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So based on Dr. Fauci and the Democrats, I will need an ID card to go shopping but not to vote?
@MarkYoungTruth
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Elon said he expected to sell 250,000 Cybertrucks per year.View quoted post on X
He only sold 56,000 over 4 years.
CAN WE PLEASE STOP ACTING LIKE STUDENT LOANS ARE JUST A MATTER OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY?View quoted post on X
My cousin graduated with $52,000 in student debt. He did what everyone told him to do.
Study hard. Get a degree. Find a decent job. Build a future.
He got the degree.
His first job paid $46,000 a year.
His student loan payment was $450 a month that's $5,400 every year going toward education before rent, groceries, transportation, taxes, or savings. And here's the part that bothers me.
The degree was supposed to improve his earning potential over his lifetime. It wasn't supposed to guarantee that his first job would make him wealthy.
But why does someone have to begin their adult life with a financial obligation that can follow them for years before they've even had a chance to build an emergency fund?
Yes, education can be a worthwhile investment. Yes, loan terms matter. And no, not every degree or borrowing decision has the same outcome but an investment can be valuable and still place an enormous burden on the person financing it.
We celebrate graduates for getting their qualifications.
We rarely talk about how long some of them spend paying for the privilege of earning those qualifications.
If education is the path to a better financial future, why does the starting line come with so much debt?
The MAGAverse crying "stolen elections" again is obnoxious/annoying as it is preposterous. Do you MAGA people fail to understand how intensely we, the sane/smart majority, hate Trump? The guy is RUINING our lives..and yours too! Figure that out!View quoted post on X
I don't get the reflexive conservative hostility to this. $12/month to guarantee food for everyone plus lift the burden on families to prepare meals would be a society-wide positive (anyone who wants to make homecooked meals still can).View quoted post on X