Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Student loan forgiveness - whether or good or bad - doesn't have a damn thing to do with an immediate stimulus bill for the coronavirus. For millions, the student debt just sits there, putting a weight on their credit rating or a weight on mom and dad's credit cards.

 

We're two philosophical ships passing in the night.

 

South Dakota has a 43% positive rate on its Covid tests. I would submit that this is evidence that the Governor there isn't handling this intelligently. This should not be a controversial stance, given that her policy is to ignore it until it goes away.

 

You really don't know many current student-debt holders, do you?

 

The Dems put that wish list on McConnell's desk months before the existing Covid measures expired. He refused to take any action whatsoever, whether to negotiate changes in that bill or to offer a Republican counter proposal until ten days before that expiration. Since it was a last minute bill, not something that was intended to be a counter proposal, it was a "take it or leave it" from the majority. At a minimum, this is an "A plague on both their houses" situation, and I don't feel it unreasonable to put more blame on McConnell than anyone. He knew damn well that putting out a partisan bill at the last moment was not an approach intended to get a bipartisan bill done and passed.

 

With you passing on the right.

 

just trolling the waters

 

Philosophically, your right to exercise your freedom extends exactly up to the point at which that exercise begins to injure me, and no further.

 

Actually, I do. It's called their parents. If you don't think parents pay for their kids' colleges - both in putting money aside and then picking up whatever's left over when the graduate degree kicks in - you're off.

Higher education is a racket. I feel awful for anyone taken by it. But I don't think the student-debt forgiveness solves anything. You wanna strike back at academia? Make them give every person with a certain amount of debt that many free credit hours at any state school they wish. Turn it into education welfare, and watch academia howl then. That's about when you know you've hit the mark.

 

Our definition of injury is probably different. Especially on one topic in particular.

 

I've never known anyone whose parents assumed their children's student loan debts. Not when I was done with school and not other people I've met in the many years since. I've known a lot of people that don't pay on their student loans and the amounts keep climbing. Even though they were manageable. Today, they're not necessarily manageable amounts.