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Loan forgiveness is a very specific redress. To point out the obvious, it can’t help people who didn’t go to college because, uh, you had to go to college to get the loans.
The minute the standard is invoked, it is a red herring.
Loan forgiveness also isn’t an anti-poverty program. It kinda says it right there in the name. If you want one of those, I have GREAT news for you: you can propose or support an anti-poverty program.
Loan forgiveness also isn’t an anti-poverty program. It kinda says it right there in the name. If you want one of those, I have GREAT news for you: you can propose or support an anti-poverty program.
You can actually do that. I do it all the time.
People smell like they’re losing the PR war on this one. Good.
Loan forgiveness is the “our bad” of social policy. We really, truly screwed the pooch with the whole loans and 4profits thing. Say “our bad” and move on. Let’s leave this relic in the 20th century.
Do white people have “my bad” in their cultural repertoire? Jeez, I’m delirious today. Probably should have eaten...
“My/our bad” is really great. It can be misused, obviously. But when paired with appropriate action, it does some good work.
Anyway, if we don’t do it or something even grander, we will be bogged down by this for a political generation. Hit the button. Get on a track.
