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I’m old enough to remember when the neocons were all in on executive power. Spend trillions of dollars to invade another country because we don’t like the guy in charge? CHECK!
Spend a fraction of that amount to release millions of Americans from indentured servitude to a predatory student loan system? TYRANNY!
This is my now almost weekly reminder that the one tide that is historically proven to lift all boats is education (not trickle-down economics, despite the GOP’s long-suffering devotion …
Only we're not spending money to increase education, we're spending money to bail kids who are already high-income out of their education bills. A lot of those kids attended college in the first place because they came from households of economic privilege to begin with. What's next? Bail out all the doctors and attorneys because they have grad school debt?