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Marcia Fierro's avatar

SINCE Trump is spewing OUT to young students that he has been BETTER to them than their PARENTS! He SHOULD pay OFF their STUDENT LOAN DEBTS! AMERICA ✅️ ⚠️ 🇺🇲 treat them LIKE he does Ivanka, Barron. Don Jr, Eric, and all his other SIDEBAR family members! Put the TAXPAYERS MONEY 💰 🤑 💸 where their MOUTHS are, DEVOURING AMERICA'S DOLLARS Quick Fast and in a hurry! for the BILLIONAIRES BENEFITS!

From the redwood forests's avatar

ICE agents get student loans forgiven but not public servants to whom this was promised?! What proportion of ICE agents even went to college?

Protect the Vote's avatar

The Filibuster: Republican Tool To Defy WE the People

The word filibuster was first used to describe lawless Caribean pirates but in the 1850s, Americans used the word for private military fighters in Latin America before applying it to legislative blocking.

What began in 1806 as a procedural issue, gradually evolved as a legislative obstructionist tactic that was used by southern conservatives to prevent civil rights legislation because they were in the minority. In the Civil Rights era it was a way the minority could obstruct the majority opinion.

This in essence has become the major legislative tool of the fascist Republican party of today.

Over at Zeteo John Harwood talks with Ben Wikler(bit.ly/45g3eGU) about getting rid of the filibuster because it’s destroying the electorate’s confidence in the ability of a democratic government to do the work for WE the People which is what its function is in the first place. Getting rid of the filibuster would help begin the resurrection of a government that is more representative of its citizens so that the system is not rigged in favor of the minority.

As Wikler points out, it takes all of US, WE the People to show up and vote in Democrats to change the system so it works for all of US. So let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work America.

Tim_TEC's avatar

The only good thing about the filibuster is it stopped Trump from ramming thru the Suppression Voting on Women bill (for now). But if not for Manchin and Sinema and the filibuster, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act would be law right now.

Roger Poston's avatar

Initially, if I remember correctly, student loans were government sponsored and affordable. As usual, banks and their lackey Representatives and Senators sought to out source the program. That is when the interest began to escalate. Colleges and universities, not to be outdone, embraced the loans, increased tuition and ultimately partnered with lending institutions. The results are students with debts of $250,000+ in many professional programs, Medicine being worse and astronomical. Undergraduate loans take decades to payoff and given wage stagflation, make repayment more difficult if not impossible. Making matters worse, one must consider if a college degree is worth the cost, time, and making the recipient more employable. Colleges and universities have many degrees which are purely boutique.

AI, as with many of the computer assisted curricula will be used to eliminate tenured faculty and increase the use of low paid lecturers or adjunct faculty. It will all be about the money, not good education. There is an old Information Technology saying, GIGO (Garbage In Garbage Out). That will play out with this technology too. An often overlooked solution is the expansion of the Technical College. Most are actually the jewels in state education systems. They provide technical and craftsman skill that are needed and in less time. It is time we take education seriously in our country. Everyone does not need a liberal arts education, but everyone needs training and skills to support themselves, their families, and their communities.

Marcia Fierro's avatar

WELL! Trump wants to privatize EVERY DAMN LOAN in AMERICA ✅️⚠️🇺🇲 with BILLIONAIRES driving that STUDENT LOAN DEBTS! with EXTREMELY HIGH interest rates! KICKBACKS his middle name!!That's WHY he started SPEWING that TOTAL BS about he is better to them than their PARENTS! keep watching 👀