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Student debt crisis opportunity :)
- Behold: the woke right
- Where have you gone, Robert Moses?
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Student debt crisis opportunity :) |
As a flurry of “Biden forgave my student debt” posts went viral this week, CNN reported the “relief” has contributed to a 27% jump in the 2024 budget deficit. For context, that’s about $1.2 trillion on top of the $35 trillion I guess we’re never paying back. But now that we’ve acknowledged student debt is a crisis, why is the government still lending out shit tons of money? It’s obvious there’s no way to continue on our current path without dooming every single student plugged into the system, so we’re left with one, stunning conclusion: doom is the point. You buy a kid’s vote when you “loan” them the cash, you buy it again a couple decades later when you let them keep it, and the entire bloated academic system lives to grift another day. Turns out it’s hard to solve a crisis when you see it as an opportunity.
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Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry just signed a bill requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public classroom in the state, the first law of its kind since the Supreme Court struck down a similar Kentucky law back in 1980. The commandments are, of course, a cherished symbol of Judeo-Christian values, which the more successful half of the world runs on, six of which are codified in law. It's a great, Lindy text. We love the Ten Commandments! But also wtf? This is clearly not constitutional, and who does it help? A glossy poster in Papyrus font won't fix Louisiana's 23% school absenteeism problem — but it will give the craziest lefties on the other side of this debate a good excuse for further histrionics. As culture shifts, we don’t need laws designed, above all things, to piss off half the country. We just need everyone, for at least a minute, to stop being crazy.
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Where have you gone, Robert Moses? |
The federal government just released a report apologizing for the “grave harms” inflicted on Native American tribes by the hydroelectric dams constructed in the Pacific Northwest in the early 20th century, promising redress in the form of “tribally sponsored clean energy” and a new “task force on wild salmon.” And sure, this is all really stupid. But I truly wouldn’t care if the government was throwing money at Yakama Nation-branded windmills, or fake jobs for environmental studies majors, if we were actually still capable of building the infrastructure in question. But in 2024? When one state-built EV charger costs $25 million and takes 7 years to build? I’m having a difficult time feeling anything other than reverence for the Americans who once constructed the Hoover Dam. Instill that reverence in your children, folks, and we might just have a chance. We need another Robert Moses.
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