Gary Varvel for April 10, 2024

They don’t have anything else, so it’s the meme of the day.

They are only dependents if you need them to vote for you.

Bribing season on the horizon. They surely need to fool those young voters again so they end up voting for the Old Geezer.

Just come to the border and self-identify as a Venezuelan with student loan debts. You’re set for life.

Lets ask all those Congressmen who had their big covid loans forgiven to give the money back.

Conservatives fear higher education. This is from a Pew Research Study:

*"A 2015 Pew Research Center study quantified that the better educated one is, the more likely one is to hold liberal beliefs. But I’d argue, contrary to what conservatives seem to feel, that’s not because of bullying professors shouting left-wing dogma. Rather, it’s because once you learn how to think, you’re less susceptible to thin reasoning and easy answers. And increasingly, that’s all conservatism’s got".

Throughout history, the first point of attack has always been those who are educated and those doing the education. Mao and the Cultural Revolution, Pol Pot and the Khemer Rouge, and countless Republican leaders have attacked both universities and those who teach at them. If Republicans can make higher education inaccessible to all but a privileged, politically safe few, their ability to rule is enhanced. Only let the masses know what you want them to know. This concept goes back to antiquity and for further reading, I suggest The Allegory Of The Cave by Plato.

It is no wonder that Republicans hate the idea of people getting help with student loans. The more people that can afford a college degree, the fewer people will join their ranks. I’m sure if Republicans and conservatives have their way, higher education will be the sole purview of the party elite.

*Leonard Pitts Jr.’s Miami Herald

^^@DC Swamp: Why don’t you follow your own suggestion? See how long it takes for a crazed MAGA Texas Ranger to shoot you in the spawner.

GOP Rep. Vern Buchanan: “loan giveaway is unfair to the 87 percent of Americans without student loan debt and those who played by the rules.”

more than $2.3 million in PPP loans forgiven.

GOP Rep. Markwayne Mullin: “farmers, ranchers, small business owners and teachers in his state don’t need to be paying the debts of Ivy League lawyers and doctors across the U.S."

more than $1.4 million in PPP loans forgiven

GOP reps Kevin Hern, Mike Kelly and Matt Gaetz

$1 million, $987,000, and $482,300 forgiven, respectively

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene“For our government just to say, OK, well your debt is completely forgiven, it’s completely unfair. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay off the student loan debt for some ivy league student. That’s not fair.”

$183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.

Cost of Biden’s forgiving student loans: $136.6 billion dollars.

Cost of trump’s tax cuts for the richest Americans:

$2.3 trillion dollars

Shut. The heII. UP

Stupidity runs rampant with Varvel’s bunch today.

The IRS is part of the Treasury Department. The Treasury is part of the executive branch.. And Joe Biden is the executive branch (and the legislative branch, and the judicial branch all rolled into one). Sorry Mr. Taxpayer, you are screwed, blued, and tatooed.

Right wingers whine about everything except giving tax breaks to rich people that the middle class have to pay for.

The rich benefit from the caste system that keeps college out of the reach of all but those who are already well off. They can pay wages that require two or three jobs per household just to keep food on the table, while they keep the majority of the GNP produced by the people who are living that way. And, they are assured that future generations will remain in that situation, since tuition isn’t an option.

The average college graduate pays about $7800 more a year in federal taxes than the average high school graduate (2023). Over 30 years, that totals about $234,000. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, THE GOVERNMENT MAKES MONEY ON AVERAGE ON EACH STUUDENT. This includes those who never, graduate, get degrees that don’t help get a job, or just generally don’t make it, because the majority do.

This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes.

The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, including trade schools, etc totally free, as long as the student is making decent grades, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education. There is no better way to spend money than to invest it in our people, to give them every opportunity to be the best they can be. Yes, It’s good for them individually, but the country is made up of individuals, so what’s good for one is good for the country.. We don’t, even during a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.

FJB

Student loans should have always been interest free. It is an investment into this Nation’s future. The interest will be forgiven, not costing the taxpayer.

Why not? If the corrupt administration ignores the constitution and Supreme Court it will be him and everyone else that DIDN’T take out a loan for gender studies and other useless degrees that have to pay.

Univision Asked Biden What’s The ‘Primary Threat To Freedom’ And He Didn’t Hold Back

Univision’s Enrique Acevedo asked President Joe Biden what he believes “constitutes the primary threat to freedom and democracy” in the United States.

Biden had a simple answer.

“Donald Trump,” the president replied in a lengthy interview that the Spanish language network aired Tuesday.

“Seriously,” he added.

Biden then pulled few punches as he tore into his predecessor’s use of authoritarian rhetoric, support of the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and derogatory comments about minority populations.

The four-times-indicted presumptive GOP nominee “uses phrases like if you’re going to eviscerate the Constitution, he’s gonna be a dictator on day one,” Biden noted.

“The idea that he would sit […] off the Oval Office and watch for hours the attack on the Capitol, and the destruction and the mayhem and people were killed, the police officers who died, and call them political heroes, to call them patriots, and say that if he gets elected he’s going to free them all, because they’re being held illegally?” he added.

“I can’t think of any other time in my lifetime, in history that’s occurred, that you’ve had somebody who’s had this kind of attitude,” said Biden. “He says he’s going to be a dictator on day one? No one doesn’t believe him.”

Yawwwwwwnnnnn . . .

I paid my student loans…now a Demoncrat is going to take my tax dollars to let losers off the hook for theirs’. Is it November yet???

I paid for my college, these loan-holders can pay for theirs!

When I went to college and later took courses at a local Vo-Tech, I could pay the fees with part-time jobs, with money left for food and shelter. Now I could not easily pay for tuition with my full time job without grants and / or loans.

So hard-working laborers who didn’t take money from others for their education will have to pay it back for them.

But it’s fine for all those magat lawmakers to get loans and then get them forgiven.

Democrats – “My body, my choice”. We say, “Your loan. You pay it back”.

Trump claimed all them student dependents.

Or did he have a different way of paying only $750 on at least $7,000,000 in income from emoluments (which are in violation of the Constitution)?