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“I think we can best do that by giving people access to education, health care, housing, food, and physical safety.”

No one is “punishing” anyone. There are homeless people freezing to death who could use the money.

You are conflating life and death necessities like food and shelter with someone wanting to binge drink for 4 years while getting an underwater basketweaving degree.

Bernie did the same thing.

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Here's the thing I love about these arguments, they choose the most BS degrees instead of arguing from a stronger case of actually societally helpful degrees that people get and still can't pay off loans with. If you want me to pretend like you have a strong case stop picking literally the stupidest degrees that no one is complaining about.

I know plenty of people who went to 4-year colleges to get Social Studies degrees, and then went on to do social work, and guess what? Social Work doesn't pay well enough to make up for that. In one case I know, literally helping the homeless people who are freezing to death. And the person had to stop doing that work cause they still couldn't pay off their loans.

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