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Republicans Who Complain about Student Loan Forgiveness Are Hypocrites

Diane Ravitch's blog

A number of Republicans received Paycheck Protection Program loans, which were forgiven.

The White House tweeted a response to Republican Congressman Vern Buchanan of Florida, who complained about debt relief for college students. He received a Payroll Protection Program loan from the federal government of $2.3 million. The loan was forgiven.

@WhiteHouse

Congressman Vern Buchanan had over $2.3 million in PPP loans forgiven.

Buchanan had tweeted:

@VernBuchanan

“As a blue-collar kid who worked his way through college, I know firsthand the sacrifices people make to receive an education. Biden’s reckless, unilateral student loan giveaway is unfair to the 87 percent of Americans without student loan debt and those who played by the rules.”

So it’s okay for the federal government to give Congressman Buchanan $2.3 million, which he doesn’t have to pay back, but not to help college kids drowning in debt with a student loan forgiveness of $10,000-20,000?

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Quotation: Whatever Insults Your Own Soul ~ Whitman

Troubador of Verse

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“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.”


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Oui, ça donne à réfléchir de reconnaître qu’en effet : “Aujourd’hui, nous avons plus de groupes environnementaux et moins de forêts, plus de “zones …

« Aujourd’hui, nous avons plus de groupes environnementaux et moins de forêts, plus de “zones protégées” et moins d’espèces, plus de taxes sur le …