Posted on 11/23/2020 7:51:16 AM PST by MarvinStinson
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) pushed for the cancellation of student debt to help “ensure” an “equitable” economic recovery from the effects of the shutdowns amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Pressley told MSNBC that she will push the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration to cancel student debt via executive order on day one.
“I’m certainly not going to abdicate my responsibility to continue to fight for [a coronavirus relief package],” Pressley advised. “You know, this Democratic majority-led House has passed multiple bills to meet the scale and scope of this crisis to mitigate the hurt people are feeling, and this callous, and might I add clueless, GOP-led Senate has refused to act. And they have consistently failed the American people.”
“I can only tell you what I have continued to advocate for is everything from paid leave, which, you know, these should not be controversial,” she added. “The fact that people need to be able to stay home from work because they’re not feeling well or to take care of ill loved ones, again, canceling rent and mortgages, eviction and foreclosure moratoriums. I mean, I’m getting projections in my district of 60,000 to 100,000 who are vulnerable and on the precipice of eviction right now in the midst of a pandemic, which is surging out of control and, of course, unprecedented food insecurity. And so, first and foremost, we have got to get this pandemic under control, make the robust federal investments for a national testing strategy, the investments for contact tracing, and then once a vaccine is made available, ensure that it is equitably distributed. We are finally turning the page on this dark chapter in our history. ”
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So she wants to force people who chose not to go to college to help pay for those who did. How is that equitable?
Direct STEM degreed grads to STEM related work, and then the STEM grads or the hiring companies can butter up the hiring packages with $$ towards payoff.
bttt
We need to claw back unpaid loan funds from the universities that received them....
Sorry, but I worked my butt off to payoff my student loans, and I resent bailing out people with “studies” degrees.
What was seen cannot be unseen.
Please pass the eye bleach.
Her clown wig is at the cleaners.
Should any parent or grandparent give to 529 Plans?
It means they’ll buy a P/S5 instead of paying off the debt the SIGNED UP RESPONSIBILITY FOR.
First it is a man, no? Second, she has debt, yes? Third, how will Biden pay for anything else if he pays for this alone?
You know what, pay it off. Just pay it all off.
Then see what happens next. I mean just tell me what happens afterward. I’ve had this argument with snowflakes for months. It’s funny to hear some of them try to answer. Most dont have an answer.
The utility where I am is giving forbearance to those who can’t pay their bills.
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In other words everyone else is paying for them.
MIT economics graduate?
equitable to everyone except those that saved and sacrificed to pay for their own education.
Punish those that paid from their earnings for the children’s education. Total BS.
Pay off your own damn debt!
I am OK with that as long as it comes out of the endowments of the universities that exploited them
I was married, had a kid, and still worked my way through college. Paid cash for everything. I went to school in the mornings and worked at night....for 5 years. These people are idiots.
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