Now's the part where you say

"You're right, I will do better next time"

Instead of being arrogant.

I mean, that's what a good person does when proven wrong at least.

"Hey guys, we have no actual solution to the underlying problem, but here is a conveniently-timed freebie for one of society's more privileged groups (which just happens to be one of our core constituencies) that will be debt-financed and ultimately paid for by poorer, less privileged folks. Also, screw you if you did 'the right thing' and already paid off your student loan debt. We the Democrats do not reward such behavior."

That's not nearly as easy to message. And so is a failure

Joe 2024

Well, the easy, populist message they put out just blew up in their face, so I don't know if this whole episode can be considered a "great political move".

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 24 2022 01:32pm

Forgiving student loans is super popular.

So it was pretty good.

Republicans are now anti small amounts of loan forgiveness which is a pretty extreme position

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Oct 24 2022 01:36pm

Is it? A very recent poll from a month ago says otherwise:
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meetthepressblog/voters-split-student-loan-forgiveness-new-poll-shows-rcna48490



Unsurprisingly, opinions split according to who would or would not personally benefit from this policy:


If you have a more recent or higher quality poll which says otherwise, I'm open to hear it. Anyway, according to this NBC poll, Biden's student loan forgiveness plan isn't really popular with the overall public and deeply underwater with independents as well as the majority of people who don't have student loans.




But okay, apparently the expectation that people actually pay back the debt they voluntarily incurred is nowadays considered to be "a pretty extreme position".

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Oct 24 2022 02:30pm

pay up you lazy dipshits with your trash degrees

10 minutes of research could have revealed that piling up 100k in debt for a dead end 50k a year job is not the best idea

why would a young plumber making 100k a year now pay for the shitty decisions of other people? they could have done this as well

gtfo

Man you've devolved into a republican talking point dispenser at this point. You used to at least pretend to be neutral. Now you just repeat everything uncritically.

Its much easier to pass political posturing social programs by executive order when you know they will get struck down as unconstitutional. Democrats don't benefit from student loans being forgiven, they benefit from the perception they are forgiving student loans. They figured out how to get their cake and eat it too. Joe Biden signed that EO with full knowledge, at least as much as he can be cognizant despite his dementia, that it would never possibly survive a court challenge. The president can't just wave a hand and conjure up trillions of dollars of appropriations. It was bad enough when presidents were trying to short circuit congress on relatively tame and small appropriations and still getting struck down, but trillions? Lmao.