What Are Your Thoughts on Student Loan Forgiveness?

[Eric the Green]

(09-06-2022, 03:06 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: The boomers here all seem to hate conservative boomers more than anyone else, so I don't think y'all will mind this, but a lot of people don't realize how many boomers basically threatened their children with college, essentially saying "You will go to college at 18 or you're on your own in this shit economy....oh, and btw, that means you'll have to take out $70,000 in debt to pay back", then those same boomers will bitch about "why should I have to pay for your dumb course in underwater basket weaving?!" when they had just a decade ago said "it doesn't matter what your major is, just "find your passion" and you'll never have to work a day in your life!".

The blue collar workers, entrepreneurs and other more practical types who carved out their own path have a right to be pissed at this. The boomer parents who forcibly shoved college down their children's throats do not.

How many boomers forced their kids to go to college? Do we really know? Can we not "realize" something, when it's just you saying so from your own experience, rather than verified stats? And can such charges about what some boomers "said" even BE verified?

The high charges for college and student loans are what everyone should be pissed at. There are other high charges we should be pissed at too, of which the high cost of housing is first on the list.

And Republicans are using the current high gas prices to claim Biden is not managing the economy. If Biden had enough Democrats in congress, he could force the gas companies to pay excess profits taxes and refund the money to consumers. That would fix inflation at its source. But that goes against the neoliberal Reaganomics creed that government is the problem.

"in the United States, oligarchs maximize their wealth and keep it, using the “democratically elected” government to shape policies and laws favorable to the interests of their foxy class. They bamboozle the people by insisting... that all of us have the “freedom” to create a business in the “free” marketplace, which implies that being hard up is our own fault.

In the Nordic countries, on the other hand, democratically elected governments give their populations freedom from the market by using capitalism as a tool to benefit everyone. That liberates their people from the tyranny of the mighty profit motive that warps so many American lives, leaving them freer to follow their own dreams—to become poets or philosophers, bartenders or business owners, as they please.

Maybe our politicians don’t want to talk about the Nordic model because it shows so clearly that capitalism can be put to work for the many, not just the few."
https://www.thenation.com/article/archiv...heres-why/

Maybe if we followed the Nordic model instead of insisitng the USA is the best, we might be able to do what "boomer paresnts" advised their children to do and "follow their passions." We can't, because the USA is the WORST developed country in the world.

It doesn't have to be. It's founding documents offer the potential to become the best, and have inspired the world. We could "live up to the true meaning of our creed" as Martin Luther King said. But we have to vote for it.

http://philosopherswheel.com/freemarket.html