Posted on 10/17/2024 3:28:34 AM PDT by blueplum
WASHINGTON (AP) — A student loan cancellation program for public workers has granted relief to more than 1 million Americans — up from just 7,000 who were approved before it was updated by the Biden administration two years ago.
President Joe Biden announced the milestone on Thursday, saying his administration restored a promise to America’s teachers, firefighters, nurses and other public servants. He celebrated it even as his broader student loan plans remain halted by courts following legal challenges by Republican-led states...
In all, the program has erased $74 billion in loans for public workers.
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They are NOT public “workers”. They are government employees. The last thing they do is work, unless it’s to subvert and destroy the USA in the name of communism.
Trump needs to fire all of them so they can use their worthless “student education” to find jobs in the private sector. /spit
It used to be that the only way to get student loan forgiveness was to work in an impoverished or rural community for a period, or do some other form of public service (not just work in a government job).
People working in public jobs, with their pensions and other perks, should NOT be getting student loan forgiveness. When you get something for ‘free’ from the government you are actually getting this from your neighbors and the rest of us who have paid taxes.
Something like this was always the plan. Cancel debt for Biden’s people. Not for regular Americans.
“Something like this was always the plan. Cancel debt for Biden’s people. Not for regular Americans.”
The plan was to remove money from the treasury to exacerbate Cloward-Piven.
Some people are more equal than others.
No, I think he would have canceled everyone's debts if the courts let him.
It's just legally easier for him to cancel the debts of government workers.
playing to thier constituency, they fool no one. Only problem is he and most of them are untouchable by law and ae gettting away with it
Thank you taxpayers!!
The banks will now be paid, by the Taxpayers. It's just a gift to buy the votes of the dead-beat non-payers, foisted onto others.
Nothing political in this decision - nothing I tell you!
This system can’t last much longer. The transition to whatever comes next promises to be quite painful.
Excellent point. Bidummy is effectively saying working for FedGov or other preferred jobs is charity work. How far does that go? Would a bureaucrat at the EPA be exempt from paying any federal tax? Would an executive at the Transportation Department be first in line for the latest socialist redistribution of wealth?
For those working at real charities, nothing?
For those who donate substantial portions of their income, sorry?
For those who independently serve others in charitable acts, donate money, and seek nothing in return? Sorry Charlie, remember tax is due in April.
My point obviously isn’t to extend handouts of other taxpayers money. It’s the idiotic notion that having Uncle Sam (or whatever local bureaucracy) sign your paycheck makes you a special deserving class.
Full disclosure, I do work for a charity, and I neither want or expect any handouts for it.
$74 billion spread over 1 million “workers” comes out to $74,000 per vote.
Inflation has hit the vote market especially hard.
bkmk
One needs a “college diploma” to work for the government? Since when?
Is there no one paying attention? Where are our Republican congressmen? Are they asleep or just drunk?
So using taxpayers’ money the current maladministration pays off a bunch of slacker government “workers” so that they can continue wasting taxpayers’ money by being employed by the government. Something is very, very wrong here. To forgive the loans of these hardly-working parasites is a problem for the rest of society. To give some credit...many of these government types work very hard...the question is “Do they do anything productive for society?” Unfortunately, in most instances the answer is “No”.
Post #4 - Thank you, A great article
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