• Daft_ish@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    So the people who could get relief should abstain because the door is shut on any legislation as long as the GOP are in power?

    Awfully compassionate of you.

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      7 months ago

      No. That’s mighty presumptive of you. Play the game as the rules are. I’m suggesting loan forgiveness is a half-measure and it never should have been offered by politicians without solving the problem of unaffordable education. Otherwise, this isn’t a solution, it’s just a band-aid on a gaping still-bleeding wound that needs stitches. It doesn’t solve the problem, but it does create inequity.

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        7 months ago

        Cute analogy but here’s one for you. It’s not a bandaid it’s a tourniquet for a massive wound prior to needing full amputation.

        Politics isn’t a zero sum game. You need to cash in on the political goodwill before it evaporates.

        The relief isn’t being offered on the other side. The same side giving relief wants to legislate. Both actions are working towards a common goal.

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        7 months ago

        How is this down voted. You’re speaking facts lol. It’s a shitty bandaid solution

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          7 months ago

          Because it completely ignores the fact that it does solve the problem for a lot of people, and they don’t want to do it because it doesn’t help everyone.

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              7 months ago

              We could do both, but you asked why it was being down voted. The down voted text says that politicians never should have offered loan forgiveness. They explicitly said we shouldn’t do both.

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                I mean, i still agree. I rather have them put the same energy first in fixing the actual problem. And then the bandaid solution