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Just Shut the Hell Up: It's Only $10,000 Dollars, You Selfish A**hole. What Is Wrong With You?

By Dustin Rowles | Politics | August 25, 2022 |

By Dustin Rowles | Politics | August 25, 2022 |


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I don’t know why Joe Biden’s decision to eliminate $10,000 in student debt (or $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients) has brought out the worst in people, but my God! Everyone seems to have a story they want to use to prove their stupid point. Here’s mine: I left school over two decades ago with $80,000 in debt. I looked this morning to see how much I still owed, which was $67,000. I have been paying this goddamn loan every month for 21 years and it’s barely made a dent. And you know what? I don’t think that Biden’s Executive Order is going to help me at all, because 18 years ago, I had to consolidate all of my loans into one loan so I could afford to make the payment. I don’t think Biden’s plan is going to help those of us with private Sallie Mae or Navient consolidations, which I’ve been making payments on for the last two years because they didn’t qualify for the COVID relief, either.

And you know what? It doesn’t matter. Even if I got $10,000 discharged (or $20,000 because I wasn’t wealthy so I did receive Pell Grants), I doubt it would make a difference anyway. I’m apparently going to be paying that goddamn loan for the rest of my life. But it might make a big difference to someone else who makes significantly less than $125,000 a year.

But the way that most of these conservatives are treating this, it’s as though the federal government were buying rich people a house or a brand new car. I saw someone wondering who the hell has a bachelor’s degree and doesn’t make over $100,000? Who are you? Uh, most of us, shit-ass. Do these people think that $10,000 is going to be life-changing for any of these people? It’s great. Don’t get me wrong. But $10,000 for that 40-year-old who is no longer sexy and is no longer having fun because he’s got three kids? It’s a drop in the bucket. It probably wouldn’t put much of a dent in their credit card debt.

This is not a windfall. For a lot of people who have $40,000 or $100,000 or $200,000 in student debt (do you know how much college costs, for Chrissakes), it might knock $50 a month off their payments. That’s it. Thanks a lot, Biden! Oh, but you managed to work two jobs and raise a kid and pay off your student debt? GOOD FOR YOU. Now shut up, because wouldn’t it have been nice if you hadn’t had to? Did you learn a valuable lesson about work ethic and meeting your obligations? WHO F**KING CARES? This is not about you. Does everything have to be about you? Are you 10?

Does anyone complain when the government subsidizes farming? They do not. It cost a whole hell of a lot more to bail out the banking industry and the auto industry. How many people and companies received actual windfalls from the PPP program? What is your real problem? You don’t want money to go to people who overpaid for their education? You have something against people who sought to better their lives through college? Do you think it’s better to keep the carried interest loophole for mutual fund managers, because those people bust their asses, don’t they? All that money doesn’t move itself around!

Shut up. It’s $10,000. You are a child throwing a tantrum because this one time you weren’t the recipient of something nice. So take your generational wealth or the 401K contribution you don’t pay taxes on or your f**king pride because you’re too good to take a discount on an overpriced education — that folks in many other countries barely have to pay for — and shove it up your ass. It’s a lousy $10,000, you selfish little baby.