Americans have always believed in a "hand up," not a permanent "hand out"...

Good one, Dr.S....😁

I’m sure that is buried in there somewhere. Maybe an art grant of a few million.

I believe it.
We've all seen hunters art there's no way it's legit.

As always vBackman, you hit the nail on the head with this one!

Forgiveness of college debts is the one that just blows my mind. What if you, as a student, worked your ass off in school, maybe working full time or close to full time while you went to school full time, or close to full time, just so you could graduate debt free?

How would you feel about your tax money going to those who took the easier path?

Or, if you're the parent, and you are of modest means, so for years you scraped and saved every penny so your child could go to school and graduate debt free?

I suppose those people will be thrilled to see their tax dollars going to pay the loans for those who took the easier path.

And that's just the normal human reaction element. What about the class warfare this will likely cause? AOC was quoted as saying this, in support of govt payback for student loans for some: "Entire generations of working class kids were encouraged to go into more debt under the guise of elitism."

Typically demented thinking! But it gets worse when we stop to consider that tax money, from all of us, would be going to pay these back. What if you never went to college, but are doing just fine in a trade position, or some kind of blue collar job? Why should your money go to pay off the kids of the rich liberal elite's student loans? I'm pretty sure a person would feel some animosity if they had to subsidize for the schooling of relatively rich liberals' kids.

It's just a bad idea all around. When you teach people that one of the first serious things they do as an adult, ends up with a free financial pass, you're just setting them up to fail. If they really wanted to go to college without going into debt, they could have chosen to do so.

Exactly....👍👍

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Education and housing? Oh no, how dare they.

College costs forgiven for some while the rest of us or our parents paid the bill? Libs pick & choose pet projects & this is another one that is not thought through. Housing as a freebie for some? Gee, that really takes the incentive away to save & do well. You like everyone to be equally unsuccessful. Throw in all the illegals and bankrupt the country. Gosh, I am so grateful not to think like a liberal...

They want people's children getting "free" college because more of them can be brainwashed.

Anyone who thinks that college kids will do exactly what they've been told to do has clearly never been to one.

So very true. People that are looking for "FREE" are not incentivized to accomplish anything productive for themselves or the world at large. They are literately coasters, expending creative energy to find more "FREE".

As I mentioned to our favorite pet Troll who spoke of inaccessibility:

Inaccessibility to an objective is a PRODUCT of one's mindset, or one's limited creative thinking, or expense of energy.

People that are stuck in the rat race might have a whacked perception of their hierarchy of needs. That's the first issue to address. After doing so, reaching goals becomes much simpler.

Don't look at me, I wanted college to be free for you in the first place. You're the one that voted to charge yourself and your parents.

The 35% renting will cause housing market prices to surge as they will care not about price when getting a loan they will default upon when they have to make responsible choices with money. They will be foreclosed on & the housing market market will crash. But for those responsible borrowers, they will continue to pay high house payments like Californians do, because their prices were set by the freeloaders. In the end only 65% of Americans are responsible enough to make a house payment each & every month without fail.

I have never ever ever ever once known a person making the transition from rented to ownership to do so on anything more than the most affordable house possible. This is pure fear mongering on your part, portraying people as irresponsible for no other reason than because the house market has become inherently inaccessible.

Great story, Cryptic, the American dream.

What the hell does this nonsense have to do with anything we're talking about?

The wife and I bought our house at the height of a housing boom. We went from renting and while we didn't buy a mansion for our first house, we did okay. We're on our third property now (having sold the other two) and almost have it paid off.

So yes, it can be done. When you tell people it can't, you're doing them an incredible disservice. You really should be ashamed for being a dream killer, thesis.

We have a lot in common, Elvis. Yes, it can be done and the doers do it and the don'ts, don't. I did not marry my husband for his money as he certainly didn't have much. He worked his way through college with his parents helping as much as they could with three other children. We have ended up with properties from California to Virginia and in between. All are paid off. As you say, Democrats do a huge disservice to tell people they can't and consequently keep them down. Victimhood mentality has become rule of thumb these days. Hand outs and set-asides are the norm. Incentive is gone if your college debt is paid off and you are handed a bunch of money that you did not work to make in the first place. We are all equals at the gate....what we choose to do with it is up to us. It didn't sound like Cryptic was a wealthy man, nor you, nor my husband. You just made your money the old-fashioned way, you earned it.

I don’t want college. But me a Corvette.