• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Oh yes. so because I’m not obscenely rich, I don’t get to have a say in how my tax dollars are spent, or the effort elected officials put into solving problems?

    Ultimately he hasn’t forgiven any student loans that weren’t already supposed to be forgiven. the loan servicers used loopholes and gotchas to keep people indebted outside the spirit of the rules. many of those loans should have been forgiven back when Obama was in office. So you don’t get to make that argument either.

    This has been a known problem for two or three decades. He’s only taking small steps to resolve it because the people it affected are very close to getting their pitchforks and torches for it. (proverbally speaking.) he’s taken almost zero action to actually resolve the problem- which is that tuition is ridiculously expensive. that’s the problem he should be fixing. (while yes, also honoring contract obligations. and throwing the book at people who failed to do just that.)

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      8 months ago

      This has been a known problem for two or three decades

      And Biden wasn’t President for two or three decades.

      he’s taken almost zero action to actually resolve the problem

      Funny how you people started pitching a fit whenever anyone suggested reforming tuition rather than one-time handouts. But now that Biden has actually started doing the handouts, now you’re pitching a fit that he isn’t reforming tuition.

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        8 months ago

        Funny how you people started pitching a fit whenever anyone suggested reforming tuition rather than one-time handouts.

        I did what now?

        And Biden wasn’t President for two or three decades.

        He was VP for 8 years. Senator for 36 years prior to that. He has been part of federal politics and a leader in the DNC longer than I’ve been alive.

        He’s absolutely part of how we got here.