Performing to expectations, the Biden Administration is moving along as many vectors as possible to expand the burden of the federal government in our lives.
This week, not only has Jungle Joe sent the first $1 billion of a promised $11 billion to “save the Amazon rain forest” (which, the last time I looked, was not in the U.S., and even if it were, the showering of federal money to “save” lands is not sanctioned by the U.S. Constitution), he expanded his already enormous and improperly named “college debt forgiveness” scheme, a scheme that actually shifts that debt onto us.
Oh, and by the way, this is even MORE insulting, because it’s solely to the benefit of “public workers,” i.e., people who already draw their income from the tax trough we have to fill.
“President Joe Biden's administration announced on Friday another $4.28 billion dollars in student loan relief for nearly 55,000 public service workers.
The announcement brings the total loan forgiveness by the Biden administration to ‘approximately $180 billion for nearly 5 million Americans,’ according to a fact sheet from the Department of Education.
The forgiveness will be delivered to individuals enrolled in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program (PSLF), which allows for debt forgiveness for people in jobs like firefighting, nursing and teaching after 10 years of continuous payment.”
So, of course, one can see that the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program already exists, and this is an expansion of it.
“Of the nearly 5 million borrowers who have had more than $180 billion in debt relieved by the administration, more than 1 million were through the PSLF. The relief for those PSLF borrowers totals about $78 billion, the administration said.”
And ABC added:
“The Biden administration has made fixes to this program that had failed to deliver student loan relief to many due to poor implementations and errors in the program, officials said.
‘The public servants approved for debt cancellation today include teachers, nurses, service members, law enforcement officials, and other public service workers who have dedicated their lives to giving back to their communities and who are finally earning the relief they are entitled to under the law,’ Biden said in a statement.”
Heartwarming, isn’t it. The spirit of giving lives on with Biden – except he is “giving” your money to the “public servants” to pay off college loans that they willingly took to pay for their “educations.”
So, now, they can be doubly parasitic. Working for government as “public servants” and getting you to pay their college debt.
Just who, exactly, is the “servant” here?
This comes atop previous unconstitutional Biden moves to shift college debt onto others, including his previous expansion of that aforementioned “PSLF”, which he served up along with a glowing history of the PSLF graft in one of his previous “press releases” about it.
Then there is the April, 2024, Biden mobilization to work around a 2023 Supreme Court decision that ordered him to stop using the “HEROES” act (which allows military members legally to NOT pay their creditors or landlords when those military are called into action, and which presents its own immense constitutional problems). In that deft move, Biden’s puppet-control squad proposed new rules under the Higher Education Act of 1965. So Biden has begun shifting onto us the loans of borrowers whose interest debt had grown so much, they owed more than they borrowed, and shifting onto us the debt of those who had been in repayment for 20 or 25 years.
And there is the 2023 “SAVE” program, which lowered interest rates for the borrowers who got undergraduate educations, despite what they agreed to pay. Save has cost us nearly $1.2 billion, forcing on us the promised payments of nearly 153,000 borrowers.
AND there is the so-called “IDR” or “Income-Driven Relief” program that has as its roots the Obama-era series of college loan shifts that they, also, loved to call “forgiveness.”
Related: As Expected, Biden Dodges Supreme Court, Shifts Nearly $40B In Student Debt To Taxpayers
Under Biden, the IDR fraud has pushed onto us nearly $46 billion in debt that had been taken on by more than 930,000 borrowers.
And the hand-wringing we saw throughout, the crocodile tears of the political elite who tell us proles that we have to shoulder the burdens that others willingly adopted came, as noted earlier, atop previous Obama-Biden Administration college debt shifts such as the 2012 Pay As You Earn (PAYE) scheme, which, after expansion in 2014, capped the monthly payments of borrowers at 10% of their discretionary income, with any remaining balance forgiven after 20 years of payments for undergraduate loans (or 25 years for graduate loans), or 10 years for those in public service through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
How nice of them.
Perhaps some of the students whose debt we now will pay and which future generations of taxpayers will pay (because the US is breeding generations of debt-slaves) – yes, perhaps some of them might learn the fundamentals involved here.
Those pertain to simple facts and principles.
On the Constitutional level, these students might ask where in the vaunted US Constitution the feds find the enumerated power to handle college loans, let alone “forgive” them by shifting the costs onto us.
And on the deeper level, perhaps they might ask how anyone can claim the moral authority to tell anyone else to pay for something…
That moral principle seems to be lost in America today, buried under layer upon layer, year upon year, of cynical political sediment, the blasted ashes of ethics, the torching of Natural Rights.
Until more people acknowledge the sovereignty of their neighbors and allow for equal preservation of one’s rights, this favoritism and fascism will grow, and the politicians will hand themselves roses for looking so sweet and kind.
And we will have to pay for the roses, as well.