dave

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42 posted on 01/30/2022 1:09:55 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“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.”

The Deans and most professors at many of our colleges have a couple of big scams going for them.

#1 Everyone should go to college!

#2 Don’t worry about getting a degree that will enable you to get a job after your graduation.

#3 Get a masters and maybe a PhD in the same Instant Unemployment Degree (IUD!). Then, you can be a great professor and teach the same B$ using your former students with their worthless degrees as TA’s or assistant professors.

#4 Create and expand the student loan B$ with minimal or no repayment to pay for #1, 2 and 3 above.

Then, keep repeating #1-4 from above for your sons and daughters and grand kids.


43 posted on 01/30/2022 1:32:23 PM PST by Grampa Dave (How do you prove fraud, when those that determine fraud, use fraud to cover the fraud?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So AOC can drive a $60k Tesla but can’t afford to pay her student loan ..... here comes the waaaambluance.


44 posted on 01/30/2022 1:43:31 PM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: Grampa Dave

“It takes women an average of 2 years longer to pay off their student loans despite making higher payments.”

This only makes sense if women are taking out bigger loans.


45 posted on 01/30/2022 1:59:34 PM PST by Brookhaven (Ted Cruz said Jan. 6 was terrorism)
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To: Grampa Dave

YOU nailed it. Well said. The truth too.


46 posted on 01/30/2022 2:19:07 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: gw-ington
Has nothing to do with their own personal debt. Those far-left Democrat politicians are making fortunes off their political careers, so paying off their student debt is a piece of cake (they'll get to it when they get to it).

The reason they want to cancel all student debt (i.e., "give away massive amounts of free taxpayer money to students across the country") is to secure more votes to keep them in office, in big-money positions, in power, and also to continue devaluing the dollar, reducing Americans' spending power, making Americans more desperate, more dependent, and thus demanding the socialist "government" please help them with even more new spending programs ... which of course leads them to vote for more and more far-left Democrat/RINO politicians (who liberally promise even more wasteful spending programs) ... Shampoo, rinse, repeat ... a vicious never-ending cycle ...

So right you are, they are also doing everything they can to destroy the middle class.

47 posted on 01/30/2022 3:33:19 PM PST by MAAG (for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You can with certainty know there’s a huge kickback for anyone or group that’s pushing this on the taxpayers.....including the squad.


48 posted on 01/30/2022 9:30:41 PM PST by caww ( )
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