Comments by "Newbie Prepper" (@newbieprepper8451) on "Joe Biden Strikes Back!" video.

Obviously you don't know the difference between making a choice to put yourself in a situation and the government forcing you into a situation. The PPP loans were for what again?
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@pwilliam255 no, the PPP was mean for companies to keep their employees on their payroll, just that some companies misused those funds for stock buybacks, the same way that the 08 financial bailout was meant to start credit rolling and avert a financial collapse, but it was used to give execs massive bonuses.
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i would agree with you about needing teachers and doctors and engineers and lawyers, but this student debt forgiveness is not going to even put a dent in those peoples student debt. how much do you think 10-20k will benefit a doctor who has 750k in student debt, its a drop in the bucket, and if that doctor makes over 120k per year then this student debt will not be for them. this bill targets the useless people who went to get a useless gender studies and underwater basket weaving degree, things that will NOT benefit a country. i would be willing to pay higher taxes if it meant we would have more doctors and engineers, but instead we will have more philosophers who know the difference between a straw man and a red herring argument and who can tell you about the multitude of genders out there.
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@MCJSA and your explanation of what PPP was means nothing, just spewing giberish about grifters and Kushners. WHAT WAS PPP FOR?
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@MCJSA i went and googled it, paycheck protection program. thats where the government set up a program to help small businesses and their workers who were affected by the government forcing those businesses to shut down during the pandemic. now im not going to say that the program was not abused by people, every government program is, and if you want to argue about a program that was abused by some people we can argue all day long and we will wind up with shutting down welfare alltogether because people abuse that too. but please explain how a financial situation that the government forced on people (shutting down businesses) as in the debt incurred, equates to a situation like student debt where NO ONE was forced by ANYONE to incur that student debt?
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@MCJSA you oversimply it. it would be easy to criticize those people if they were in favor of forgiving loans to themselves for personal debt they incurred through their own willful actions, but hte situations are slightly different, and the criticizm should be different. those people should be criticized for taking loans in the first place that they miss used for their own benefits such as stock buybacks, but the whole situation itself was still caused by the government and completely out of their control (the pandemic and governments shutting businesses down). part of the blame for the PPP fiasco should be laid at the politicians feet themselves for not imposing better safeguards, its almost like a rerun of the 0-8 financial market crash and the subsequent bank bailouts.
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@iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606 no, the government didnt force the PPP loans on people, the government forced people to shut their businesses down and lay off all their workers, then the government came up with the PPP program to try and help people out of the financial jam that the government forced everyone into in the first place by shutting their jobs down. stob being obtuse.
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@iamjackscompletelackofsurp9606 of course they took it, did you at any point read anywhere in my comments that it was a godo thing or that it was right? NO YOU DIDNT. and yea, i will admit that it was wrong, that whole PPP plan was put together wrong, but then again, i would expect no less from the government than to put together a plan where the rich would benefit. so stop trying to spin this as me being in favor of it, im not.
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Yes yes, I completely agree, we should tax the poor to pay off rich peoples personal debts.
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what were the PPP loans for again?
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@billh.1940 the student debt can be paid off by anyone making more than say $60k per year.
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@billh.1940 i'll do you better, i feed my family on $40k, all by myself, single income house, and i just recently bought a house too. so off my $40k a year, im able to buy a house and feed my family, with $60k a year i could put that towards student loan debt. and im not the only one, plenty of people out there do it. you just have to be a little smarter than the average numbskull and stop wasting money on frivolous things. you dont have to get that appartment in that fancy part of town where the rent is 3 times as high as normal. last week, i was talking with a coworker, he was complaining that he is broke all the time. funny thing is, he used to live in my neighborhood where his rent was $1200 a month, and moved into a fancy neighborhood with nightlife where he pays $2700 a month rent, i asked him if the extra $1500 a month in rent was worth the fancy lifestyle, since he could easily take 1 train from my neighborhood to his new neighborhood and its a 10 minute train ride.
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@pwilliam255 well yea, that whole program was frought with fraud and waste and no oversight, it was implemented poorly, it should have been implemented directly to the employees themselves as an add on to their unemployment. i never said it was a great program and completely without abuse, but it was a program that was put forth to try and help people who were put into a financially dire situation by the government through absolutely no fault of their own, which is completely different from college students who willingly went in and signed on the dotted line to get something for their own personal benefit.
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@billh.1940 i live in Chicago, in the city, northside, along the lakefront, not even the burbs but the actual city itself. and yea, it does depend on the location, but seriously, my neighborhood is not a bad neighborhood, its right next to Loyola University chicago lakefront campus, my front window stares out onto the water literally, and not off in the distance, but literally right across the street. i make $40k a year, thats before taxes and other deductions, and still i was able to afford to save uop for a house and still pay my rent and bills and food and blah blah blah. the only thing my neighborhood lacks is the nightlife, but thats a 10 minute ride on the train, maybe 15 minutes at most. but the rents are 1/3 the price of those nightlife neighborhoods. my brother, he just bought himself a house last year, he makes about $55k a year, and he has student debt to pay for. one of my coworkers, her and her husband combined make about $90k a year, no college debt, but they have a small family, they just bought a house 2 years ago thats about $500k. my point is, people do it all the time, because it cant be done, but most people are under the delusion that they need that fancy $100k car and the $2k suits and that $1M mcmansion and eat out at fancy restaurants every day, most dont look at the guy who paid off his college loans and consider that maybe he had to live with 3 roommates in a small appartment and work 2 jobs and eat ramen to gete to where he is.
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@pwilliam255 i dont see what responsibility lies with the lenders themselves, its not like they are forcing anyone to get the loans they offer. perhaps the responsibility should lay with the borrowers who spend the money foolishly. as for the millitary contractors, that is a whole different subject with a whole different argument.
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@pwilliam255 first off yes, I am passed about companies getting any kind of bailout from taxpayers, and taxpayers should not be on the hook to bailout any company whatsoever, that also lays with the politicians that give these bailout to companies. As for being mad at those people who should have known better, yea, I was at the occupy Wallstreet protests, and it did nothing because a decade later we gave them another bailout in the form of PPP. do I think companies should be given money to pay off their debts, NO. Do I think people should be given grants to pay off their personal debts, AGAIN NO. But people like you think I wasn't mad about it back then and you make up excuses to allow it now, "wah wah the taxpayers were stuck with the bill last time so let's do it again this time and maybe we will do it once more next time" If you are passed about the PPP then you should be passed about this too, and wall street bailout and a whole slew of other things, instead of making excuses to try and justify bad behavior now.
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@pwilliam255 i dont care what qualifying requirements there are. and why is it the taxpayers fault that people got ripped off? should the government bust your door down and take everything from you to help me pay my mortgage because i feel like i got ripped off?
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@edwardkantowicz4707 yes, lets question some of those things, lets also question why these college students cant find jobs in thier chosen fields? with classes like gender studies and underwater basket weaving, i would have to wonder, which companies offer jobs in those fields? do those studies give a person any skills that a computer company would need? i mean are those relevant skills for designing microchips, or cars, or airplanes or maybe finding a cure for cancer? you need to first look at what thee students fields of study are, and then ask why they cant find a job in that field of study. i have a friend that went to college and majored in middle eastern history and egyptology. i know as a fact that IBM has no need for those skills, and St. Marys hospital doesnt need anyone with those skills either, Elon Musk is hiring engineers for his companies, not egiptologists or gender studies majors.
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@coolguyenglish4484 really? people can do a decent amount with an art or history degree? pount to which doctor cured what disease solely on his knowledge of history. point to the surgeon that saved a life because he knew how to paint. point to the engineer that built a skyscraper because he had knowledge of early Roman alcohol brewing techniques. perhaps the iphone came into existence because Dr. Jackson could decipher ancient stone tablets that allowed him to open a stargate or something? i am more than willing to admit that history and art ENRICH a civilization, but they do not ADVANCE a civilization, and we need more engineers than artists to advace a civilization.
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@coolguyenglish4484 as an added point, practically everyone at Starbucks is college educated with a history or art degree, at least the starbucks by my house, they accomplish plenty, such as getting me my coffee.
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@pwilliam255 you really believe all that BS you just wrote? you think the government is hiring 87,000 IRS agents and ordering banks to report on accounts that have transactions of over $600 per year to go after the multibillion dollar corporations? you think a company like apple or Walmart deal in chump change like that? i bet you think that stripper at the club really likes you too.
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@winninglifeyo and you think someone else should pay for what you find interesting? i know those film classes were not free, even though they were just elective courses. but since you have those fancy degrees, then you make a decent living, would you be OK with funding my personal hobbies since i find them "interesting"? here is an exerpt from a Forbes article on 10/11/21, "According to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), adults with a bachelor’s degree earn an average of $2.8 million during their careers, $1.2 million more than the median for workers with a high school diploma. In addition, at every additional level of education, workers tend to earn more than those with less education." so now, would you like to defend the position that we should tax the poor to pay for the personal debts of the rich?
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@billh.1940 i agree, we should NOT support sports, what are sports going to do to advance civilization? nothing compared to doctors and engineers.
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@johnchance7836 would you be in favor of demanding the government give me 20k of your tax money to help me pay off my mortgage? I don't care whose polls will rise, the government should not be in the position to spend $500 billion of taxpayers money to pay for people's personal debt that they accrued through their own personal choices. That's the estimated costs, $500 billion to the taxpayers, and you know if it's the government doing it then it's actually triple that.
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@chickensandwich8808 oh yes, i completely forgot the billions of nurses out there who studied (nursing) and are now working jobs in (nursing) which they hate but pay better and they want to work the jobs they are passionate about (nursing). acording to a Forbes article from 10/11/21 ":According to a new report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), adults with a bachelor’s degree earn an average of $2.8 million during their careers, $1.2 million more than the median for workers with a high school diploma. In addition, at every additional level of education, workers tend to earn more than those with less education." you are liteerally trying to make up excuses to defend the position of taxing the poor guy to pay off the rich guys personal debt. i agree with you, tax the poor to pay the rich.
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@johnchance7836 yea sure, if every dollar inveted in education gives an economic return of 7.30 then the US coffers should be overflowing and our national debt should be at ZERO instead of the tens of trillion it is at currently. you are stuck on a hill defending the position that taxing the poor and middle class to pay off the personal debts of the rich is a good thing, thats your motto, "tax the porr ot feed the rich".
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@johnchance7836 its also funny how you spew out numbers specifically put together by organizations betting on you not knowing what those numbers mean in order to push an agenda of their own that benefits no one but themselves. even Obamas chief economist said that this will raise inflation and will cost around $500+ billion.
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I'm glad you approve of paying off your debt and then taking on some rich guys debt to pay off too because somehow when they have more money on their pocket to buy that fancy house for themselves and that fancy car it will somehow magically help you. Can you volunteer to pay off my mortgage? It will help the exonomy.
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@hidesertroamer no, having a college educated workforce in the STEM fields is beneficial, most of the useless degrees out there are not in those fields, and those are the people whining and crying the most. who is going to benefit the country more, a barista making $15/hr with a gender studies degree or a doctor with a PHd pioneering new medicine? that barista will benefit from this student loan forgiveness, that doctor sure wont, because he makes too much. you are advocating for the poor to pay more taxes to pay off peoples personal debt that wont benefit a company or the state in any meaningful way.
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@erwaldox in Europe, if you paid for your NATO membership like you should have, then you would have something like student loan debt. its nice when European countries can chime in on how they have better social programs while ignoring that the US pays for their bills.
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