Joe really does need to yolo some shit going into 2022 if he wants to save his presidency.
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Biden Admin Pauses Student Loan Payments Until May 1st
- Thread starter Grimminski
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Just forgive capitalized interest, make them dischargable in bankruptcy, get out of guaranteeing loans for college, and get the federal government to cover the difference from what states won't cover for their public universities. Do those things and this problem will slowly but surely be solved.
The government should not be issuing loans for college. Either cover the entire cost or don't bother. Whoever thought of the idea to get government backed guarantees for college loans was either evil or extremely stupid.
The government should not be issuing loans for college. Either cover the entire cost or don't bother. Whoever thought of the idea to get government backed guarantees for college loans was either evil or extremely stupid.
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I think this use to be possible but not anymore? I remember an appellate case about it a few years ago too.
It hasn't been possible since the Joe Biden backed bankruptcy 'reform' bill was passed in 2006. Biden has a massive amount of responsibility for the student loan mess.
Write blank checks to universities that are guaranteed by the government and make it impossible to discharge those loans in bankruptcy. What could go wrong?!?
If the goal was to weaken the middleclass it was a masterful success. Otherwise heads should roll, with Biden being one of the guiltiest parties. If anyone is going to stick their neck out and attempt to rectify the idiocy that is the way we 'publicly' fund higher education it should be Joe Biden. If he wants to have any legacy at all it's his best shot in my opinion.
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What do you think the basis of politics is? It's always been the have's vs. the have-not's, but in the U.S., they have turned it into red vs. blue putting the have-not's against one another while the haves laugh to the bank. Politics 101. Both Dems and Republicans are rich and poor, but only the poor get caught up in the political machine.
We love to say that the system is broken, but it's not. It's brilliant if you are rich and it's working as intended.
Yes please.
Also, do what you said you were going to do so that it doesn't look so blatantly like you duped people into voting for you.
I know debt cancellation will just continue to be held hostage as some sort of election trump card, if it even happens at all.
why do people keep ignoring everything else he has done? We just infrastructure passed after like a decade of talking about it for example.
this is still year one of four as well. Yet people act as if it's year seven or eight.
I'll take that for now
I don't think you understand election cycles and midterms. Lame duck president.
I don't think you understand election cycles and midterms. Lame duck president.
how lovely that the president is only in office for a year now.
He's not a lame duck till he's lost an election or his replacement has won election and we are in transition.
It appears more broken to me, the idea of a political system's foundation depending on the bulk of its citizens being too stupid or unable to afford forcing it into reformation through effective protest in any fashion isn't very solid imo. Or I guess I should say its not really brilliant, feels more like a fortunate scenario you take advantage of.
If I was some kind of evil overlord, I wouldn't really bet my governance only on thinking the people are too dumb to uprise in any form.
I've "lucked" my way into my industry with only a high school diploma. More like started at the bottom and 16 years later, I make bank. I look at my position on salary.com and see the education required for this job and it's insane. Thank god, should I want to leave, I at least have my work experience and many training certificates to fall back on.
I can't imagine having a student loan payment being held over my head, while looking for job these days.
I'll never understand why education isn't free. But I guess that's a topic for a different thread.
Congrats to those that were worried about that February deadline. Let's keep hoping they keep moving it back, or forgive it all entirely.
I can't imagine having a student loan payment being held over my head, while looking for job these days.
I'll never understand why education isn't free. But I guess that's a topic for a different thread.
Congrats to those that were worried about that February deadline. Let's keep hoping they keep moving it back, or forgive it all entirely.
1. There isn't a single landlord, hospital, or grocer on earth who will accept "infrastructure" as payment.
2. Nobody gets credit for doing the bare minimum.
3. The BIF isn't even the bare minimum.
For example: the BIF includes $15 billion for removing and replacing America's lead pipes—too bad estimates put the cost of doing that at $30-60 billion.
But don't worry, Biden's not going to just let 1/2-3/4 of all lead pipes stay in place: his administration's new plan is simply asking state governments to please use COVID emergency funds to replace lead pipes for him.
No, it's year one of two. Absolutely nothing is going to be passed when Republicans take back the House (and we're at the point where even keeping the Senate is looking unlikely). At that point he will truly have nothing but executive action available to him.
Biden wrote some massive checks, and nearly all the ones that directly and immediately impact people's lives are going uncashed. He could sign a thousand BIFs and it wouldn't win him a second term.
Infrastructure is something the federal government is supposed to be on top of and updating routinely. Not some once in a generation bill. I'll applaud him if he passes BBB.
unfortuneately, it doesn't get funded on a regular basis.
take the victories you can, don't doom and gloom over because good is t the same as perfect.
As for year one of two, if you folks keep spreading that FUD and downplaying victories, yeah he's going to lose a majority in Congress.
want to get stuff done? Expand the majority, simple as that. Throwing your hands up year one that he didn't burn 100% of his political capital and somehow rule by fiat all the liberal causes into existence is utterly asinine behavior.
I suppose some people just really want conservatives back In power. Easier to play the underdog / anti establishment complex that way.
Good lord are you serious with this? Spreading FUD and that's why they'll lose Congress? Miss me with that
Yeah, it's supposed to be that way, but reality is it isn't. And people acting like Dems don't deserve credit for being the adults in the room when the GOP is the reason infrastructure is always behind and underfunded is just another symptom of what's wrong with how voters treat the parties in this country.
Thanks for the lecture about this past year but some of us are not going to jump up an down for a glorified highway bill just because you don't want to feel bad about this administration. Considering what some people are going through while the clock runs down, If he can't get anything more done in year 2, it's going to bad for turnout in November. Just the way it is.
At least my wife's PSLF is still ticking away. These pauses count as "payments", so she's only got a few more years to deal with this shit.
No one should have to pay a penny of student loan debt or tuition as long as tax evading billionaires exist. It's fucking absurd to claim otherwise while those leeches are camped out on vast piles of wealth without making proportional contributions to the betterment of society.
Yes, actually I was hoping Biden would double my debt. What a stupid response.
So thankful to President Biden for saving us from that awful thing that President Biden was going to do.
"We already extended it twice, what more do you want?"
Get ready for Ms. Psaki to say that in March folks.
Get ready for Ms. Psaki to say that in March folks.
Shocked he did it, but I won't complain until they start up again lol.
I bet he'll delay payment startup until after midterms.
I bet he'll delay payment startup until after midterms.
I feel like I'm on death row and I keep preparing to die and they move the clock back, it's torture.... Like I like being not dead but for the love of God just cancel it
I am hoping that is the play, cancel near mid terms, keep it fresh in peoples minds. Quite shit in the meantime though.
Bro, even if Democrats came out in 2022 with the exact same vote share they had in 2020 (which is not happening), they will lose the House purely through the GOP's now +13 seat gerrymandering advantage alone (and they're not even done redistricting). Throw in supremely aggressive new voter suppression laws and Biden's rotten approval numbers, and we're probably losing the Senate, too.
He's an elected official with agency, not a shitcoin you yolo'd your life's savings into.
Lol what. Where are you getting this information because it certainly doesn't match the reality. For quite some time we've known gerrymandering would be a complete wash and current trajectory possibly suggests there being more Biden-won districts after redistricting than in 2020.
Dude made promises about student debt forgiveness and seems to not care about those, his government doesn't need to start up repayment but wants to anyways just because,
What kind of response do you expect when your only post is a no-context drive-by, seemingly plucked from the bowels of GETTR?
The hostility is completely unnecessary.
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How about don't respond at all if you're so politically inept that you can't understand an expression of frustration at an administration completely failing to fulfill an already mediocre campaign promise. Kindly piss off, thank you.
Republicans Gain Heavy House Edge in 2022 as Gerrymandered Maps Emerge (Published 2021)
On a highly distorted congressional map that is still taking shape, the party has added enough safe House districts to capture control of the chamber based on its redistricting edge alone.
+13 probably isn't the right way to express that. They'd flipped 5 seats at the time of that article's publication, flipped one more in NC (I think) since then, and maintained their numbers but eliminated 1 Dem seat in Ohio. I'd love nothing more than to be wrong, so if you have something that says this is bs or that I can't read, please god let me have it.
Mediocre campaign promise? Lol
You realize student loan forgiveness works be one of the absolute biggest government programs of all-time by scope and financial impact to individuals, right? What planet do you live on in which that would be mediocre?
Republicans Gain Heavy House Edge in 2022 as Gerrymandered Maps Emerge (Published 2021)
On a highly distorted congressional map that is still taking shape, the party has added enough safe House districts to capture control of the chamber based on its redistricting edge alone.www.nytimes.com
+13 probably isn't the right way to express that. They'd flipped 5 seats at the time of that article's publication, flipped one more in NC (I think) since then, and maintained their numbers but eliminated 1 Dem seat in Ohio. I'd love nothing more than to be wrong, so if you have something that says this is bs or that I can't read, please god let me have it.
I can't read the article but here is Wasserman himself today: