AOC Suggests People Who Oppose Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Are Selfish

[mystery-ak]

AOC Suggests People Who Oppose Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Are Selfish

Hannah Bleau 29 Aug 2022

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over the weekend defended the Biden administration’s plan to cancel a portion of student loan debt, suggesting that those who oppose it are selfish and contending that it is time for people to “reject the scarcity mindset that says doing something good for someone else comes at the cost of something for ourselves.”

In a post to Instagram over the weekend, the far-left radical and longtime advocate for student loan debt cancellation defended the Biden administration’s decision to cancel $10,000 to $20,000 for borrowers, suggesting that it is wrong for taxpayers to be angry that their money is going towards others’ debts.

“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Not every program has to be for everybody. People with apartments pay for first time homeowner benefits. Young people pay for Medicare for our seniors. People who take public transit pay for car infrastructure,” she claimed, urging Americans to “reject the scarcity mindset that says doing something good for someone else comes at the cost of something for ourselves.” However, she made no distinction between doing something good for someone privately versus the federal government forcing redistribution of private wealth.

“An example: If a person is blessed enough to be in a position to have paid off their loans, maybe they have a home and now benefitted from the first time homeowners programs that people crushed by student loans help subsidize when they aren’t able to buy a home because of student debt,” she claimed, asserting that Americans can “support things we won’t directly benefit from.”

Ocasio-Cortez added that the Biden administration’s move is just a “first step” as she is “also thinking about how this still leaves a question mark for those in the highest amounts of debt, who need the most amount of help.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/29/aoc-suggests-people-who-oppose-student-loan-debt-forgiveness-are-selfish/

[Kamaji]

No, people who loaded up on student loan debt when they should have known better, and who now expect those who were more prudent to pay it off for them, are the ones who are being selfish.

[DefiantMassRINO]

 

Yes, I am selfish.  I am proud to be a selfish deplorable.  I want to keep everything that I have worked for and everything that I have paid for.

Unlike those unselfish college students who want others to pay the bills for their education.

[Lando Lincoln]

Perhaps someone should suggest that student loans are disproportionally tilted towards:

- Whites
- Males
- Heterosexuals

Not sure any of that is true but I’d love to see the heads explode.

[mystery-ak]

Perhaps someone should suggest that student loans are disproportionally tilted towards:

- Whites
- Males
- Heterosexuals

Not sure any of that is true but I’d love to see the heads explode.

You forgot Blacks

Student debt experts say $10,000 isn’t enough specifically for Black borrowers—here’s why

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/29/experts-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-not-enough-for-black-borrowers.html

[Kamaji]

You forgot Blacks

Student debt experts say $10,000 isn’t enough specifically for Black borrowers—here’s why

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/29/experts-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-not-enough-for-black-borrowers.html

According to that article, Blacks are disproportionately borrow more:

Black students and graduates take out more student loans than the average white borrower, and it’s harder for them to pay their loans back. Four years after graduation, the average Black borrower owes $53,000, while the average white borrower owes $28,000, according to the Brookings Institute.

After that same four-year span, 48% of Black students owe an average of 12.5% more than they initially borrowed, while 83% of white students owe 12% less, according to the Education Data Initiative.

In other words, the universities and the government, in its role as lender, are treating blacks as schmucks, as easy marks to be taken advantage of.  Just another innumerable instance of garden-variety liberal racism at work.

[Cyber Liberty]

Well, Donkey-Face is correct about my opinion.  I'm selfish about every damned thing she wants to do.  It's a given.

[jmyrlefuller]

Being 33 and childless by choice is pretty selfish too. But that doesn't fit the socialist dogma, so...

[jmyrlefuller]

Anyway, the accusation of "selfishness" is a favorite attack line of the socialists. It doesn't matter how you're suffering. If socialist policies are causing you to suffer and you want relief, that's selfish. It's a line they loved to trot out during the Lockdown State in 2020.

[mountaineer]

Not at all, Sandy. They just want to date you.