Posted on 04/09/2024 8:44:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yesterday afternoon, Joe Biden visited Wisconsin and announced a new student loan bailout program, “a proposal that would cancel at least some debt” for more than 30 million borrowers.
Then, last night, Alexandria Ocasion-Cortez joined Stephen Colbert on the Late Show to discuss the move, applauding Biden’s gift of “hope” for college graduates who will now have the opportunity to… “travel abroad” on trips they would have been otherwise unable to afford if they were held to the original stipulations of the loan.
By passing the debt onto people who didn’t incur it—er, I mean, by implementing loan “forgiveness,” Biden is buying votes—er, I mean, giving kids the chance to gallivant across Europe or find themselves in Bali, on Instagram-worthy trips. What benevolence!
Here’s what AOC said, via Breitbart News:
‘And this is huge, this is — people getting the student loan forgiveness, their student loans canceled, it means that it’s hope to buy a house or have a kid or travel abroad or maybe even go back to school and pursue a career that maybe they otherwise wouldn’t have. One of the reasons that’s not me now is because I didn’t feel like I’d be able to afford medical school. And so, hopefully, someone else who’s at an ISEF competition somewhere will be able to do that because of this.’
Maybe even “go back to school” to incur more debt on the taxpayers’ behalf? Dear heavens—please, no! (And dumber-than-a-box-of-rocks AOC didn’t go to medical school because it was only a matter of dollars and cents? Give me a break.
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It’s so easy to use other people’s money. We paid over $300k in income tax alone this year and am just sick of our government pissing it away.
I honestly paid off 11 student loans.
I want my money back!!!
Deadbeat “american” college grads are as bad as wetback illegal aliens. They want the U.S. taxpayers to pay for their “better life” galivanting around Europe with a bottle of water and pack back collecting T-shirts of all the pubs they got blasted in. Biden owes them that for putting his goatsmellin’ ass in office.
Here’s the gem of her statement, “...or maybe even go back to school...”
Get the government out of the loan business and have the schools back the loans , then they’d have a reason to make sure their students are ready to get a job. As long as the goverment backs the loans and schools will charge as much as possible since it’s guaranteed.
Liberals want us to pay back their voters loans but none of them come up with a plan to make schools cheaper.
Just think of the overseas travel that people could afford if their mortgages were just forgiven.
All bets are now off, with respect to what people will do. People that know they are getting screwed without recourse will do all sorts of things if they have half a chance. Maybe not immediately, but once trust and “the rule of law” as they like to say no longer exists, it no longer exists for anyone. Bad times are here, worse times are coming, guaranteed.
They are welcome to travel abroad, as long as they don’t come back!
DC mom given $10,800 taxpayer-funded lump sum as part of scheme to help poor families spends $6,000 on luxury trip to MIAMI and 15 vacation outfits for her three kids
‘I wanted to blow it. I wanted to have fun,’ she said. The spending spree included 15 brand new outfits for her kids - one for each child for each day of the vacation - and a $180 haircut to make her not ‘look like a working, stressed mom.’
I have a daughter and Son in Law who spent their 20’s and 30’s with that exact attitude. When it came to choosing to save or use money wisely, they would use the following three words. “We Deserve It”.
I was raised in a family of 7 kids, a HOMEmaker for a Mom, and using those 3 words would get you sent to bed, smacked in the mouth, or a butt whippin’.
My parents said only one thing consistently to us while growing up, You DO NOT deserve anything you don’t earn. If you want respect, you earn it by your actions. If you want a new baseball Mitt, you earn it by delivering papers and saving for it. If you want to get a grade in school, you EARN it. Everything was earned, except for love. That was given freely.
OK-if they STAY abroad 😁
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