When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work (NYT)

[liberalhistorian]

8. Here in South Dakota, not having a driver's license

can literally be a matter of life and death. The vast majority of the state is rural, and even the cities have little, if any, public transportation and private transportation services are expensive.

This makes no fucking sense at all. If the goddamn repubs don't care about the humanitarian aspects of it, you'd think they'd at least put their cold, calculating reptilian brains to use and realize that, economically, it makes NO sense if you want people to actually be able to pay their student loans back. Then again, this is the party whose tax bill eliminates the interest deduction for student loans as well as the deduction for tuition waivers for graduate students, which could mean an extra ten or twenty thousand dollar tax bill for broke grad students making almost nothing as it is, but working on innovation and research.

They hate the idea of education for anyone but the rich and powerful, and have never been reconciled to all of the programs and loans that allowed the "little people" to get any kind of an education. I don't know who they expect to become the teachers, first responders, nurses, social workers ,etc., of the future, but they probably figure such won't even be needed in the dystopian libertarian hell they're so gleefully planning.