Monday, June 24, 2019

PANDER BEAR

I paid off my student loans, Stalinist.  So unless your "plan" includes sending me a six-figure check or picking up my current credit card debt (because why should one kind of debt have a priority over any other kind of debt) or both, you can kiss my ass, old man.

Two days before the first Democratic presidential debates, Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday will unveil legislation canceling all $1.6 trillion of student debt held by about 45 million Americans.

Sanders will announce the legislation along with its House sponsors, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar and Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, CNN reported.

“In a generation hard hit by the Wall Street crash of 2008, it forgives all student debt and ends the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation to a lifetime of debt for the ‘crime’ of getting a college education,” Sanders said in remarks prepared for delivery at a news conference.

UPDATE: Bernie?

2 comments:

unreconstructed rebel said...

My son & nephew have each disposed of fairly hefty college debt (one law school, one medical) thru discipline & hard work.

Where is the Puritan ethic when you really need it?



[ Your robot-buster seems to have gotten over the Blues win. ]

Katherine said...

Co-sponsored by Ilham Omar, who appears to have entered into a sham marriage to scam the student loan program with her brother.