A new bill would forgive the student debt of health-care workers fighting coronavirus

[Blimey]

A new bill would forgive the student debt of health-care workers fighting coronavirus

On Tuesday, New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney proposed a bill that would eliminate the student debt of health-care workers treating coronavirus patients.

www.cnbc.com

The Student Loan Forgiveness for Frontline Health Workers Act, co-signed by nine other House Democrats, would forgive the outstanding balance of interest and principal due on the federal and private student loans of qualifying frontline health-care workers.

Holy sweet Jesus, this is going to f us if the democrats get their way on this sort of rank nonsense. Doctors, too? So $300k in debt gone because a doctor actually did their job?

It's important we level set here. We have not asked any health care workers to treat people with the black plague. We are asking them to do things they were trained for. We don't give firemen hazard pay for going into a burning building. It's a damn job. They trained for this. Infectious disease is nothing new, and this isn't some airborne zombie plague, either. Moreover, the vast majority of these workers have not had a pay cut during this, which I can't say for a lot of the rest of the country. I'm sorry, they don't need debt forgiveness.

I assume this bill goes nowhere, but the republican stance that dems are trying to use this to turn us into a socialist country is supported by an awful lot of evidence.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

Start with one......spirals out of control till EVERYTHING is free.

 

[BDinPutnam]

"YOU GET FREE MONEY... AND YOU GET FREE MONEY... AND *YOU* GET FREE MONEY!"

I mean seriously where does this shit stop?

 

[Darth]

As long as it doesn't come out of my tax money.

It's amazing how many people are "heroes" these days doing the job they signed up for.

 

[Apeman]

I agree. This debt forgiveness is going too far. I have no problem allowing people to move payments to the back end of the loan if they can't pay now, but people shouldn't expect these few months payments or total debts to be wiped out. You borrowed the money so you should have to pay it back. That dumb twatwaffle AOC wants to cancel rent and mortgage payments for the next few months. As in here live rent free and don't bother to pay at all. WTF? Some people are making more on unemployment than they were before. Some are making the same since the feds kicked in the extra money. There's no reason most people can't pay their rent.
I also hate it when they single out a group for special treatment. So somebody decides to be an architect, mechanic, or lawyer instead of a doctor or nurse. Sucks to be them because they have to pay off their debt? That's bullshit. It's no different than allowing leos to have a "normal" AR15 with 30 round mags. Some people don't want to be cops. Why should they not be afforded the same rights/privileges? I am mostly pro cop so don't don't think I'm hating on them. I just hate the special treatment they get. It takes workers in every field to either make things run, allow people to eat out or shop at the mall.

 

[Deplorable Me]

My sis was a USAF nurse. The new USAF docs would have to serve a 4 year hitch before loans were forgiven. Some ended up in Iraq as trauma surgeons. Covid is bad but this is no combat zone either.

 

[BDinPutnam]

As long as it doesn't come out of my tax money.

It will one way or the other.

 

[Calculon]

Dems are always looking to buy votes - plain and simple.

 

[byron]

If they are going to do that they should pay my daughter back for all she paid to become a nurse

 

[Apeman]

If they are going to do that they should pay my daughter back for all she paid to become a nurse

That's the argument from a lot of people. Millions have paid back their loans. If student debt is erased then those that paid off their debt should be reimbursed.

 

[spat]

"YOU GET FREE MONEY... AND YOU GET FREE MONEY... AND *YOU* GET FREE MONEY!"

I mean seriously where does this shit stop?

When the US looks like Venezuela.

 

[BDinPutnam]

When the US looks like Venezuela.

Hopefully they'll implement price controls too so inflation doesn't spiral out of control!

 

[spat]

Hopefully they'll implement price controls too so inflation doesn't spiral out of control!

Sarcasm is hard to convey in text, but I almost drown in that post

 

[Jmac00]

As long as it doesn't come out of my tax money.

It's amazing how many people are "heroes" these days doing the job they signed up for.

I said this in another thread, the word *hero* has no meaning anymore

Nurses are Hero's
Truck drivers are Hero's
Orderlies are Hero's.....
hero is way over used

 

[Darth]

I said this in another thread, the word *hero* has no meaning anymore

Nurses are Hero's
Truck drivers are Hero's
Orderlies are Hero's.....
hero is way over used

Fast food workers.

I guess if you've ever had a busy week/month at work now you are a hero.

 

[BDinPutnam]

Fast food workers.

I guess if you've ever had a busy week/month at work now you are a hero.

Sweet I have been a hero for like 20 years and didnt even know it!

 

[Saltwater60]

Open the flood gate and you can’t close it. It’s $2,000/month now free college, soon free health care. We’re screwed.
Those people make enough money. They don’t need their debt forgiven. What will you do forgive only those that worked with Covid patients? All DRs, nurses, how about secretaries, orderlies? Where’s the cutoff.

 

[jimc]

I have a friend whose wife is a nurse. She's worked in a few hospitals in a few different states. Every hospital she's worked for has paid her student debt while she's worked there. I don't know how common this is, it may just be they really need people in her field. But this sounds like a solution to a problem that might not exist.

 

[pjzwtl]

How about a bill preventing my tax $$ from paying for illegal immigrants free college. Or my tax dollars paying for college in general. There’s a reason higher ed has gotten pricey..free money does that

 

[pjzwtl]

As long as it doesn't come out of my tax money.

It's amazing how many people are "heroes" these days doing the job they signed up for.

I’ll be honest it’s personally embarrassing.

 

[BDinPutnam]

How about a bill preventing my tax $$ from paying for illegal immigrants free college. Or my tax dollars paying for college in general. There’s a reason higher ed has gotten pricey..free money does that

Yup. Get the govt out of it and go back to people having to actually finance it and watch the administrator salaries at colleges come down and head count diminish.

Plus college is an income multiplier. This basically becomes a handout not to the underclass but the middle and upper middle class.

I worked all up to and thru college and took a job at a high prestige sweat shop of a law firm when I graduated. Paid off my BA in like 8 years and dont regret it a bit not least because I got great experience and a hell of a good start on my resume out of it.

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

I’ll be honest it’s personally embarrassing.

I was actually thinking about this the other day. How many of these nurses and doctors are embarrassed about being called a hero? I know I would be. I'd be like "uhhh... I'm just doing my job". It's nonsense.

 

[dwa12479]

It'd sure suck to be that guy that JUST made the last student loan payment a few months ago.

 

[Blimey]

Hopefully they'll implement price controls too so inflation doesn't spiral out of control!

The problem with price controls has always been that when the price is too low there is not enough production, so there are shortages.

I just had the bright idea to change this. Just mandate minimum production rates as well. If you limit the price of food, tvs, cars, etc. but also you mandate by law that they have to produce x amount of food, tvs, cars, etc. you could see a society in which we are full of options and yet cars are all like $3k brand new. Could do the same for houses, too. $20k house seems good to me.

So to summarize: $3k cars, $20k houses. Unlimited milk at $1/gallon, and automatic minimum income of $70k/year, so that people can hold their heads high and proud to be American.

 

[repete]

I said this in another thread, the word *hero* has no meaning anymore

Nurses are Hero's
Truck drivers are Hero's
Orderlies are Hero's.....
hero is way over used

I'm a trucker and had a family member say something about me being a hero, I looked over my shoulder and thought "who me?"
I'm no hero, I'm just a guy doing a job that I accepted years ago, just because a flu bug or bad weather sweeps the country doesn't mean anyones a hero. The guy that dives into freezing water to pull out a drowning kid THATS A HERO!

 

[Blimey]

I'm a trucker and had a family member say something about me being a hero, I looked over my shoulder and thought "who me?"
I'm no hero, I'm just a guy doing a job that I accepted years ago, just because a flu bug or bad weather sweeps the country doesn't mean anyones a hero. The guy that dives into freezing water to pull out a drowning kid THATS A HERO!

To me a hero is somebody who's acting in an unusual way in an unusual circumstance. As in: a scenario that most people, including them, did't think they'd find themselves in, and then they act in a particularly courageous, self-sacrificing way.

So, no, a fast food worker definitely does not count.

 

[spat]

The problem with price controls has always been that when the price is too low there is not enough production, so there are shortages.

I just had the bright idea to change this. Just mandate minimum production rates as well. If you limit the price of food, tvs, cars, etc. but also you mandate by law that they have to produce x amount of food, tvs, cars, etc. you could see a society in which we are full of options and yet cars are all like $3k brand new. Could do the same for houses, too. $20k house seems good to me.

So to summarize: $3k cars, $20k houses. Unlimited milk at $1/gallon, and automatic minimum income of $70k/year, so that people can hold their heads high and proud to be American.

Will we have enough unicorns for all the fairies to ride in this world ?

As soon as your mandated price drops below profitability people will just stop making them. You could force people to keep makeing things against their will i suppose. It used to be pretty common.

There was a word for it, started with a "S"

What will you do when the farmer can't make $70k/year with milk selling for $1/gallon ?

I know you're not being serious, but there really are people out there who think like this.

 

[Robin]

I have it on good authority a hero is some kind of weird sandwich.
Robin

 

[Blimey]

As soon as your mandated price drops below profitability people will just stop making them.

Easy. More mandates.

 

[libertysnake]

"YOU GET FREE MONEY... AND YOU GET FREE MONEY... AND *YOU* GET FREE MONEY!"