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What a joke, we just wasted 2 years on an empty promise that was doomed to fail from the start and now all the people who have been waiting and suffering are ge

by bavell 3y ago

What a joke, we just wasted 2 years on an empty promise that was doomed to fail from the start and now all the people who have been waiting and suffering are getting nothing. All we get now is a blame-game of finger-pointing instead of any solutions. We got teased and led on for years. There is no alternative plan to the one proposed, all eggs in one basket on such a monumentally important issue. What a great victory!

rqtwteye 3y ago
"All we get now is a blame-game of finger-pointing instead of any solutions. " That's how modern US politics works. They have given up on actually solving problems a long time ago. And people are stupid enough to buy into this nonsense.
- EA-3167 3y ago
  Even a cursory study of human history reveals that this is how politics usually works, and always has. People are fundamentally the same as we've been for thousands of years, so the means to manipulate us are fundamentally similar.
dragonwriter 3y ago
> There is no alternative plan That doesn't seem to be accurate: a new debt relief regulatory effort was initiated today, plus a repayment “on ramp” that limits the impact of ending the pause, plus a new income-based time-limited repayment program that will have low income borrowers paying $0. (The last of which was, IIRC, announced in principal around the same time as the forgiveness program, but not finalized in detail.) https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-cardona-statement-supreme-court-ruling-biden-administrations-one-time-student-debt-relief-plan https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-cardona-sta... Regulatory notice on the first part is here: https://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/2023/negregpublichearingannouncement.pdf https://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/2023/n...
EA-3167 3y ago
Welcome to politics, empty promises to the gullible have been a mainstay for thousands of years.
sanderjd 3y ago
How have they been suffering, when loan payments have been paused this whole time?

by bavell 3y ago

rqtwteye 3y ago

"All we get now is a blame-game of finger-pointing instead of any solutions. " That's how modern US politics works. They have given up on actually solving problems a long time ago. And people are stupid enough to buy into this nonsense.

EA-3167 3y ago
Even a cursory study of human history reveals that this is how politics usually works, and always has. People are fundamentally the same as we've been for thousands of years, so the means to manipulate us are fundamentally similar.

dragonwriter 3y ago

> There is no alternative plan That doesn't seem to be accurate: a new debt relief regulatory effort was initiated today, plus a repayment “on ramp” that limits the impact of ending the pause, plus a new income-based time-limited repayment program that will have low income borrowers paying $0. (The last of which was, IIRC, announced in principal around the same time as the forgiveness program, but not finalized in detail.) https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-cardona-statement-supreme-court-ruling-biden-administrations-one-time-student-debt-relief-plan https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-cardona-sta... Regulatory notice on the first part is here: https://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/2023/negregpublichearingannouncement.pdf https://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/reg/hearulemaking/2023/n...

EA-3167 3y ago

Welcome to politics, empty promises to the gullible have been a mainstay for thousands of years.

sanderjd 3y ago

How have they been suffering, when loan payments have been paused this whole time?