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Biden's already eliminated a ton of it. I'm glad to see he's still going on this despite the Supreme Court ruling, and I don't even have student loans.
I have a good job and paid mine off already and I'd still vote like hell to get other's forgiven.
As opposed to the conservative/regressive approach: "I suffered, therefore you should too. Fuck trying to make things better for people who aren't me."
I'm not American and have no student loans and even I'm glad he's doing it. There might be a common stereotype internationally that Americans are fat lazy assholes, but to tell you the truth, the Americans I know or have met have been the absolute nicest people I know. The ones I work with regularly are also crazy hard workers. There's a lot of potential for good in the US, but oppressive economic systems get in the way for a lot of people and it's just heartbreaking to see.
I myself would love to live in the US, I'd live a very comfortable life as a software engineer, but I just couldn't do it to my future children (there's one well on the way) - the knowledge that they might have to go into debt for medical or education reasons is just too much for me. And while I have a good career, I'll probably never be truly financially independent to the point I could just handle any unexpected expense regardless of magnitude.
Don't think of it as either-or. I doubt I will ever retire but if I do it won't be in the States. I hope my kids go to higher ed and if that happens I am most likely going to push them to go to Germany for it. I have to get dental surgery so the next time I am abroad is when I am going to get it done.
He never stopped. As soon as the SC struck the original plan down he started the longer process. It’s been in motion the whole time.
IIRC a lot of it was already in motion before SCOTUS ruled on it, as a backstop.