Comments by "KGS" (@kgs2280) on "Biden Cancels $1.2 Billion In Student Loan Debt—Here’s Who Will Benefit" video.

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  4.  @blksbth1  I just find it interesting because I, personally, have no similar resentment toward either the students or the government for the loan forgiveness, even though I also had to struggle for years to pay mine off. I don’t ever feel that I have been cheated because the government does something beneficial for people now, and for the country for the reasons I’ve stated above, just because I now have to pay, what? a couple of dollars (at most) each year so that they can have that benefit. (Just as it’s been estimated that each person in the country would be taxed something like $32 per year for everyone in the country to have free healthcare). To me, it’s completely worth it in order to ensure sure that perhaps three or four people wouldn’t die because of my few tax dollars). Especially when you consider how many very, very wealthy people do not even have to pay taxes at all after they earn a certain amount (which would keep them very, very wealthy anyway), and they don’t have to pay into Social Security once they’ve paid a certain amount (again leaving them very, very wealthy), and they can, and do still collect Social Security benefits. And there are a whole lot of taxes that we all have to pay whether we support the programs that money pays into or not (like unnecessary wars and a whole host of pet projects of the politicians. But we get no say in that, either. Most of the time, we’re never even told about them. So, I don’t understand why we’re fighting so hard about this one program, except that it’s part of the Republican plan (see Project 2025) to gut education so that it can be essentially segregated and with the white kids (primarily) receiving Christian indoctrination in their church-based Charter Schools, and poor or black kids can just be satisfied with low-quality state-sponsored basic education. Always look at WHO is pushing the campaigns against something, and look into their real motivations for wanting you (us) riled up about one particular program.
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  6.  @blksbth1  What percentage of students do you suppose major in gender studies? And there just might be well-paying jobs waiting for them when they graduate. And there is no such thing as “underwater basket weaving” courses in any U.S. university anywhere. That’s an old made-up trope from the late ‘60s created to defend the cutting of education funds. It’s right up there with Reagan’s BS story about the “Welfare Queen”. Try coming into the current Century at least. And who are you to decide what university subjects students are “allowed” to take? The universities themselves have boards that make the decisions about what courses are to be offered. I didn’t make the wisest decisions, either, and I also paid back every cent of my student loans, and I’m not looking for any “reward”. My reward is having a good education, after having learned things like critical thinking and logic, as well as a lot of other things. Plus, I would much rather live in a country with an educated population who can at least make intelligent choices for the people who run our country, instead of the Republican plan to keep everyone uneducated, uninformed and willing to do whatever their Party tells them to do and who to vote for without even questioning those who are running; in other words, a country of sheep. That’s the kind of populace who doesn’t know any better than to prefer an authoritarian regime rather than the Democracy our country was founded on, and who thinks someone who’s only qualification is being a “celebrity” means they’ll be a good President.
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