wow! he canceled 8% of the student debt in convoluted, means-tested policies that only benefit 10% of those who were promised debt relief a year ago? what a hero! some of these plans have people continue making payments but it being forgiven in 20-25 years. absolute chefs-kiss of liberal policy.

The situation for kids and families at the border is vastly improved over what it was under Trump

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  • WafflesTasteGood [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    He didn't cancel shit. He had just existing debt forgiveness programs prioritized and pushed for them to process the applications sooner.

    All the cancelled debt would've been cancelled regardless of anything Biden did.

      • WafflesTasteGood [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        As far as I could tell it's all through the same public service loan forgiveness program that's existed for years.

        • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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          8 months ago

          I have to preface this with a fervent Fuck Joe Biden

          but

          my husband's loans were totally forgiven last fall, years earlier than expected, just on a normal IDR/IBR plan, and (based on payment history) I think mine will probably get the same treatment later this year

          We don't have public service jobs, just average capitalist wage-slave bullshit until we started doing our small engine stuff full-time last summer, so Derp Brandon did something for us.

          Was it nearly enough? Can I actually afford my house or groceries or medical expenses? No, absolutely not, Joe Bidet hasn't helped me very much. But he did take a few tens of thousands of debt off our back, which I guess deserves acknowledgement.

          Tbqh, Trump's elimination of the health insurance mandate helped us a fuckton more. We were getting absolutely fucked on premiums for insurance with deductibles so high we couldn't afford to use it at all.

      • BobDole [none/use name]
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        8 months ago

        How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

        • Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72