Originally posted by: Jerry Ice 33
100%. If you've seen my posts on that PPP farce.
If you sign a loan contract, a provision of which says, "You are obligated to repay this loan unless X or Y happens," and X or Y does indeed happen, are you being "liberal" or some kind of crook to not repay it, or is the lender being a fool to forgive the loan? Or....pause for thought...would that just mean that the contract is being honored? It's called a "contingent clause." Look it up.
The RepubliQ are fucking, stinking crooks, but if some of them got their loans forgiven according to the provisions in those loans, well, bully for them. What reeks, of course, is them railing against Biden reinstating the loan forgiveness program after Trump sat on it.
And by the way--let's crush this "I paid my student loan, so why should their loans be forgiven?" nonsense. Those whose loans were and will be forgiven either didn't earn enough money--in twenty years--to repay them OR worked in a public service sector, such as teaching, for at least five years. It was part of the deal. So if you didn't qualify for forgiveness, you're not being cheated or screwed over.
Oh, and why was the public service sector qualification enacted? To encourage college graduates to pursue otherwise low-paying jobs that benefit the public. We don't want people saying, "I'd love to become a teacher, but I wouldn't earn enough to repay my student loans," do we?