Student loan forgiveness
Student loan forgiveness
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Not fancy private schools. They'll cover majority cost of their kid's private school.
They want YOUR poor kid to go to a religious school - if they win on the vouchers, eventually the vouchers won't cover the cost of most of the former public schools and private schools. But those religious schools... They'll be standing there salivating with open arms and subsidized voucher tuition. Without other options, you'll send your kid and tell yourself it won't be that bad, tell yourself you'll keep communicating with them to contextualize the education versus the religion, but life will happen. The church will have millions more kids to attempt to indoctrinate than they do in today's regularly declining religious communities.
Under his fucking eye.
Vote. Tell your people to vote and call your "both sides" uncle a piece of shit to his misinformed face.
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I don't think this comparison really works. These people are against their money going to other people, whether it's to a public school or to pay off somebody else's student loans. Agree with them or not, those things are logically consistent.
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Vouchers are my tax dollars. So they don't want their money to go to anyone else, but they're ok taking everyone else's.
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These people are against their money going to other people
It's more strategic. Student loan debt is a mechanism for controlling the employment prospects of college grads.
Public debt forgiveness becomes a method for funneling students into low paying, morally hazardous jobs (prosecutors, police, the public side of the MIC, education in underfunded neighborhoods, bureaucrat in a corrupt or underfunded agency) where you've got an incentive to keep your head down and do the work rather than organize your office or resist deplorable government policies.
Private industries, similarly, offer the better salaries doing the more morally repugnant work - mining and chemical manufacturing, big finance and HFT, pharma, automotive, credit and collections - which draws in the most talented people to apply their talents in the worst ways.
You're constantly asked to sell out your principles for a paycheck/debt relief, or the most invasive and obnoxious applications of technology. You're never going into business for yourself to challenge a corporate behemoth or pursuing public work that both benefits people and pays well. You're never going into activism or politics without a corporate paymaster.
Ever notice how many SCOTUS judges and Senators are in the Federalist Society or from the Heritage Foundation relative to the Sierra Club or the ACLU? A big part of that is simply about the money.
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Here's a fun thing about student loans: we have stupidly high tuition thanks to CA governor Reagan and president Nixon wanting to reduce the number of students protesting against the Vietnam War. Of course the excuse they used was to balance the budget. This is just one more in a long line of things that Reagan and Nixon ruined in this country for decades.
https://12ft.io/https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/
Also, the real reason school vouchers were pushed was to backdoor segregation after Brown v Board of Education desegregated schools.
Here's the original since 12ft.io looks a little weird on mobile. https://www.forbes.com/sites/raymondpierce/2021/05/06/the-racist-history-of-school-choice/
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AI garbage, get that weak shit outta here
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20 gallons of water, gone
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The wealthier you are, the greater the expectation that others will serve you.
Remember the lords and peasants system? We actually haven’t moved on from that just given it a new coat.
Yup. We had a couple moments but we never exploited them to prevent capitalists from turning themselves into nobles in all but name.