ppp loan anecdotes with Rick Daris- I’m really really close friends with two dudes who each got close to half a million in ppp money for businesses that weren’t effected by Covid and that didn’t have to be paid back. One used it to buy a vacation house in Colorado that I’ve now been to three times and the other bought in on a 700 acre working ranch in Texas. I was super happy for both of them but I am always happy when good things happen to other humans. The whole outrage over some student loan debt being forgiven is simultaneously hilarious and dumbfounding to me because I could live to be a million years old and still not understand how one human could be angry that another human had something good happen to them.
If you're going to use the term "outrage" as all encompassing then you've missed the point about the concern regarding precedence as well as the discussion about the root cause as to why student loan debt is even an issue in these United States. Without thinking about it, you're giving tacit approval for colleges and universities to drive a cost structure that outstrips inflation by ridiculous percentages and based on what we know at this time. They're going to be able to keep right on doing it without oversight, without question.
Great deal for them, I suppose.
Dax- I don’t miss any points and stopped reading your response after you suggested I did.
Your post is the living embodiment of "cool story bro".
It was much more than that. I’m very happy with other people getting cool stuff and free money even if I don’t and I don’t understand people who aren’t the same way. I’m guessing they have brain malfunctions but don’t know if the science is there to prove it.
You used the word "outrage". For many people there isn't outrage at debt forgiveness there's "outrage" at the mechanisms that drove the need for debt forgiveness.
If you're happy that your bud used taxpayer money in the middle of a crippling pandemic where people were losing their jobs and didn't have food . . . to buy a vacation home, knock yourself out. I suppose we could say he helped drive a component of the economy.
I’m happy when good things happen to everyone Dax. It isn’t contingent on whether they are my friends or not or whether I’m included in the group that’s getting the free stuff. I can also walk and chew gum at the same time and am capable of being happy for all the people that got free ppp money while simultaneously being bummed for the people who didn’t fare as well during the pandemic. My hunch is that is not possible for you to understand though so we can move past it.
In terms of colleges being expensive, maybe the government can go back to funding it more on the front end like they used to so things like loan forgiveness on the back end isn’t as necessary/helpful. Lastly, if it’s just “outrage” the word that’s bothering you, feel free to replace it with a different but similar word. I’m not attached to it.