2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What Hillary supporters don't understand [View all]You were fortunate enough to where you were able to pay off your student loans. I will never have that or ever be able to because I got sick early on after graduation and so here I sit. Caught in political limbo. There was a time when people could discharge their student loans in bankruptcy but people like Hillary voted for W's bankruptcy bill which changed that. Were you aware of that? Most aren't actually and they find that shocking http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2015/04/16/student_loans_in_bankruptcy_how_the_bush_administration_pointlessly_screwed.html
Myself and millions of others are suffering and we're trapped and finally we have a voice with someone who is the voice of the voiceless--Bernie. Think of this for a second, Millennials are the first generation that will make less than their parents. A lot of that is directly attributed to the student loan crisis. We'll never own homes and we're enslaved the rest of our lives because of debt. Wall Street got a bailout, where's ours?
Bernie is a Democratic Socialist and I really wish Hillary supporters would stop using Trump and Paul Ryan talking point when saying that because it is 100% red baiting. You know this. We know this. Y'all know that Canada is NOT the former USSR. The truth is, socialism is entrenched in American lifestyle. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/3/29/1078852/-75-Ways-Socialism-Has-Improved-America
See, you don't see the other side of the coin and you preach literal Libertarian talking points about fiscal responsibility but the truth is, the Government shouldn't be in the game of making money off those who are just trying to get a damn education! get this--my kiddo is in college in Germany. He goes to school FREE. He will never know a damn thing about student loan debt and guess what, many other countries in Europe do the same. They come out ahead then college students here who are graduating because they can go out and buy the things in life that people who graduated 30 years ago could.
Here, many can't do that. To them, the American Dream is dead.
That's reality. That is why we need Bernie!