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Kaleva

(40,472 posts) Fri May 20, 2022, 06:54 AM May 2022

Telling people that forgiving student loan debt will improve everyone's lives isn't true. [View all]

Climate change is going to make everyone's life a severe hardship and a struggle for survival. The future for all young people today is bleak and eliminating or reducing student debt isn't going to change that. One may be saddled with student debt today but today is still going to be a lot better then what is coming.

I'm not against reducing or eliminating student debt but just be honest about their futures.

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Telling people that forgiving student loan debt will improve everyone's lives isn't true. [View all] Kaleva May 2022 OP

Think of it as an opportunity... maybe without the specter of student loans over their head ck4829 May 2022 #1

Cool Tree-Hugger May 2022 #2

Consumerism is never the way out of environental problems bucolic_frolic May 2022 #3

lol okay WhiskeyGrinder May 2022 #4

I very much disagree AntivaxHunters May 2022 #5

This Tree-Hugger May 2022 #8

The only way to combat climate change is by a world wide effort Kaleva May 2022 #14

If someone finds a clear path forward the rest of the world will follow. hunter May 2022 #38

Mr. Bowie said it best about the kids blogslug May 2022 #6

The whole verse is perfection Tree-Hugger May 2022 #9

prefer Sham 69 Celerity May 2022 #22

So eliminate all governement services? Johnny2X2X May 2022 #7

Where did I ever say eliminate SS, Medicare it Medicaid? Kaleva May 2022 #12

They should also ban future student loans madville May 2022 #26

Reform is needed Johnny2X2X May 2022 #28

So if we forgive all the loans..... USALiberal May 2022 #10

I predict many will likely borrow even more than they would have, & stop paying what they do owe MichMan May 2022 #11

I agree, so I'm still not sure why everyone thinks it's such a great idea. USALiberal May 2022 #13

Tuition will rise even higher as well MichMan May 2022 #20

There are two types of debt forgiveness advocates madville May 2022 #25

The only way it makes sense madville May 2022 #23

I agree! Nt USALiberal May 2022 #24

Why is the federal government making predatory loans? MichMan May 2022 #29

This brand of fatalism is ridiculous. tritsofme May 2022 #15

Climate change isn't going to be bad then? Kaleva May 2022 #17

Their lives aren't doomed. But your millenarianism is not as novel as you might think. tritsofme May 2022 #19

So climate change won't ever be much of an issue? Few, if any, will face severe harship? Kaleva May 2022 #35

We're not the first or last generation that has convinced themselves they live in the End Times. tritsofme May 2022 #36

I didn't speak of End Times Kaleva May 2022 #37

This is an odd post. Happy Hoosier May 2022 #16

Climate change is going to have a catastrophic impact on us all Kaleva May 2022 #18

I beg to differ. Happy Hoosier May 2022 #21

Climate change is the biggest issue the human race will face since the beginning of recorded history Kaleva May 2022 #32

Well inthewind21 May 2022 #30

It's your choice if you decide to not try and just give up Kaleva May 2022 #33

There's intersectionality AntivaxHunters May 2022 #31

All the more reason to. Lancero May 2022 #27

I wrote this post last year Kaleva May 2022 #34