Two conservative groups are asking a federal court to block the Biden administration’s plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans for more than 800,000 borrowers.

Two conservative groups are asking a federal court to block the Biden administration’s plan to cancel $39 billion in student loans for more than 800,000 borrowers.

  • cdipierr@lemmy.world
    261·
    1 year ago

    My genx Brother in Law loves to bring up how he had to pay for college working a pressure washing and catering job. So that’s two part-time jobs. 🙄 Of course the idea of student loan forgiveness is outrageous to him.

    • robbotlove@lemmy.world
      43·
      1 year ago

      I don’t understand why they keep doing research on curing cancer. it wouldn’t be fair to my dad who died a couple years back. just not fair at all.

      • realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt
        81·
        1 year ago

        I don’t understand why they bailed out the banks in '08, it wasn’t fair to citizens who were in debt because their houses were underwater, just not fair at all.

        • foggy@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          tbh 15 years later I wish they let the banks fail. It would have been a pretty terrible 10 years, but I think by now we’d have a functioning world better suited for today’s generations/problems.

          • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
            21·
            1 year ago

            Don’t buy into the propaganda. There was never going to be a big crash. They would have taken a small hit and FDIC would have insured every deposit. The big banks had already unloaded the mortgage backed securities into pension funds.

            But but what about Lehman Brothers? Yeah what about them? The CEO alone took a +600 million dollar bonus they year it was going “bankrupt”. They can’t stay open but gave him over half a billion? I don’t think so. Bankrupt for normal people means rice for dinner for years, for the big banks it means they just don’t feel like “working” anymore.

            What should have happened is jailing the lot of them, a foreclosure freeze across the US for a year, replenishment of Pensions from AIG and Goldman and Lehman executive salaries, and finally a requirement that everyone that is to be evicted be given a court appointed attorney who has the same case load as the bank’s attorney.

    • Tacos_y_margaritas@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      I am also Gen X with 2 teenagers. My college tuition was roughly $3-5k per year. For my kids, college tuition will be $9k/year. I have no problem with student loan forgiveness. College tuition has gotten out of control and student loans are holding younger generations back.