Is This To Be A Country of Serfs?

 I felt the burden of my student loans. I saw the decline of lawyers going into solo practice and attributed this to student loan debt. No one with student loans is in a position to be anything but a wage slave. The United States Supreme Court will make sure of this.

‘This decision is a slap in the face’: the real cost of the US student debt ruling 

Scalona graduated in spring 2020 at the height of the pandemic, facing a shrinking job market with $35,000 in student debt. He thought back to his high school years – reconsidering the advice often repeated by well-meaning teachers and parents.

“I was told, don’t worry about how much debt you rack up, because you’ll be able to get a good job and pay it off,” he said. “Now that debt consumes my every action and thought, that anxiety can be really debilitating.”

Scalona doesn’t begrudge his parents and teachers for encouraging him to pursue higher education. He said the American higher education model is a no-win scenario.

“We have this system where, in order to have the chance to climb the social ladder, to have any economic mobility, people like me have to go into a decade plus of debt,” he said.

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But Byrne cautions against treating student debt forgiveness as a purely political or academic exercise. She began advocating for free public college in 2010 after years of grappling with her own shame for struggling with student loan payments.

Byrne described her decades-long “tour through the debt system”, eventually losing wages because of her student loan debt.

“This is an issue that affects the dignity and livelihood of real people,” she said. “You have a chance at relief and support, and people are playing politics with that. And yes, there are ramifications for that.”

Congress should act and will not. Where are all those who got want to help the working class? Where are those who want social/economic mobility? Where are those who say they want to help the little guy? They are not in majority in the House of Representatives.

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