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The lesson from Joe Biden’s student
loan forgiveness?

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Posted By: FormerDem, 8/27/2022 11:40:29 AM

Biden will get backlash from Republicans whether he does a little or a lot – so you might as well do a lot olitics is not like regular life; it’s worse. Things that are held as treasured virtues in the normal world are often political liabilities. We’ve all just been served with a shining example of how reflexive moderation – which is good when estimating measurements for recipes, or having drinks at a work party – becomes the tendency of a political fool. The wellbeing of countless Americans has long been sacrificed on the altar of moderation by the Democratic party, and all the Democrats win for it is maximal disgust.

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Kat Timpf said it is though Biden actually wanted to raise inflation. Possible that the "Senator from MBNA" is actually trying to help them raise consumer credit card interest rates? Has anyone calculated that effect ? Now they can charge 30% interest rates everywhere. Coincidence? Listen, pay off your credit card even if there is frost on the blankets.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: The Remnants 8/27/2022 11:50:18 AM (No. 1260865)
Here's one lesson: Never be responsible for your own actions. (They're learning from their powers-that-be elders.)
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Axeman 8/27/2022 11:52:16 AM (No. 1260867)
So this author says why be a fascist tyrant if you really want to be a communist tyrant. Don't just take little steps, go all in. You take the same flak but you at lease get the whole job finished all at once. If you are burning down a building, don't just throw matches at it. Use napalm. I guess this is the same strategy he will accept against his side too.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: westsnoop 8/27/2022 12:12:52 PM (No. 1260881)
Cloward-Piven
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Reply 4 - Posted by: mc squared 8/27/2022 12:30:24 PM (No. 1260891)
Folks, this is the Guardian. Like 'The Onion' without the sarcasm and humor. They're serious. Check out their main page: https://www.theguardian.com/us
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Bur Oak 8/27/2022 1:17:35 PM (No. 1260921)
The lesson is; reward elite deadbeats and punish the taxpaying middle class.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: downnout 8/27/2022 1:26:30 PM (No. 1260924)
Good Lord, I finished the second paragraph wondering where this fool gets his information. The Republican party is crushing the working man??? Seriously? Scribblers at the Guardian obviously get their news from the NYT, etc. Wake up, Mr. Nolan, come to Middle America (or as the elites call it “flyover country) and learn about the America that is being crushed by the idiocy of the Biden administration you so admire. You are in dire need of truth which you are not receiving in your snobby little circle of friends.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: lakerman1 8/27/2022 1:30:50 PM (No. 1260926)
Well, Hamilton Nobrains, you proved it with this silly article.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DaBigGuy 8/27/2022 1:34:54 PM (No. 1260928)
Wow. This writer has been dipping into Hunter's stash. What a clueless mindset.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: JHHolliday 8/27/2022 2:04:13 PM (No. 1260937)
OP is correct. I paid mine off some thirty years ago. The few times I use my card, I pay it off in full every month. Credit card debt is the most toxic of all debt. The CC companies are just legal loan sharks without the knee breaking. They prefer to destroy you financially instead.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: fourpmfox 8/27/2022 2:17:38 PM (No. 1260944)
The Guardian never disappoints or fails to amuse !!!!
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Reply 11 - Posted by: chance_232 8/27/2022 3:38:52 PM (No. 1260985)
Folks, THIS IS the mindset of most of the Democrat party. That should have been obvious to anyone with two functional brain cells when Obama care got rammed thru. What would have been unthinkable 20 years ago, is how Democrats buy votes today. If it was unthinkable last year, your a racist white supremacist homophobe for opposing it this year.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: earlybird 8/27/2022 4:11:08 PM (No. 1261005)
Why are we reading the far-Left UK Guardian on what’s going on here. The UK is a financial mess with the UK pound on its way down to a one to one v. the US dollar.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Timber Queen 8/27/2022 5:09:39 PM (No. 1261029)
#12 - It's useful to remind ourselves how the enemy thinks.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Subsuburban 8/27/2022 5:31:28 PM (No. 1261036)
"Hamilton Nolan is a writer based in New York who writes... we need... (p)ublic ownership of public goods for the public benefit. Public education, public healthcare, public transportation, public art. We are all the public, and helping the public is good. That’s called socialism, folks... Might as well stop shuffling along, and get right to it." Allow me to correct the errors: Hamilton Nolan is a communist democrat pimp, a scum spewing gargoyle of a bygone Marxist age, who has never worked a day in his misbegotten life, yet pretends to be a friend to the working man. Just like his idol and mentor, Karl Marx who sponged off the family of his sidekick, Engels and caused the deaths of untold millions. He belongs on the same trash heap of history.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Faithfully 8/27/2022 6:45:14 PM (No. 1261087)
If students are not given loans because the loner knows they are not going to be paid back, this means only wealthy parents can send their kids to university. What am I missing here?
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