• Tygr@lemmy.world
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    My kids were hyper aware out of high school of the burden of student loan debt and refused to sign on any federal loans. I’m proud they graduated college without debt… they did it sacrificing party time with work time, but they are financially better off because of it.

    So many kids now have learned that signing paperwork can mean financial ruin that can’t be bankrupted.

    That’s a good thing.

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    All I know is that if IDR is killed off, I’ll have to go into bankruptcy as i don’t have enough for groceries for my family as is. I know the likelihood of getting the stident debt is next to impossible, but i might be able to afford that payment if my cc debt is killed off ($40k) but would still have mortgage, car payment, roof loan payment, and my private student loans as well. I’m just pretty much tapped out. Probably worth more dead than alive, though I’m the bread winner.

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      There will be a lot of bankruptcies and I can’t see how that benefits the corporations that are expecting loan repayments. It seems like they lose either way, so maybe we should have let them lose without fucking over so many other people.

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        I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy

        Quote from a certain U.S. politician on real estate crashes…

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      You shouldn’t assume you know things you’ve not done before. Student loan relief through bankruptcy is not ‘next to impossible’. Since the new guidelines were drafted for judges about 98% of student debt holders seeking bankruptcy had some or all of their loans discharged.

      You should also be aware that not all studen loan debt is equal. The higher requirements for discharge only apply to loans for tuiton specifically. If you got extra in your loans for computers, car, room, board, etc, then those amounts are treated like any other unsecured debt during bankruptcy.

      There are articles/guidelines/worksheets that you can find on the Dept of Education and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau websites to help you get a good idea of how your specific situation is likely to turn out.

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      Republicans are the only reason this promise wasn’t fulfilled. Biden has been trying again and again to get this through.

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        “The bad cop is the only reason we’re in this mess. The good cop has been honest and reassuring us that they’re trying their hardest to ensure we get treated fairly.”

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          Are you stupid or do you straight up just shit post and pay literally no attention to current events? People like you need to start being treated like you are illiterate and an idiot.

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    Biden: Hey here’s half a trillion dollars back on student loans, a trillion dollars on climate change, unions and manufacturing jobs, and a bunch of other stuff, all paid for by big increases in corporate tax

    USA: Yeah but corporations are still doing bad stuff though

    USA: We pick Trump

    Biden: Alright fuck you then

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      this is stuff that never would have made it all the way to implementation anyway; with voters shooting off their own feet last month, and some hand-picked maga judges ruling against the policy.

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    He’s done what he could with the Republicans fighting him every step of the way. Better to spend this last month doing what he can to Trump-proof stuff.

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        Hey now, he really needed all those years to mull it over, just to make sure it aged like milk.

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        He could use his “official acts” granted by the Supreme Circus to rid us once and for all of this turbulent turd. But he won’t.

        Motherfucker said “Nothing will fundamentally change”

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        I read that withdrawing the student loans was actually one of the things. If he hadn’t Trump could have used the years long progress to implement his own policies. Now he would have to restart the process over again to make any changes.

        He just appointed a bunch of federal judges this week.

        He has also just made a new international climate agreement. It can probably be thrown out but it’s another thing that would cause a delay. Nothing is going to make anything Trump proof since he controls 3 branches of government and is immune to crimes. It’s all stall tactics.

        Biden is terrible at marketing the stuff he does. He doesn’t do enough and the things he does actually do just gets pushed through without any press. He also publicly shows no fight when things are blocked so it looks like he never even attempted. Still runs things like an old time senator expecting nonbiased journalists to spread the word for him.

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    I’m so sick of our financial wellbeing being a pawn for these political asshats to play with…

    My loan repayment period was supposed to end in June of this year as part of the service workers repayment plan. I wasn’t even on the SAVE plan and my account has been put into some sort of weird limbo because of all this stupid garbage. My servicer won’t even touch my account. They just keep extending the forbearance on it every time a new judge steps in.

    Now Trump’s gonna step in yet again and fuck us all even more…

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      I really don’t like it when people say “The country spoke” like, excuse you, but I didn’t vote for Trump so don’t you dare assume that I did.

      71 million people spoke out of the 334.9 million in America. 150 million americans did vote while 90 million didn’t.

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          335 million is the population, 71 million voted for trump. You can extrapolate with 150 million voters and 90 million that didn’t , there are only 240 million of the US population that are eligible to vote (so near 100 million didn’t even have a chance to voice their opinion).

          I’ve looked at the numbers before but can’t remember the specifics but it’s at least in the ball park if my memory serves me right.

          edit: grammar

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    Rules were unfinished - they were trying to rewrite a second version after Republicans kept blocking it in court. The unfinished rules already had republicans threatening to sue about it. Presumably ran out of time to complete it

    He’s still looking at other more narrow areas that are less able for Republicans to make BS challenges on

    Biden is still pursuing other avenues for debt relief before his term is up. On Friday, his administration announced an additional $4.28 billion in debt relief for 54,900 borrowers in Public Service Loan Forgiveness — a result of ongoing improvements to the program. Despite not being able to pass broad relief, Biden, over the course of his term, has provided relief to nearly 5 million borrowers through changes to various programs.

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    Trump said he was going to reinstate all the debt anyway.

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      Do you have a source for that? I’m not sure how one would even go about bringing debt back that has been effectively erased.

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        You can’t, but that never stopped Trump from saying shit like this. “Mexico will pay for the wall”

        I don’t have a source but that is about as Trump as Trump can get.