Democrats Think Not Giving Free Money For Student Debt Could Hurt Their Midterms

Such is the state of Democratic Party politics, where they have to give oodles of money away in order to get people to go to the ballot box

Progressives warn inaction on student debt could hurt Democrats in midterms

While the Biden administration has once again extended the pause on student loan repayments, some progressives have said that unless more is done, it could cost Democrats in the midterms in 2022.

The progressive wing of the Democratic Party is sounding the alarm over potentially losing voters and subsequent races if the campaign promise of canceling student loan debt goes unfulfilled by the Biden-Harris administration.

Before the pause was extended, several prominent Democrats voiced their concerns about payments starting again and how it could cost them the midterms.

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., tweeted, that “forcing millions to start paying student loans again” will cost Democrats the midterms.

Perhaps they shouldn’t have been promising to cancel the debt of people who legally signed for it, knowing that it had to be repaid, particularly when so many used the money to get worthless degrees. No one is worrying about those with home loans, auto loans, or other loans. Why is it necessary to take care of those who signed to take the student loans as adults? Just because they are demanding it? If it causes Democrats problems in the midterms, that’s the fault of the Dem elites, who should have been telling those people “you took it, you pay for it. Stop ordering food delivery every day. Reduce your expenses.”

The total amount of student loan debt in the U.S. currently stands at $1.75 trillion.

The average student debt right now is $37,693. In 2020 dollars, debt in 2001 was $24,680. Perhaps Democrats should be looking at ways to lower the cost of college, which has skyrocketed due to Democratic policies at Democratic Party run colleges.

Natalia Abrams, president of the Student Debt Crisis Center, a nonprofit focused on ending the student debt crisis, told ABC News that “Democrats and lawmakers need to be careful because this is something the public has said they want.”

“If you can afford to pause student loan payments over and over again, you can afford to cancel it,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson tweeted after President Joe Biden announced his administration would extend the federal pause on student loan repayment for the third time in December.

What’s that old saying about people voting themselves money and the end of the Republic?

Vice President Kamala Harris responded to Ocasio-Cortez’s comment in a recent interview with CBS News, saying that Secretary of Education Cardona is looking into what the Biden administration can do to alleviate the pressure that borrowers are enduring from student loan debt. However, Harris also acknowledged the impact student debt is having on individuals across the country.

“Graduates and former students across our country are literally making decisions about whether they can have a family, whether they can buy a home,” she said.

That’s life for everyone, not just people who have student loans debt with a degree in Feminine Studies who can only get a job at a coffee house.

Back in July, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a press conference that President Biden does not have the legal authority to use executive action to cancel federal student loan debt.

“People think that the president of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness; he does not,” said Pelosi. “He can postpone, he can delay, but he does not have that power, that has to be an act of Congress.”

Remember that.

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22 Responses to “Democrats Think Not Giving Free Money For Student Debt Could Hurt Their Midterms”

  1. Elwood P. Dowd says:

    Politics!! How dare politicians listen to the people!?!

    President Bush and the Republican Congress passed the Medicare Modernization Act which included the new and popular Medicare Part D before the 2004 elections!

    Part D was improved by the Affordable Care Act.

  2. Dana says:

    Canceling student loan debt, huh? In other words, taxing working people whose children will never go to college, to pay for the education of their bosses’ children, so that their bosses’ children can become the bosses of the working class’ children. Welfare for the well-to-do!

    • L.G.Brandon says:

      That’s exactly what student loan forgiveness is, having a landscaper’s taxes pay for a Vanguard executive’s daughter’s BA in African Dance so she can become a NYC legislator. Another get-rich scheme by Democrats for their wealthy donors. You know, like making us pay for their $160,000 electric cars plus the charging stations every fifty feet for them. We love how the Dems are always squawking about income inequality yet under their junta régime.

      Maybe they can Pcircle back and include it in the Build Back Bullcrap bill along with the other taxpayer handouts to Democrat supporters, voters and bundlers. They certainly wouldn’t do anything beneficial to America like finish the F*****g wall to keep the filthy illegal aliens out (who add nothing to America by their presence other than increase crime, disease and welfare).

      Democrats are nothing if not consistent in their economic ignorance.

    • Elwood P. Dowd says:

      Hold it. How conveeeenient. Isn’t it right-wing dogma that the wealthy pay most of the taxes? So how does school debt cancellation only affect the working class?

      And just think. If we make college less expensive, more working class children can go to college!

      Medicare and the VA pay 10s of billions into Graduate Medical Education (GME) for physician intern and residency programs, whose participants go on to make several hundreds of thousands a year. Mean Resident pay in the US is $63,000 per year. Should we eliminate these subsidy programs?

      But why do conservatives in general oppose government subsidy of education?

      • L.G.Brandon says:

        Dowd: But why do conservatives in general oppose government subsidy of education?

        We don’t. We oppose the use of government subsidies in discriminatory ways. Sadly, when the government subsidizes something it usually comes with a litany of red tape, rules and regulations meant to eliminate all but the governments preferred receiver list.

        For example, right now in Texas and New York (and probably other states too) the government has refused to give Monoclonal Antibody treatment to white men under 65 who have no comorbidities whereas they will treat blacks and Hispanics regardless.
        I don’t know about you but we figure that’s race discrimination. But it okay because it’s against white men. Hell, I’m a retired fire fighter but I had to put down that I am at least half Indigenous American to get my current job. White men need not apply. Or as they used to say: “NO IRISH”.

        Dowd: “Hold it. How conveeeenient. Isn’t it right-wing dogma that the wealthy pay most of the taxes? So how does school debt cancellation only affect the working class?”

        We didn’t say it only affected the working class. We are saying it affects the working class more and in a more repressive way. Or do you actually believe a school custodian should pay the tuition of Sean Hannity’s kids? Or perhaps you’ll come up with a clever way where only the people you like get subsidies, reimbursements, loans, and loan forgiveness. Like fixing an election, you’ll fix the tuition rebates. Maybe you should get your criminals in the DNC working on that before the election.

        “And just think. If we make college less expensive, more working class children can go to college!”

        And here we thought the idea of “Community Colleges” was to do that? Or were we lied to again? Or is the very thought of teens paying even a portion of their own lower tuition just too much to bear?

        Is there ever a point at which you leftists do not want to steal the money off those who earn it and give it to those who don’t? Throw out a number.

        What’s democratic about the D?M?CRATs?

        • Elwood P. Dowd says:

          Biden: Or do you actually believe a school custodian should pay the tuition of Sean Hannity’s kids?

          We think the custodian should pay little or no total taxes and Hannity should pay more.

          Conservative concern for working class budgets seems to stop at the $768 billion/year for defense. Subsidized college will break the working class but 1/3rd to 1/2 of the budget for defense is not a problem?

          Biden: And here we thought the idea of “Community Colleges” was to do that? Or were we lied to again?

          Not sure what point you’re trying to make. Of course 2 yr community colleges are valuable. Are you implying that working class kids should be excluded from 4 year colleges? Even state schools 4 yr schools are getting out of the reach of the poor and middle class.

      • Dana says:

        The distinguished Mr Dowd wrote:

        And just think. If we make college less expensive, more working class children can go to college!

        But that’s just it: as more and more government programs have opened up college to more and more people, colleges have become more expensive, not less.

        I had to journey back to the Keystone State just before Christmas, to move my sister-in-law back to the Bluegrass. I stopped at the McDonald’s in Flatwoods, West Virginia, and got the same meal I had bought too many times when I was an undergrad, two hamburgers, a large order of fries, and a chocolate shake. It came to $9.16.

        In 1972, at the McDonald’s on Nicholasville Road in Lexington, that meal was 94¢. That means that, today, the meal is 9.7447 times as expensive.

        In 1977, the average price of regular gasoline was 62¢ per gallon. In Kentucky, right now, it’s right around $3.00, 4.8387 times as expensive, while in Pennsylvania, it’s around $3.50, or 5.6452 times as much.

        Now, why pick 1977? I was graduated from the University of Kentucky in May of 1977, and I remember: undergraduate full-time tuition at UK was $406 per semester for in-state students.

        This academic year, it’s $6,305. That’s 15.5296 times as expensive, and that’s in a poor state like Kentucky. This has been sustained because the government and its programs have pumped more and more money into tuition and education assistance as colleges have raised rates.

  3. Matthew W says:

    Sorry, I have ZERO empathy or sympathy for idiots that CHOSE to get an undervalued overpriced “education”.
    Shame on every college that sells a worthless product.
    One thing Democrats never do after coming up with “great” ideas……
    Ask the question: “And then what…….”

  4. Elwood P. Dowd says:

    Teach: when so many used the money to get worthless degrees

    Society probably shouldn’t let Mr Teach decide what degrees are “worth”.

    The idea that colleges and universities should be trade schools is a common right-wing refrain, and ignores the value of liberal education to society. There is value in English majors understanding general scientific knowledge and methods. Physics majors benefit from History, English Lit, Econ and music theory.

    Students majoring in business, computer science, biology, feminist studies, pre-med, agriculture, Black studies, English, information tech or History take more classes outside their major than within.

    General education is a good thing for a society. It is disturbing that in a major political movement in the US, the educated elites (Yale, Harvard, Stanford etc law) oppose general education for their followers, almost as if they believe an uneducated populace is easier to manipulate.

    Why has the cost of a university education increased so much lately? Knee-jerk Teach reflexively blames Dems but the truth is more complicated, e.g., what party opposes gov’t support for education? The 2022 Dept of Ed budget request is for $103 billion. Defense request for $768 billion was signed by Pres Biden, with no objection from Senator Manchin.

    Reduced government support. Greater demand. Expanded offerings. Capital improvements. Endowments lost money in the recessions. High pay and expansion of administrations and administrators – the salaries of Presidents, Deans, Asst Deans, Asst Asst Deans have skyrocketed. The average compensation for a college prez is $350K/yr but the highest paid make over $1 million/yr.

    • Dana says:

      The highly-educated Mr Dowd wrote:

      Teach: when so many used the money to get worthless degrees

      Society probably shouldn’t let Mr Teach decide what degrees are “worth”.

      Our host does not decide what degrees are worth; the economy does that, and the cry for relief from student loans has been generated by graduates — and sometimes not even graduates — combitching that the jobs they were able to get with their degrees just don’t pay enough to pay off their student loans.

      The idea that colleges and universities should be trade schools is a common right-wing refrain, and ignores the value of liberal education to society. There is value in English majors understanding general scientific knowledge and methods. Physics majors benefit from History, English Lit, Econ and music theory.

      Forty years ago, a person with a baccalaureate degree, even if it was in something pretty much unrelated to his eventual career, could still have a reasonable hope for a management position and higher pay. The recessions of 1989 and 2001 ended much of that, and those graduates no longer had the hope that an unrelated major would be lucrative. You state that there is value there, but the economy no longer rewards that value with money.

      Students majoring in business, computer science, biology, feminist studies, pre-med, agriculture, Black studies, English, information tech or History take more classes outside their major than within.

      True enough, but when you present your résumé to a recruiter or HR office, and they see a social justice degree in feminist studies, black studies or some other such thing, smart recruiters and HR offices simply put those in the wastebasket. Who wants to hire a walking, talking discrimination lawsuit?

      The only reasonable career path for a degree in feminist studies is a professorship in feminist studies, and there aren’t that many positions available.

      • david7134 says:

        Dana,
        I can assure you that choice in the US is made based on skin color with whites displaced by any black or brown applicant.

        • Dana says:

          Corporations of any size want ‘diversity,’ but they also want people who can actually do the jobs for which they’ve been hired. The result of that is that if there are applicants for ten positions, corporations might look to hire Applicants of Color a bit harder, but, unless the company is under some sort of consent decree or is led by a social justice warrior, that means the company is more likely to hire three Applicants of Color when they might previously have hired only one or two.

          Human resources people are actually pretty smart, and know with what their companies can, and cannot, get away. One commonly used tactic, at least when labor is plentiful, is to put in place job requirements that are more stringent than the job should actually need. For example, you can require a high school diploma for a job that really doesn’t need it, and that auto-selects out those people who dropped out of school. This will, on average, work against Applicants of Color, but not strongly, so that the company can get a stronger Applicants of Color pool from which to select.

          There is discrimination against white applicants, but it tends to be at the margins when it comes to employment, because employers have to be smart: they have to be able to make money.

          In academic or government applications, the situation is different: since the students’ ability does not negatively affect the university, racial choices are easier to take, and there is an environment which pushes that.

          • david7134 says:

            My experience is in medicine. At a medical school I was responsible for screening candidates for advanced training positions. Several times we our decisions were over ruled on the basis of skin color.

  5. L.G.Brandon says:

    Dowd: The idea that colleges and universities should be trade schools is a common right-wing refrain, and ignores the value of liberal education to society. There is value in English majors understanding general scientific knowledge and methods. Physics majors benefit from History, English Lit, Econ and music theory.”

    There is absolutely no “right wing refrain” of the sort. We on the right actually realize the value of a real college education not just a bunch of unqualified morons being put in over their heads to meet some leftist quota. Unlike you effete snobs on the left we also value the trades and those who make their living with their sweat and hands. You would call them “deplorables” or fly over country.

    I’d rather have a kid who can fix a furnace than one who can diagram a sentence. There may be value in the things you listed but there sure isn’t a lot of demand. That’s why there are so many Uber drivers.

    Dowd: “Society probably shouldn’t let Mr Teach decide what degrees are “worth”.

    I don’t think society could do much worse than we have in allowing a bunch of immature teens determine which “arts” course to waste their money on. Which is okay but when it becomes my money it isn’t. Why are there so many people with degrees that cannot support themselves or pay their loans? Huh? Why? If these degrees were actually worth something we wouldn’t be having this discussion. As usual you Democrats create a problem (worthless courses, degrees and careers) and then “fix ” them with even worse ideas like having the cleaning lady pay taxes to pay off some 85 IQ morons Dance degree. Personally I think the DNC should be sued for the money.

  6. Hairy says:

    Germany has free college for all, including non citizens. Feminist studies? Teach what does that, coupled with your posted pics, tell us about how you communicate to us, your own sex life? Robust? Playboy? Incel?

    • david7134 says:

      John,
      Exactly why do you think the Europeans are better than us? As to free college, if you would look into it you will find that upper level schooling requires you to test into the college. The government essentially tells you what your occupation will be. A student can not just say they feel like going to college. On top of that MD and graduate degrees are not universally accepted from Europe.

  7. Elwood P. Dowd says:

    Biden: Unlike you effete snobs on the left we also value the trades and those who make their living with their sweat and hands. You would call them “deplorables” or fly over country.

    We’ve lived in flyover country our entire lives. The only deplorables are tRump and his minions who planned the “Big Lie” and those that violently stormed the US Capitol.

    The hard-working poor and middle classes deserve respect and support from this nation and have seen precious little since about 1980. We’ve repeatedly cut taxes on the wealthy and corporations driving the debt to near record levels (as % of GDP). As a people we’ve become increasingly productive but the benefits of that have accrued to the already wealthy. Wages for poor and working class Americans has stalled.

    Conservatives oppose trade unions even though union membership increase pay and benefits. Some of my deer-hunting and fishing buddies are union carpenters, insulator, electrician, an apprentice machinist, railway worker and non-union computer tech, chemist, DVM, electrical engineer, insurance manager… most are actual workers who work with their hands.

    What liberals are promoting is redistributing the ballooning incomes and riches of the wealthy and corporations by progressive taxation and social benefits – health care, education, minimum wage, profit sharing, tax reform to reduce the power of Wall Street…

    Don’t we all want ALL Americans to do better?

    • david7134 says:

      Jeff,
      What most Americans desire is freedom and to have the illegal government removed.

  8. Jl says:

    Nice, except the US already has one of the most progressive income tax systems in the developed world.

  9. david7134 says:

    Exactly why do people need college. You certainly are benefited by high school, but trade school can do an individual just as well. Yes, I know the various “studies”, but what I see is my plumber and electrician charging more than I can with government restrictions. Certainly Jeff is not all that intelligent with a PHD.

    • L.G.Brandon says:

      Wait! Whaaaa? Dowd has a PhD? You’re kidding me. He posts like a left over 60’s radical who dropped out of high school. Most of what he posts including the above sound as good as authentic frontier gibberish referred to in Blazing Saddles

      Dowd: We’ve lived in flyover country our entire lives. The only deplorables are tRump and his minions who planned the “Big Lie” and those that violently stormed the US Capitol.

      You may have lived in flyover country but you inhabit the St. Louis commie bubble inside it. Your posts show how “superior” you think yourself to be especially ignorant comments like the “Big Lie” which you accuse others (as usual with your psychotic projection) when you are part of the coup that stole an election successfully ending the American Republic. American patriots demanding justice “stormed” the Capitol because people(?) like yourself refused to consider and remedy their complaints for months. They waved American flags, Trump flags, chanted “USA,USA” and called for an audit. You and your commie friends call that an insurrection. They carried no weapons and were murdered by your gestapo.
      You people are murdering animals just like every other leftist in history from Hitler to Stalin to Maduro.

      From your pink pussy hat to your continued lying for two years about Covid you are a product of leftist “education” and XiNN brain washing. It’s pathetic.

      But you are one of the best and therefore most disgusting trolls I’ve run across on any conservative site. Well, you and “Tony DeLuca” .

      • david7134 says:

        His degree is in pharmacology. Sounds impressive, but it is crip. He recently wrecked his listed corporation with production of a drug study that had major statically flaws. Mostly because he spends his time here calling us names.

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