If that's "buying votes", what is promising to end DEI, deport all ... -- HowieT3 02/21/2024 1:56PM
The Whattameter pegs in a good thread (from both camps) ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:40PM
You mean the fact checks ** -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 1:41PM
It’s a dumb policy. I wish there was a conservative alternative to the Dems -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2024 12:40PM
Do the recipients not understand that Biden is old? They should reject $ ** -- Fuzzy Dunlop 02/21/2024 12:21PM
...but Old money is supah!!! ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:28PM
LOL wow ** -- HokieDan95 02/21/2024 12:25PM
Not even close try again ** -- HokieJamie 02/21/2024 11:27AM
To date. Not today. And sadly probably not the total. ** -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:06PM
🎣 ** -- HoodatB 02/21/2024 12:28PM
Yes, several here were fish hooked in their rush to "get" Dexter, and thus -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:38PM
Scroll down stooge ** -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 12:47PM
You were wrong in your desperate haste to "get" Dexter. Be and Be Better. ** -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:56PM
No, I wasn’t. Not sure where you went to college,, but a UVA grad -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 12:58PM
Dexter is right. It's $138B to date. Today's $1.2B was just a portion of -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 1:13PM
You’re a stooge, who refuses to learn ** -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 1:43PM
OK Groomer. ** -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 2:18PM
Off by a factor of 115 x isn’t close? ** -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 11:30AM
138b since he took office -- DexterLake 02/21/2024 11:32AM
So two things. First as pointed out by multiple posters below, -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 12:46PM
Super safe CNN link to the 138 Billion number (click) -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 11:34AM
What, one supposes, could this line from that CNN link, mean? -- southdenverhoo 02/21/2024 12:21PM
Obama "paulosees" (spelled phonetically) ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:27PM
That seems kinda important!! ** -- hooshouse 02/21/2024 12:23PM
Not if you actually pause and think for once. -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:55PM
Right, but if you're going to criticize Biden for expanding it, you should -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2024 1:18PM
Almost all of the student debt forgiveness programs are dumb, regardless of -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 1:31PM
Meant 20 to 15 years... not % -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2024 1:50PM
Yep, that's what I meant for select public service. Where you're taking a -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 2:01PM
The programs that had the loans being paid off existed before Joe -- HoodatB 02/21/2024 12:59PM
Apparently for you it is. -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 1:16PM
Couldn’t even bother paying off $12,000 loans -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 1:42PM
Yes, if you can't do that in 10 yrs, I'm fine suggesting you're not trying -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 2:17PM
Explain to me how this is just Joey’s fault. -- HoodatB 02/21/2024 6:07PM
Huh? He's the one signing the EO's to allow it. Is that Trump's fault too? ** -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 8:00PM
Oh, there’s even more -- Hoodeac 02/21/2024 12:29PM
LOL. Republicans aren’t serious people. ** -- hooshouse 02/21/2024 12:30PM
Probably not, to Dex... ** -- southdenverhoo 02/21/2024 12:27PM
A politician following through on a campaign promise what a concept. -- HokieJamie 02/21/2024 11:38AM
If Bidenomics is so awesome why is this needed? ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:22PM
Its a stupid fucking policy and it is shameless vote buy. An insult. -- nyhoo 02/21/2024 12:14PM
Absolutely. But TBF they dismiss and deflect, and occasionally defend stuff -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:46PM
Or maybe we’re just trying to correct garbage passed off as fact ** -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 12:48PM
Do you mean this garbage? -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:51PM
As I explained elsewhere, his post being in the present tense -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 12:57PM
In your haste, you were wrong, it's not just $1.2B that has been cancelled. -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 1:18PM
You’re a stooge. There’s information in this string that shows you you’re -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 1:37PM
But tax cuts for the 1% and corporations are A-OK, right? -- Hoodeac 02/21/2024 12:23PM
So why haven't Joey and the Dems reversed those? Or even tried? -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:49PM
OK groomer ** -- Hoodeac 02/21/2024 1:11PM
They should. But nobody wants to raise taxes. Cowards. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 12:50PM
That's the truth. Decades of tax policy has pushed trillions of dollars to -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 12:45PM
Vote buy ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 11:41AM
Buh tax cuts aren't vote buys. That's different, aMiRiTe? ** -- TomGlansAski 02/21/2024 12:02PM
Not at all comparable. There is an economic rationale for tax cuts and -- nyhoo 02/21/2024 12:17PM
Sorry, I disagree -- particularly when the vast majority of the benefit -- TomGlansAski 02/21/2024 1:00PM
Sure there is. Young people are more likely to spend that extra money -- Plano Hoo 02/21/2024 12:33PM
Correct. And the old GOP logic about how tax cuts incentivize additional -- TomGlansAski 02/21/2024 1:03PM
They both are vote buys...is that hard to admit? ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:04PM
Ok, I'll play. Now let's look at magnitude. Biden is canceling $1.2B in -- TomGlansAski 02/21/2024 1:11PM
Buying votes is as old as democracy. Why is this an issue? ** -- SixerHoo 02/21/2024 1:01PM
No reason at all, Little Green Apple. ** -- ResistHoo 02/21/2024 1:15PM
33 Trillion reasons? ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 1:04PM
See my post above. Biden's policy contributes 0.003% of that. Trump's -- TomGlansAski 02/21/2024 1:14PM
My question goes to it being a pointless debate. Politicians buy votes. -- SixerHoo 02/21/2024 1:10PM
Everything in politics is a vote buy these days ** -- HokieJamie 02/21/2024 12:02PM
It sends a really bad message about personal responsibility! ** -- Hooooooooooooooo 02/21/2024 11:55AM
It also hoses a bunch of people. The millions who have already paid off -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:02PM
A manly power company lineman paying off a woke art history student's debt? -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 12:04PM
You added woke...not me. The Art History major may really like the films -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:07PM
Your whole post was an exercise in grievance and resentment directed -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 12:08PM
...but is it untrue? ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:09PM
Yes, it's bullshit. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 12:12PM
So where is the money coming from to forgive the loans? ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:13PM
They just write it off. -- ResistHoo 02/21/2024 1:29PM
You mean to replace the monthly loan payments. Loan forgiveness is a loss. -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 12:55PM
Added to the debt, like everything else. Duh. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 12:19PM
Your great grandchildren ** -- BocaHoo91 02/21/2024 12:19PM
Added to our kids and grandkids tab. They're so screwed. ** -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:14PM
You’re not worried about the future of this country or this -- hooshouse 02/21/2024 12:34PM
Apparently you don't read them "for understanding", comrade. ** -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:39PM
You tell us what you believe every day. If you don’t believe what you’re -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 12:59PM
Stilk way less than trump added ** -- HokieJamie 02/21/2024 12:21PM
What does Trump adding $7.8T to the debt say about responsibility? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 12:00PM
It says that rich people like trump are more concerned with helping out -- Hooooooooooooooo 02/21/2024 2:01PM
Same people voted for those Bush tax cuts… -- hooshouse 02/21/2024 12:24PM
PPP loans were an excercise in responsibility! -- Shenhoo 02/21/2024 12:05PM
Trump added $3.3T BEFORE the pandemic with tax cuts in an economic -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 12:07PM
We have not seen Joe's final tally as yet...creeping up fast on Orange man ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:12PM
Yes, we'll have see what Biden's is after his 8 years. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 12:18PM
Joe is currently on an 8.8 Trillion pace just in first term ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 12:21PM
Don't confuse them with reality. ** -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:42PM
By Joe I presume you mean Biden? And how do you figure? His debt record -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 12:32PM
Or $1.2 billion. Here’s a link. It seems to be targeted to people most -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 11:24AM
LOL! "Likely to need it most"? -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:11PM
Or you have no disposable income. But another very elitist comment from you -- 111Balz 02/21/2024 2:06PM
Billion is the new Million ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 11:31AM
It's close as viewed through a BDS lens Cap. -- Shenhoo 02/21/2024 11:31AM
No way. They're saying it's $1.2 TRILLION! Loan forgiveness skyrocketing! ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 11:29AM
Cap Frankly rounded up a tad! ** -- Shenhoo 02/21/2024 11:28AM
It's a good thing he has presidential immunity, huh Dex? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 02/21/2024 11:21AM
Good -- F* Trump --lock his orange @ss up. ** -- Skeets 02/21/2024 11:21AM
Fake news - if Joey could do that with pen and phone... -- ResistHoo 02/21/2024 11:20AM
Is it buying votes when Trump cuts corporate tax rates? ** -- Plano Hoo 02/21/2024 11:18AM
No. Is it dumb that you asked that question? Yes. ** -- Hoodafan 02/21/2024 12:08PM
No, companies have actually worked to make their money -- TomKazanski 02/21/2024 11:43AM
So its ok if a President doesn't collect enough money to pay the bills he -- Plano Hoo 02/21/2024 12:10PM
He's buying donations. ** -- Shenhoo 02/21/2024 11:29AM
Just not as many votes involved -- NJHoo 02/21/2024 11:20AM
But MUCH more in donations. Money is speech, too, ya know? ** -- Hoo TV 02/22/2024 08:58AM
Yep...and a different group bitches about it...the ones cheering this ** -- Tuckahokie 02/21/2024 11:20AM
If you are going to give a tax cut, you have to pay for it somehow. -- Plano Hoo 02/21/2024 12:15PM