If we cancel all student debt, ppl will want medical debt forgiven. If we cancel medical debt, they're going to want free healthcare. If we give them that, they'll want us to house the homeless. Then everyone's going to want a living wage. The whole society will fall apart.
The Origin Of Student Debt: #Reagan Advisor Warned Free College Would Create A Dangerous “Educated Class.”
In 1970 Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education. #RedditPolitics #education #student #loans #socialism
Student Loan Debt Is an American Malignancy Born of Ronald Reagan
Forgiving student debt is not a slap at anybody; it's righting a moral wrong inflicted on millions by Reagan and his morbidly rich Republican buddies. By @Thom_Hartmann
Neoliberalism Spares No Part of Our Commons, Not Even Public Libraries.
The GOP is threatening to turn Ben Franklin’s public libraries into corporate profit centers. It’s time for Americans to truly take our country back.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/neoliberal-parasites-now-want-public-1ce?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share
After $1.9 Trillion Giveaway to Rich, McConnell Calls Debt Relief for Working Class 'Slap in the Face.' #RedditPolitics
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/24/after-19-trillion-giveaway-rich-mcconnell-calls-debt-relief-working-class-slap-face
If we cancel all student debt, ppl will want medical debt forgiven. If we cancel medical debt, they're going to want free healthcare. If we give them that, they'll want us to house the homeless. Then everyone's going to want a living wage. The whole society will fall apart.
Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus
Policymakers created the student loan industry — and the debt crisis.
While they never intended for more than 45 million Americans to have this much debt, policymakers in the 1960s made fateful choices.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/05/policymakers-created-student-loan-industry-debt-crisis/?utm_source=reddit.com
Denying enslaved Black Americans access to education exiled them from a place in the nation. @hc_richardson #slavery #publiceducation
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-20-2021?r=1lh5w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&utm_source=twitter
The Origin Of Student Debt: #Reagan Advisor Warned Free College Would Create A Dangerous “Educated Class.”
In 1970 Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education. #RedditPolitics #education #student #loans #socialism
https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/
rosanna arquette and Bloomarosa liked Robert Reich @RBReich
Call me a radical lefty, but in addition to cancelling student debt we should make public higher education free.
Student Debt Is Evil & A Crime Against Our Nation.
Since the Reagan Revolution, student debt has crippled three generations of young Americans, totaling a $1.8 trillion drag on our economy that benefits nobody except GOP-supporting banksters. By @Thom_Hartmann https://hartmannreport.com/p/student-debt-is-evil-and-a-crime?r=1lh5w&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Student Loan Debt Is an American Malignancy Born of Ronald Reagan
Forgiving student debt is not a slap at anybody; it's righting a moral wrong inflicted on millions by Reagan and his morbidly rich Republican buddies. By @Thom_Hartmann
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/26/student-loan-debt-american-malignancy-born-ronald-reagan