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Student Debt Doesn’t Vanish With Age. Older Debtors Protest With a “Knit-In.” (truthout.org)

submitted 1 day ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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With rocking chairs and cross-stitch kits, protesters outside the Department of Education demand debt relief from Biden.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

ironically if should if your younger. last I knew they had it disapear after a few decades of income adjusted payments.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Use those knitting needles more effectively

[–] knightmare1147 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This just in, CEO found with fatal knitting injury

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

It was an accident, I swear. He fell into my knitting needle 10 times

[–] AngryCommieKender 1 points 1 day ago

As chopsticks?

[–] Bbbbbbbbbbb 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And how many people dont realize Biden tried and got locked out from Republicans sueing debt relief.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

he did get some things through that improved the situation somewhat.

[–] Plastic_Ramses 6 points 1 day ago

A very large portion of people on lemmy seem to think that.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This isn't progressive, this just alienates working class voters. Obligatory: not American, but as a poor (European) person that didn't get to go to uni because I and my family were too poor I'd be absolutely pissed if now I had to pay my bosses' (and all the other privileged people) debt. Don't get me wrong, student credits are a most predatory and awful thing, you should make it illegal but the debt people had contracted shouldn't be payed off by the taxpayer (read workers, the rich aren't taxed).

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I didn't get any assistance, so people in a country I don't live in shouldn't either! I'd rather no one get assistance than potentially provide assistance to some people I don't think deserve it."

followed by

"Student debt is awful and should be illegal but, while it was legal you agreed to it, so 🤷🏽‍♂️ unless only the rich pay it off."

The first has big "drug testing for government benefits" energy. Are you sure you're not from Florida? This has DeSantos smell all over it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 hours ago

Europe's Florida you could say. So you think that 'people that struggle should struggle even more to aid people that aren't struggling nor have struggled ever as much as them' and you think that's somehow fair and if the struggling people complaint they are just selfish assholes, did I understand your position correctly?