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About 75% of the people I work with went to college & have a load of student loans.

I left school at 16 & was dossing about in Europe at 17.

Yet here we are all stacking shelves together.

The only benefit I can see for them is that they get to look down on me because they have a Bachelor's degree in liberal arts and a $100,000 debt to show for it :lol:
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Danny's Dyer Acting wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 7:57 pm $10-20k of student loan debt being wiped out for anyone household with an income of under $125k.
Repayments threshold lifted and capped at 5% of your monthly earnings.
I think there's also something in there about a 20 year limit being put in place on repayments.
20m people benefitting, could be as many as 14m having all of their remaining debt wiped out.


Yes it's clearly a policy designed to win votes. Much better than the one from his predecessor that gave businesses a permanent tax cut and the middle classes a temporary one though.
Like healthcare, these reforms will be described as "socialism", when really they're just the hyper capitalist yanks taking a small step towards the sort of system most westerners experience as normal.
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SammyLeeWasOffside wrote: Wed Aug 24, 2022 9:04 pm Does anyone in the US pay off their student debt? Our system is just waiting to collapse it seems to me. It's going to be billions that never gets repaid.

If you have paid your debt off in the US do you get '$10k back?
Obviously not. Much like businesses that didn't take or paid back PPP loans (one of their govt programs to help firms through COVID) got nothing when all of those were wiped clean.
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WE BEAT BIG PHARMA, WE BEAT BIG PHARMA...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/02/busi ... index.html

Pfizer revenue and profits soar on its Covid vaccine business


https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireSto ... t-84463991

Pfizer profit soars in first quarter, revises 2022 forecast

Sales of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and treatment pushed the drugmaker well past expectations in the first quarter, as profit grew 61%

chuffin' Nora Joe, I'd hate to see the numbers if you'd lost..
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Reading the Speccie's article about Twitter, Biden and ex/current FBI employees who worked for Twitter pre-Musk.

"What is increasingly clear is that the FBI and Twitter were working hand-in-glove to suppress what they deemed to be ‘misinformation’ — which actually turned out to be a true story about the now President’s son. The level of ‘collusion’ — to use a word we heard a lot in relation to Russia and Trump in 2016 — between law enforcement agencies, partisan political actors, and Big Tech is starting to become painfully clear. "
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When are they going to release this Twitter Files bombshell then? So far it was just a nude of Biden's son wasn't it?

Which to be fair may have made some people less likely to vote for his dad if people saw it
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Unsurprisingly that article in the Spectator has some issues. They cite this as the most damning piece of "evidence" that's been released:

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4 of those links can be found on archive sites and are posts which shared naked photos of Hunter Biden and others. Photos stolen from a stolen laptop. So their "most shocking document" is just Twitter carrying out a basic enforcement of their rules.

The article is positioned as exposing really troubling "collusion" between Biden's campaign (which is not good but nothing to do with their precious first amendment). Skims over this pretty quickly though - "requests from Donald Trump’s team were also ‘received and honoured’, according to Taibbi" - actual evidence of the government wanting posts removed.

Final point, there's a couple of really odd omission in this "journalists" summary of what happened with people at Twitter deciding to treat the story from the New York Post under these "hacked materials" rules.

1) In a story put together with completely free access to these email archives and framed as politicians meddling in social media, there's nothing from anyone in politics asking them to suppress this story.
2) There is one conversation involving a senator or congressman. He tells them they've overstepped and should rethink. And he's a Democrat.
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I don't understand why America is always so obsessed with the presidents kids.

Not talking about just this one with the weird name (why name your child Hunter?) but all of them.

They still follow W's kids around. Obama's too.

It's just a politicians offspring.
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Well done Joe, you got one of the American hostages out of Russia. :newthumb:
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Shabu wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 3:23 pm It's just a politicians offspring.
But in America isn't it more like a dynasty?

Give it a few years and they’ll be running for the White House.
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Hummer_I_mean_Hammer wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 4:44 pm But in America isn't it more like a dynasty?

Give it a few years and they’ll be running for the White House.
Possibly. The Clinton girl might.

trump older boys would like to but even trump supporters think they're clowns. Maybe the youngest one will in 30 years after his dad has become a full on religious icon.

Obama girls look more artsy.
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the pink palermo wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 4:40 pm Well done Joe, you got one of the American hostages out of Russia. :newthumb:
The US and Russia have exchanged jailed US basketball star Brittney Griner for notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, held in an American prison for 12 years.

great value there.

Obama did something similar.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/president- ... oner-swap/

President Obama defended his decision Tuesday to swap five senior Taliban figures held for years at the Guantanamo Bay military prison for one American soldier, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held by the group for five years after disappearing from his base in Afghanistan.

Sgt. Bergdahl apparently went AWOL

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bowe-bergd ... 0-27-2017/

The testimony came during the sentencing phase for Bergdahl, who faces up to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Bergdahl was held captive by Taliban allies for five years after abandoning his remote post in 2009.

Several witnesses described a search mission by U.S. and Afghan troops to comb two villages for information related to Bergdahl days after he disappeared.

Among the most vivid testimony came from Jonathan Morita, describing how his hand was shattered by a rocket-propelled grenade. He has since had multiple surgeries and is left without full use of his right hand.
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Polling in the States today suggests that the electorate don't want either Biden or Trump stand again.
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bubbles1966 wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 6:20 pm Polling in the States today suggests that the electorate don't want either Biden or Trump stand again.
The republicans won't let The Don run again no matter what he says, his "endorsed" candidates didn't fare very well in the mid terms. those he did endorse and won, were more than likely going to win anyway.

Biden is WAY too old, the Dems won't let him run again. he'll cite "ill health" or similar so as not to lose face.

DeSantis will be the front runner for the Republicans and I haven't a clue who will front the Dems ticket.
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bloody good job getting a basketball star released meanwhile this poor bugger is still there, 4 years later.

https://news.yahoo.com/paul-whelan-105811810.html



A U.S.-Russia prisoner swap of WNBA player Brittney Griner for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout has put a renewed spotlight on Paul Whelan, another American detained by the Kremlin. U.S. officials say that despite their best efforts, they haven't been able to secure his release. Is Whelan's conviction for alleged espionage making negotiations more difficult? Here's everything you need to know:

Who is Paul Whelan?

Paul Whelan, 52, is a U.S. citizen who has been detained in Russia on espionage charges for the past four years. Whelan, a former U.S. Marine, also has citizenship in Ireland, Britain, and Canada. He worked in law enforcement before and after his military service. At the time of his arrest, Whelan was working as the director of global security for BorgWarner, an auto parts supplier based in Michigan.


Whelan was arrested by Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, at a Moscow hotel on Dec. 28, 2018. The FSB claimed he was carrying out "an espionage operation," which resulted in his arrest. Whelan's brother David said Whelan was in Moscow for the wedding of a fellow Marine. The morning of the wedding, Whelan gave the couple a tour of the Kremlin, but they stopped hearing from him before the ceremony. He was arrested after allegedly receiving a USB drive containing "state secrets" while in Moscow. Whelen said he thought the drive held an acquaintance's vacation photos.

The FSB did not confirm that Whelan was in their custody until days after his arrest. Jon Huntsman, the U.S. ambassador to Russia at the time, was able to visit Whelan in detention nearly a week after his initial arrest. A U.S. government representative was supposed to have been able to see him within 72 hours of his arrest, but the meeting was delayed.

Whelan's arrest came weeks after accused Russian spy Maria Butina pleaded guilty in U.S. federal court to charges of influencing U.S. relations with Russia before and after the 2016 presidential election. Some people have speculated that Whelan's arrest might have been in retaliation for Butina's conviction.
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Bidens played a blinder in these mid terms, especially the world economy and inflation being what it is. If he were 10 years younger he'd be bang on for a second term wouldn't he?
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YGNB wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 8:02 pm Bidens played a blinder in these mid terms, especially the world economy and inflation being what it is. If he were 10 years younger he'd be bang on for a second term wouldn't he?
maybe. he can't conduct a sentence on his own right now maybe were he younger he could.

in fact some of the time he can't even read his teleprompter..
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/politics ... index.html


Asked about concerns inside the administration about the potential for a surge at the border once Title 42 goes away, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listed off a series of personnel, processing and infrastructure efforts that have been put into place.


Already, over the weekend, more than 2,400 migrants crossed into the United States each day in only one section of the border, according to a senior Border Patrol official, marking what he described as a “major surge in illegal crossings” in the El Paso, Texas, sector.

Homeland Security officials have described the mood within the administration as concerned and worried about an influx in the near term.
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Cuenca 'ammer wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 6:02 pm https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/politics ... index.html


Asked about concerns inside the administration about the potential for a surge at the border once Title 42 goes away, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre listed off a series of personnel, processing and infrastructure efforts that have been put into place.


Already, over the weekend, more than 2,400 migrants crossed into the United States each day in only one section of the border, according to a senior Border Patrol official, marking what he described as a “major surge in illegal crossings” in the El Paso, Texas, sector.

Homeland Security officials have described the mood within the administration as concerned and worried about an influx in the near term.
I love it when immigrants complain about immigrants in a land built by immigrants :lol:
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I'm an immigrant from the States AND here in Ecuador.

did both completely legally.

that's the difference.

I fell sorry for the people going about it the right way.

I had a 3 year wait to get into the States.

loads more like how I did it are probably still waiting...and on top of that, hardly ANY background checks. get a ticket and promise to come back. and then don't.
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