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1

I haven't subscribed, but I was hoping Chris Wallace would make a go of it after leaving Fox.

2

I get my CNN news from my Boomer parents. They like to stay informed of all the BREAKING NEWS!!!! in between sessions of Judge Judy and The Weather Channel.

8

I'm just shocked to learn that anyone on "the Stranger" staff waits until AFTER work to toke up.

10

Man, I miss Lester!

11

peeps do this
shit SOBER?

how's That work?

12

'Student Debt'
is to keep Rich
peeps Rich and the
Po' in their Proper Place:

in Serfitude
dude.

14

@13: I knew it wouldn't be good enough.

Someone remind me how much Student Loan Debt the Trump Administration addressed?

15

@13 That is a perfectly sensible solution and precisely the sort of thing Biden said he would do during the campaign and not just erase debt.

But you sure caught him out!

16

so
NO criticism
of Smokin' Joe?

I seem to be missing
Something here

17

Nintendo is widely known in the local industry as being the bottom of the barrel. I've worked in both their CS and QA departments (when I was much younger and didn't have many options), and was appalled at their treatment of contractors. They were treated exactly like migrant day-laborers, only they demanded the "contractors" come to their office before they are told whether there will be work for them that day. I could list other awful aspects of how they treat people, but that should be enough.

FUCK NINTENDO. I hope the unionization effort is successful. It is desperately needed to rein in the Plumber's awful behavior and it would be a major victory for labor in the tech sector to have the company synonymous with video games become organized.

19

Forgiving student loan debt is not the right thing to do, it is not a matter of morals at all. The only thing they should do is convert all student loans to non-interest bearing and then apply any interest paid to date to the principal. That is the fair thing to do.

They should really be focusing on the cost of the education, not the funding mechanism. Fix that, and the rest solves itself.

21

or make it like it was formerly:
fucking Affordable to ALL

where's the god damn Harm?
strip-mining the Citizenry
does not Help
the Citizenry

24

@19 Would you apply the same logic to cars/car loans? Are cars more expensive now because of the ability to get a loan? Do you think the inability to get relief of student loans via bankruptcy unlike all other loans increases the cost of higher education? Certainly home prices are correlated to the cost of mortgages. Although I have zero data and haven't researched it at all, my gut tells me the increased cost of education is linked to higher demand for higher education. The funding mechanism is just coming along for the ride.

Also, unless you're just spit-balling, I never mentioned anything about providing free college, although I do think a degree in english should be cheaper than a degree in engineering.

25

@18 This may come as a shock to you so hold on to your beanie… but Biden was elected president. Not Elisabeth Warren.

26

“The more you subsidize education the more expensive it becomes because Colleges and Universities charge more.”

Totally provably preposterous.

Education was cheaper when it more heavily subsidized by state governments.

My man, my tuition in the 1980’s was less than $400 a quarter. And subsidies to state colleges was proportionally waaaaay higher. College costs have increased by 169% since 1980. And state schools got way more support by states themselves.

When the subsidies were PRIVATIZED to bank loans underwritten by the Federal government is when they inflated.

27

@23 -- sure:

put the Citizenry
ahead of strip-
Mining the
Citizenry.

29

nope.
Just ideas.

I'll leave the Planning
to the Planners

it's what
they do
Best.

31

spose I'll complain
bitch & moan &
whine nag rag
and et cetera
but

my doggerel?
leave that
bitch out-
ta it.


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