Young Americans are piling the blame for their student debt balances on conservatives, according to a poll by Generation Lab provided exclusively to Axios.
Young Americans are piling the blame for their student debt balances on conservatives, according to a poll by Generation Lab provided exclusively to Axios.
Yep. Congress gave the U.S. Secretary of Education the right to do it. But the terrorist party and their illegitimate puppets in SCOTUS decided that, no, a Constitutional law passed by Congress was not valid because… reasons. Can’t let those “libs” ever enact something that is popular, fair, legal, and beneficial…
So yes, everyone should blame SCOTUS and the GOP because they are solely responsible for putting us all in this horrible position.
I’m borderline on this. At some point Trump (or someone like him) will be back in power.
The law is intended to be used during an emergency for: “waiv[ing] or modify[ing] any statutory or regulatory provision”
If you read that literally, it means that Trump could literally make the provision say absolutely anything during an unrelated emergency. Clearly that isn’t the intent.
I’m all for student loan forgiveness… but I mainly blame congress for this. They wrote a crap ambiguous law which SCOTUS needed to determine the bounds of.
Low education take… Learn how the constiution works and spending power.
Also… If your beloved party wanted to do this… Why did they not do so when they controlled both house and presidency?
Asking for a friend.
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“Low education take”
-Someone with loads of education
Constitution vests spending power with Congress of the US. When Biden decided to use executive power to what is essentially exercise in spending, he over stepped constitution. When it was drafted, he knew it and he was briefed on it by white house counsel, they still decided to proceed. Maybe he really wanted to do something but it was limp dick attempt… but the base won’t question that, fine. What about congress not doing anything? They could have do it, they had the people and the authority to do so.
Congress passed a law authorizing the secretary of education to forgive debts. They willingly ceded it.
Do you even know why it was struck down? Only the state of Missouri really challenged it as they were the only ones with proof of ‘standing’. Turns out, MOHELA the federal loan servicer for Missouri didnt even file a suit when they would be the only ones affected. There was no standing for any states and the whole decision is based on and reeks of absolute partisan bullshit.
The decision is the supreme court essentially using a potemkin case to rewrite the law. Couldn’t even find a real plaintiff to use to stab college debtors in the back.
The senate was a 50/50 split for under 2 years. With 2 “democrats” barely willing to do anything. I fact one of them isn’t even a Democrat anymore. All of this during peak pandemic. Of course this would have had a chance if any one of those limp dick Republicans could for once do something that doesn’t just help the rich and enslave the poor.
It was always a bit of a stretch to have this work. I think Biden understood that there were two ways this could go. One possibility was that if his plan passed muster, a lot of young people saved money and were happy and would credit that directly to Biden. And if it got shot down (particularly if the SCOTUS did it), he knew the blame for that would go to Republicans. He wins either way.
I happen to think decreasing the debt load on students is a good idea, because there’s no way they can establish themselves if they have crushing debt when they start. But let’s make no mistake about it, Biden is using the Federal Treasury to buy votes. It’s been done before, though. I’m old enough to remember that George W Bush did a lot of vote buying, in the form of “tax rebate” checks directly to taxpayers. I think I bought a dryer with one of mine. I never did vote for him, though. I guess the vote buying doesn’t always work.
“Beloved party”
See, that’s one of the many many problems with you fucking idiots. We dont belove our party. Or idolize politicians. Or hang flags or buy wearable merchandise supporting fascists.
We just hate what you represent.
I like how you assume that I’m a proponent of another right-wing political party solely because I pointed out that a different one is a violent, fascist, criminal, terrorist organization.
I only see you trying to hold accountable the “right-wingers”
do you job equitably and nobody would complain…
Yes, because I am a leftist and there are no leftist political parties in the US. Anyone that thinks the DNC is remotely “leftist” has been swayed so far to the right that they can’t imagine there’s an entire world of politics on the other side of the DNCs milquetoast center-right authortiarian-lite platform.
Fine there is no leftist politics in the US…
So here we are circle jerking it online about left and right…
All right wing policies, ideals, and platforms are bad. The right is about consolidated vertical authority (monarchy, fascism, authoritarianism, etc) and the left is about distributed horizontal authority (democracy, socialism, egalitarianism, etc).
But in the US, where all politics is controlled by two ruling right wing parties, only one of those parties is SO FAR TO THE RIGHT that they pose an immediate existential threat to life, liberty, freedom, and societal stability.
I do not support the DNC, but I vehemently oppose the GOP. They are not the same. Don’t assume people support the DNC just because they are trying to prevent the GOP from establishing the Fourth Reich.
All right wing policies, ideals, and platforms are bad
Not if you are wealthy. Or a religious zealot. Or a racist. Or you’re just plain full of hate. Then, that’s the perfect party for you.
Well-said.
Just so you know, if you’re donating to the dnc or dga you’re in an indirect way contributing money to fringe right wing candidates.
Both agencies are in the habit of deliberately elevating those candidates with political advertising during the primary.
The idea is that they will swing republicans to their side in the general election, but i think it’s a dangerous and irresponsible game they’re playing.
You may agree with the practice or disagree (like myself, vehemently.) but everyone should at least know it’s being done.
My stance is a strong one. I consider the practice enabling the fascists they claim to fight
To do something equitably when reality is not equitable is disengineous and immoral
Bullshit, you don’t have any friends.