Knowledge is power, and the GOP can't have educated people around...gotta keep that shit in check and keep our kids stupid so they can't ask questions, you know?
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US Healthcare system is the worst in the world by any measure from cost to outcomes
Republicans: lets do the same to the education system.
Suprise to know their even was one.
How you all haven't had a revolution I'll never understand.
When the capitol of the country is possibly thousands of miles away, and missing work means losing health insurance and becoming homeless, it terrifies a lot of people that can't even miss one day of work for being sick, let alone the days' journey and expense it would take. Much longer than the maximum 8 hour drive it would take to get from anywhere in Germany to Berlin, by comparison.
Not an excuse either, the US is just huge, and set up for citizens to fail if they actually stand up.
Jan 6th 2021
Those morons didn't come from DC, distance didn't keep them from acting!
Oddly if you look into a lot of them, there were a lot of "small business owners" that aren't beholden to a company or people connected to someone else's wealth, or illegal under the table wealth, or other shady things. It has been a while since I looked into it, but it was a combination of personal fiscal stupid decisions, access to rich with money to burn. The tl;dr was basically: they didn't care what they did to themselves because they thought The Orange Oompa McBurger Loompa was going to anoint them all soldiers of his magic rich person court.
When you have a fatalist/selfish/sure-thing psychology working "outside" the system, you really don't care if your kids have medication, and you don't lose your health insurance because you're taking Ivermectin from the neighborhood vet that sells it under the table.
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I'd love to be at the protests tomorrow. Why it's on a weekday I'm not sure, but my capitol is hours away, and I work. I just started a new job and barely make enough to make ends meet until I get my first commission checks. I wasn't working for months prior.
I literally can't afford to go protest.
Bread and circuses. No one wants to revolt.
"The super bowl is on and I just heated up some nacho cheese dip."
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You mean the White House is preparing an executive order for protests so they can still gitmo faster?
So, the DOE handles student loans. No DOE, what happens to the loans?
I'm sure the "servicers" will continue to collect. Republicans went out of their way to file a suit on behalf of one of them that triggered relief getting blocked.
Don't worry, they will make sure to close all of the loopholes that might actually benefit the working class.
Yep, student loan repayment is the one point on which politicians will grow a spine and object. God forbid they unite on anything else.
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Yeah, you would think that would get rid of the loans, but realistically they'll just sell the loans to some bank, and then a political solution to debt forgiveness becomes completely impossible.
They also manage the school vouchers. It's literally getting in the way of their own goals. Something I mentioned months ago.
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Give the power back to the states but create a credentialing system to weed out 'unpatriotic' teachers. Shall that be left to the states too?
This is a good choice as they just sit around and do nothing all day anyway considering who got elected.
the federal department does some very important assistance to state departments and students, but it is worth noting that states do basically all of the actual control and management of schools
Smart voters are just no good.
Have to continue to create more stupid people to follow him.