Student Loan Bailout Will Enable Foreign Travel [semi-satire]

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) went on the Late Show where she and host discussed a little known potential benefit of shifting the burden of paying off college debt from the students who borrowed the money to taxpayers.

"One of my greatest regrets after I got out of college is that I had to go to work to pay off my student loans," the Congresswoman lamented. "This seemed so unfair when many of my rich classmates had the money to go abroad to experience the world and all its wonders. If my loans had been forgiven I could've used the payments I had to make on my debt to travel. Unfortunately for me, the president when I graduated in 2011 didn't think he had the authority to forgive student debt."

"President Biden, however, is more concerned with doing the right thing regardless of whether he has the legal authority to do it," AOC said. "He's fended off objections and forged ahead to cancel billions of dollars of student debt. He cares enough about the well-being of young people to go the extra mile and give them a helping hand in their pursuit of happiness."

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She could have funded her travels in the US and overseas the way I did. I enlisted in the USAF in 1973. Saw Beautiful Clovis New Mexico, for example. Which I thought of as a pit until I wound up in Saudi Arabia in 1990 & 1991... Where I learned how much nicer Clovis and the surrounding area was than I had previously believed. :) Northwest Florida, and Southern Nevada were pretty nice, too. South Carolina wasn’t all bad, either. Not compared to Saudi Arabia, anyway. Though they claimed that the day after two days of rain in South Carolina was called “Monday.” Turkey (or Turkiye as they prefer it now) was a nifty place back in the 80’s, not sure it would be all that good now. North Africa and Germany weren’t terrible, but the cost of living was really high when I was there in Germany from late 1991-1996, and I was required to move 4 times in just barely five years. I hadn’t intended to move to Tornado Alley, either, but it’s not been that bad. Coming up on 28 years there now. And I lived in Los Angeles and visited NYC, Colorado, Mississippi & Georgia, among other places in the USA.

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