BRUTAL: Manchin Confronts Cardona About Biden Student Debt Forgiveness Plans: 'This Is Stupid!' 

Since I didn't cosign for any student loan why should I be saddled to pay for someone that I don't even know.

@@philtorres2975Yes but they are getting useful degrees in feminist dance therapy, transgender studies, holistic thought and engineering. Sorry the last one slipped.

@@philtorres2975 You won't. We've been a fiat economy for decades. Right wing media will keep you clueless, however. if you want to live a life with some measure of integrity as you grow older, you have to stop being an easy mark.

@@jimjohnston526, engineering I can see helping but the rest of the lame degrees hell no. If a degree doesn't get you a job to make money then it doesn't even qualify one for welfare.

@@recoveredconservativepipe down Azhat.

They act stupid too

Since when do democrats listen to the courts or the constitution?

Better yet, reduce the tax burden by what the Fed has been unconstitutionally stealing from tax payers to "rule" education.....

"Brat" is a bit much. The students aren't necessarily brats - - they got loans, went to college, and now are being told in many instances they don't have to pay the loans back. It's the Biden administration's fault, plain and simple.

Why?, because Joe needs this brats vote and he's more than happy to buy it with your money! That's why.

Would you oppose medical treatment to someone that you couldn't afford due to a new policy?

​@@markportnoy6290apples and oranges.

@@denniskatz2303 it's all concerning how we use tax money.

Forgiving PPP loans without requiring those companies to work it off at community resource programs is just stone cold stupid. Why is it that you think having an educated populace likeother 1st world countries is stupid but letting multi-million and billion dollar profit corporations off the hook for their loans is fine? Especially after they already take $292 BILLION in socialist, taxpayer funded corporate welfare every year

@@Slw1111 You are relating companies that actually hire people who pay taxes and the company pays taxes to student loans. Please help me.

@@Slw1111 PPP loans were DESIGNED to be partially or completely forgiven. PPP stands for Paycheck Protection Program which was part of the deal passed by Congress and signed by the president during the Covid shutdown in 2020. Basically the idea was to pay businesses government money, just as citizens received checks, in order to retain their employees during the government imposed government shut down of private businesses. Your representation of this is a COMPLETE LIE. Moreover, even if you want to criticize the program there is no denying the program was passed by Congress. The Biden administration is trying to do this unilaterally from the executive branch, despite the SC ruling denying them the authority. You are either completely ignorant or a propagandist, you tell me which.

@@tlw6932 Ok, I will help you. Individuals pay taxes, corporations rarely do. The PPP loans were designated to be used to pay worker wages. Audits have shown that only 25% of those funds went to workers. The rest of the workers were fired or laid off so they didn't have to be paid. The other 75% of those PPP loans went directly into the pockets of CEO's, Shareholders, Politicians, and to pay company debts. So those loans were used in a fraudulent manner and then forgiven. Furthermore, per the Institute of Taxation and Economic Policy, 342 companies paid less than a 14% tax rate, which is significantly lower than the 22% tax rate individuals earning between $63,000 and $100,500 pay. 87 companies paid less than a 10% tax rate (the rate people earning $16,550 or less a year pay). Of those 87 companies, 55 paid less than 5% and 23 of those paid a 0% tax rate or LESS. Meaning they had a negative tax rate and were actually given a "refund" on taxes that they never paid in the first place. In addition to that US corporations take $292 BILLION in corporate welfare every single year, and guess who pays that welfare? Oh right, individual taxpayers. And yet here people are, bitching about educating our citizens like other 1st world countries have done for decades. This just proves to the entire planet what a f*cking joke this country is.

The ignorance surrounding this issue reveals the crimes right wing media commits on a daily basis. Imagine if we decided we can't free the slaves because some of them saved their pennies for decades and bought their freedom? Giving the rest their freedom wouldn't be fair, right? Or if we decided we can't provide homesteads because some scraped their pennies together and bought their farms, so giving others free farms wouldn't be fair, right? We would NEVER have made progress as a society if Americans didn't possess the integrity to do what was right regardless of their own circumstances. But there's a hellova lot of ignorant Republicans out there who can't think their way out of a paper bag. "Oh, it's just not fair!" Good God.

He's another Affirmative Action hire.😡

gender study does not pay well

Worse, people working at McDonald’s will be paying off the debt of the college drop out who went on full grants and chose to take out full loans but sat around and played video games all day and never went to class. Literally. I worked at colleges for 10 years, I’ve seen it. I knew a guy who went to college for a year and got $25,000 in refund money but dropped out because he wasn’t going to class and wasn’t do any homework.

Nope. People working at McDonalds in most cases won't be making enough money to be paying federal taxes. Someone making $100K is going to pay 25-30 percent in federal taxes. That said, what the Biden administration is doing with student loan forgiveness is absurd.

People working at McDonald's will be paying off the immediately forgiven corporate PPP Loans, as well as, the hundreds of billions of dollars in welfare corporations take every single year.

Most of these kids will not make 100k. They will choose an easy degree and average way lower.

Manchin VOTES for this. WTF are you talking about.

Washington, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) released the following statement on his vote for the resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn the Biden Administration’s student loan cancellation program. “Today I voted to repeal the Biden Administration’s student loan cancellation proposal because we simply cannot afford to add another $400 billion to the national debt. There are already more than 50 existing student loan repayment and forgiveness programs aimed at attracting individuals to vital service jobs, such as teachers, health care workers, and public servants. This Biden proposal undermines these programs and forces hard-working taxpayers who already paid off their loans or did not go to college to shoulder the cost. Instead, we should be focusing on bipartisan student debt reforms that reduce the cost of higher education and help all Americans.” NOPE LOOKS LIKE YOU FORGOT TO CHECK YOUR FACTS!!!

Corporations had all of their PPP Loans immediately forgiven. And the get hundreds of billions in welfare paid by taxpayers every year but you're ok with that.

Do you think the Supreme Court is credible or legitimate these days? I'm not sure myself.

Then PPP Loan forgiveness was also unconstitutional, right?

Yep, even Nancy Pelosi said "the President can't cancel student loans, he can "delay or postpone" loans.

I’d be happy to make 35k and only work less than half the year...

@@tonyv416 wtf? Teachers work 50 hour plus week 10 months of the year then many work summer school or crappy jobs like bartending in the summer. That’s not even to mention going to grad school. Where the hell are you from that teachers work less than half the year? 😂😂😂

​@@NotANameistbeing a teacher is a choice. If her debt had doubled its because she had never made a payment. She isn't very smart for a teacher.

@@NotANameist Teachers are part of organized labor and get a solid salary plus benefits and get 20 sick days plus increased vacation days in their contracts (locally). It's all public record as public funds (taxes) are used for their compensation. If some teacher needs to work a summer job to make ends meet, it's due to poor money management on their part. Tenured teachers; the worst kind can sit back and collect their salary even when their students can't read Green Eggs And Ham or can't add 2 + 2. Never underestimate the incompetence of unions and government. Example? Well, the Federal government is handing out "free" money (student loan forgiveness) & "aid" to other countries as if it were literally free money. If they can simply hand out "free" money without a repayment being required, then what is that money worth? Free money isn't free; it will have to be paid back through higher taxes at the multigenerational level and through inflating the debt away with higher interest rates. Debasement of your dollar comes slowly until recently--costs of everything accelerated under the current potato since he took office and he keeps on handing money out while allowing illegals to enter & reap "free" housing, food, cell phones, healthcare & if they slip in with kids, those kids get an education at the taxpayer's expense. The irony is the people that are getting their debt canceled will be paying through higher taxes and higher cost of goods since money is being handed out with no strings attached while the people that actually make stuff have to make stuff and sell it to earn a living. If everybody's getting money for nothing, the people making stuff WILL raise their prices to get their cut of that "free" pie that some people are getting for no reason aside from carrying debt.

​@@tonyv416OH do show us what teacher does that? Also do you buy your own work supplies and give them with your entire department?

Biden needs votes

They all are..

Lots of people also got free rent for a year. The people that worked the entire time and paid their bills the entire got screwed. I paid the entire time and now rent is $300 more a month than it was in 2020.

I hear ya. I paid off my student loans as a MUSICIAN. I also postponed my student loans for 6 months and realized that’s a bad idea due to being charged interest all the while.

The system is broken and the government broke it.