Thread regarding General Motors layoffs

Well I hope they wiped out all the debt from Trump University!

The electoral college is anti-democratic because we don’t live in a democracy. Go back to high school and try to stay awake this time.

The national debt is made up of all the annual deficits since the country started.

So from the time you're a baby until you die, you're living under the annual deficits and are "responsible" for the national debt.

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Thinking of people as groups instead of individuals is the problem.

No one says all people 18-24 need to make payments.

Only the people who signed contracts to pay back loans.

If you don't think it's "fair" to pay back a loan, then don't apply for one.

As for the national debt, the politicians make those decisions on spending and taxes.

Unless you've served in Congress or are an ex-president, you didn't make those decisions. They made the choices and they're responsible, not everybody as a whole.

"But you voted for them!"

Almost no one I've voted for has ever won 🤣.

And the electoral college is a profoundly antidemocratic bone tossed to sparsely populated Southern states to get them to join the Union by giving them disproportionate power

Along with 2 senators per state regardless of population. Wyoming and California have the same representation in the Senate.

What about the House?

The membership of the House has been capped at 435, with a minimum of 1 Congressman per state.

That reduces the representation that high population states have over low population states. I don't have the actual numbers, but California may have 50 times the population of Wyoming, but only 10 times the number of Congressmen.

"What does that have to do with people 18-24 (average age) taking on tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans and not wanting to pay them back???"

This person doesn't understand cause and effect, sigh.

The environment that those age 18-24 year olds are living in was created long before they took out those loans. It occurred when they had no say in their future and could not vote. So did you leave them a decent environment to prosper in or did you set them up to take advantage of them? Also these 18-24 year olds did not ring up the national debt. You did that to keep up your current lifestyle. So if you want to talk about paying back loans, that's fine. When do you plan on paying off the national debt before you expire? You jacked it up to ridiculous amounts and now I am afraid you need to pay it off.

"They. Are. ADULTS."

Your statement is not genuine.
They are adults in name only but they are young and naive.
Professors take advantage of them because those children have very little knowledge or experience.
The actual adults in Congress, on Wall Street, and at those universities also take advantage of them.
They did not grow the national debt, you did.
They do not occupy positions in power (Congress, University chairs, ...) you do.
Let us not miss the point of who is in charge and who setup the current environment and put the US into decline.

"They share some responsibility but they are children."

They. Are. ADULTS.

If you care to argue this point, I will refer you to the Selective Service System.
Old enough to die for oil and the deep state, old enough to understand loan terms.
Old enough to get a credit card, drive/buy a car, get a mortgage, etc. old enough to understand loan terms.
If you are over 18 and smart enough to go to college...
Enough with the excuses. We have plumbers and waitresses paying for other people's student loans. It's not right and you know it.

The emperor is not wearing clothes but we are told we must acknowledge that he is. They can steal elections, pew-pew rivals, open the border & fund it with massive debt, start/fund wars, sterilize & brainwash kids, unleash lab v!ruses and lock us down, force EVs on people, etc. but I'm not complying and neither should you.

I need some sort of hotline to the federal reserve instead of 911.
I need an immediate bailout. :-)

"Like forgiving student loans for folks who voluntarily signed contracts to borrow money and pay it back."
They share some responsibility but they are children.
The government working with the "universities" took advantage of them.
Basically we have government money being passed through the students to the "universities" which keeps ja--ing up their costs. It's a scam in more ways than one.

Like forgiving student loans for folks who voluntarily signed contracts to borrow money and pay it back.

Will they forgive the loan for my mortgage, too? How about my car loan? Credit cards?

If the government pays my debts, I'll have more free money to spend, which will boost the economy!

Of course, the national debt will go up, because Congress will never raise taxes to cover the spending they authorize.

Buying the UAW vote simply

Will respond on Nov. 5.

Hmmmmm, maybe I should apply to the Department of Agricultue to work on developing money trees to pay for all of this folly. Two penny Jenny the enegy Queen must be smiling.

Just saw this headline.

US Spent A Record $140 Billion On Debt Interest In June, 30% Of All Tax Revenues

This is not going to end well - a collapse or war.

The government shouldn't be giving grants of taxpayer dollars to private corporations.

At best, they should allow companies to bid for contracts to provide a product that the government wants to buy.

Then it's up to the companies to refurbish factories or whatever to fulfill the contract.

It is an old-fashioned boondoggle.
Robbing us of tax dollars to fund corporate welfare.