US Politics: Bike tricks

cerebus

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So a larger scale election interference, with the aid of the FBI, than that of the 2016 Russian one.
I don't know if this is a silver lining, but I assumed the tech companies did it by themselves for ideological reasons or whatever. If its just the FBI it's easier to fix.
 

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I enrolled at university in 1997, the year before the UK government took away student grants. Meaning the students who came after me were going to be saddled with more debt and higher cost for the same education. Now that’s what I consider grossly unfair.
Nothing is wrong with debt if you are getting it to pay off a decent degree.

Government provided student loans are one of the few uses of taxpayer money I don't mind, because it is revenue neutral in the medium term ( when people pay back their debt) and revenue positive on the long term.

That breaks when:
1) You fund worthless degrees
2) You bail out student loans.

Why can't a plumber earning less than $125000 a year get $10000 off their truck payment?
 

cerebus

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Nothing is wrong with debt if you are getting it to pay off a decent degree.

Government provided student loans are one of the few uses of taxpayer money I don't mind, because it is revenue neutral in the medium term ( when people pay back their debt) and revenue positive on the long term.

That breaks when:
1) You fund worthless degrees
2) You bail out student loans.

Why can't a plumber earning less than $125000 a year get $10000 off their truck payment?

I love when you try to out-socialist me like I'm just gonna see the absurdity of my position. You know that I actually just believe that higher education should be free or at least heavily subsidized, right? And that the insane cost of education in the US is a sign of a broken society, and student loan forgiveness is just a band-aid on a much bigger root problem. But at least it's something.
 
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