I’ve been trying to find positive things about Joe Biden, and someone linked me to an article saying, “Joe Biden: Let’s Forgive Student Loans!”
And then when I read it, it said he was willing as a starting point to forgive 10k of debt per person.
Which sounds great! BUT THEN...
I found further information about Joe Biden and student debt that revealed dude was *literally* one of the guys who helped make the student debt crisis the way it is now, making sure people *couldn’t* discharge, reschedule, or renegotiate their debts.
This spiked lenders profits from 24 billion to 110 billion betweeen 05 and 2012, so ultimately a “10k per person” erasure of debt would be basically a drop in the bucket

Like, goddamn, y’all, I’m literally *trying* to get on the dude’s side, but come ON.
It’s like, “Vote for me! I’ll make the problem that I made 80% worse, 6% better!”

I don& #39;t know about you, but if I stabbed someone with a 12 inch knife, then took it out 2 inches, I wouldn& #39;t be lauded as progressive for it.
Issues like this are *begging* to be addressed before anyone can tell progressives to vote for him.

If he wasn& #39;t involved with it at all, that& #39;s one thing, but the fact that he& #39;s partially culpable needs to be reckoned with (starting with a little more than 10k, that& #39;s for sure)
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