Nassim 'Black Swan' Taleb Blasts Biden's Student-Loan Bailout

Very funny. University creating free thinkers? :D Are you a social justice warrior or what? There is no longer any free-speech allowed anymore at University. Which has been part of the backlash for a while against those institutions.

The universities now have fallen into an idiotic pool where not only free speech is now forbidden, but you can't even go to the school libraries during certain days an hours because of our new (anti-white safe-spaces). Yes, this stupidity is a legal THING now. I thought that was supposed to be racist stuff a generation ago? Not today! There is a double-standard of course, thanks to the libertards. Not to mention whites now are discriminated into entering university because of their (drum roll please),.... white privilege.

And we need to jack up the tuition also because universities are so busy spending fortunes to remove things like RACIST ROCKS. No joke, that's a thing too now!

I for one would be pissed as a US Tax payer if I had to support even more Wokeness like this.

if conservatives actually went to college, maybe things would be different.
 
The basic BS/BA degree has gone the way of the union. Seventy or eighty years ago you needed to go to college to hone your writing skills, acquire higher math proficiency and explore diverse topics of interest. Kids today are taking calculus in the 11th grade. Back then the unions protected workers against unsafe conditions, child labor and negotiated a decent wage - today they primarily protect those that should have been fired long ago and little else.

While both have significantly decreased utility today, the left clings to them because it keeps their power and control via forced union contributions and sky high tuition at universities that enjoy many billions in endowment funds while still accepting gov't financial support. They want your job to be controlled by the union and your ability to get a job to depend on you paying top dollar to sit through four years of liberal indoctrination.

It appears to many (that are paying attention) that both are overplaying their hands today, but it only matters if voters, the courts and the public are going to do something about it.

I agree with your point about the role of the unions not keeping up with the times and potentially harmful to the development of our society but I am a bit confused about their role in shaping education. What has them protecting the incompetent have anything to do with the usefulness of the liberal arts education? The liberal arts education doesn't teach you about unions. They expose the weakness of the union and question their relevancy in today's society just the same.
 
Back then the unions protected workers against unsafe conditions, child labor and negotiated a decent wage - today they primarily protect those that should have been fired long ago and little else.
TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Liberal Arts degrees are needed so you are not all churning out intelligent human machines but instead cultivating free thinkers.
“Free Thinkers” LMFAO

Anyone who thinks differently from the liberal horde is labeled a racist, sexist, misogynist, or some other horrible label and instantly fired from their career and blackballed from society.
 
Doesn't sound like you've had any post-secondary education.

If you actually read the transcript of Biden's remarks of how debt forgiveness is being funded, then you wouldn't be mindlessly regurgitating authoritarian talking points.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...den-announcing-student-loan-debt-relief-plan/

"...Let’s be clear. I hear it all the time, “How do we pay for it?” We pay for it by what we’ve done.

Last year, we cut the deficit by more than $350 billion.

This year, we’re on track to cut it by more than $1.7 trillion by the end of this fiscal year. The single-largest deficit reduction in a single year in the history of America.

And the Inflation Reduction Act is going to cut it by another $300 billion over the next decade because Medicare will be paying less for prescription drugs, and over a trillion dollars if you add it out for the next two decades.

The point is this: There is plenty of deficit reduction to pay for the programs — cumulative deficit reduction — to pay for the programs many times over.

I will never apologize for helping Americans working — working Americans and middle class, especially not to the same folks who voted for a $2 trillion tax cut that mainly benefitted the wealthiest Americans and the biggest corporations, that slowed the economy, didn’t do a hell of a lot for economic growth, and wasn’t paid for and racked up this enormous deficit.

Just as we’ve never apologized when the federal government forgave almost every single cent of over $700 billion in loans to hundreds of thousands of small businesses across the — across America during the pandemic.

No one complained that those loans caused inflation. A lot of these folks and small businesses are working and middle-class families. They needed help. It was the right thing to do.

So, the outrage over helping working people with student — with student loans, I think, is just — simply wrong. Dead wrong.

Third thing: We’re fixing the student loan program system itself. We’ve talked about this at length. This is really important.

We’re proposing to make what’s called an income-driven repayment plan — simple and fair. And here’s how: No one with an undergraduate loan today or in the future, whether for community college or a four-year college, will have to pay more than 5 percent of their discretionary income to repay their loan. That’s income after you pay the necessities like housing, food, and the like.

You currently pay 10 percent. We’re cutting in that in half to 5 percent.

And after you pay your loan for 20 years, your obligation will be fulfilled if it hadn’t already been fulfilled, meaning you won’t have to pay any more — period.

And borrowers whose original balance was less than $12,000, many of whom are community college students, will be done paying just after 10 years.

These changes will save more than $1,000 a year on average for the borrower. It’s a gamechanger.

We’re also fixing what’s called — and this has been the bane of — driving me crazy when I was out of office — the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Now, this program forgives student loans to encourage those students who have those loans if they go into public service.

Think of the millions who are public school teachers, local police officers, workers at local charities, members of the military and the National Guard, and so many more.

Think of the folks who work for federal, state, local, Tribal governments, keeping essential services going and responding to natural disasters — all those firefighters and cops.

The program is designed so that if you serve in one of these jobs — and we’ll be able to list those in — you’ll be able to accurately assess whether you do — and make your loan payments for 10 years, even if it’s not consecutive years, your remaining balance will be completely forgiven.

It’s a great idea, but the program is a mess. It’s so inefficient and complicated, too many people just give up."

And we didn't complain either when we bailed out those multi-national financial conglomerates that got busted due to their reckless trading. But I believe the way to fix the student loan problems is not through forgiving the debt. A debt is a debt and should remain there until it's paid off. If you really want to forgive the debt then you should just write it off and erase it completely from the books, not force another group of people who had nothing to do with the debt in the first place to come in and foot the bill and then tout it around as a "debt forgiveness". You didn't forgive the debt; the debt is still there; you just made another group of people pay for it. Regardless whether it's through deficit reduction or through inflation reduction, American taxpayers are paying for it one way or another. Deficit reduction is through raised taxes that the taxpayers have to pay and inflation reduction is through increased mortgage and/or interest payments that taxpayers again are paying out of their pockets. The difference is just in the source of the payment. People are not fooled.

Furthermore, the real solution to this student loan problem is not actually through forgiving the debt. This is just an ad-hoc band-aid cop-out. The real solution is to eliminate these student loans' existence in the first place. WHY do these student loans exist? Many of them existed out of fraudulent institutions that weren't legitimate teaching institutions but existed only to con people out of money and others stemmed from loans that were forced upon students by coercing them to study programs that they didn't need just for them to take on loans. So to tackle the student loan problem is to better regulate and oversee the education industry to get rid of the fake and fraudulent schools that tricked students to take on loans to study programs that do not create any job opportunities or benefit their lives in any way. WHY isn't Biden doing that? Why isn't Biden tackling this problem from the source if he wants to do something useful?? Perhaps it's because of this?

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=F1410

It's gotten the political contribution from the student loan industries so it can't do anything except to make sure they get paid but it is creating a problem for the students who undertook the loans so it's making the whole country pay for it. Yeah that's Biden to you. Never having the competence or the courage to tackle the problem from its roots and deal with it head-on, always come up with a solution that just spreads around the problem and then tout it as the miracle cure.
 
And we didn't complain either when we bailed out those multi-national financial conglomerates that got busted due to their reckless trading. But I believe the way to fix the student loan problems is not through forgiving the debt. A debt is a debt and should remain there until it's paid off. If you really want to forgive the debt then you should just write it off and erase it completely from the books, not force another group of people who had nothing to do with the debt in the first place to come in and foot the bill and then tout it around as a "debt forgiveness". You didn't forgive the debt; the debt is still there; you just made another group of people pay for it. Regardless whether it's through deficit reduction or through inflation reduction, American taxpayers are paying for it one way or another. Deficit reduction is through raised taxes that the taxpayers have to pay and inflation reduction is through increased mortgage and/or interest payments that taxpayers again are paying out of their pockets. The difference is just in the source of the payment. People are not fooled.

Furthermore, the real solution to this student loan problem is not actually through forgiving the debt. This is just an ad-hoc band-aid cop-out. The real solution is to eliminate these student loans' existence in the first place. WHY do these student loans exist? Many of them existed out of fraudulent institutions that weren't legitimate teaching institutions but existed only to con people out of money and others stemmed from loans that were forced upon students by coercing them to study programs that they didn't need just for them to take on loans. So to tackle the student loan problem is to better regulate and oversee the education industry to get rid of the fake and fraudulent schools that tricked students to take on loans to study programs that do not create any job opportunities or benefit their lives in any way. WHY isn't Biden doing that? Why isn't Biden tackling this problem from the source if he wants to do something useful?? Perhaps it's because of this?

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=F1410

It's gotten the political contribution from the student loan industries so it can't do anything except to make sure they get paid but it is creating a problem for the students who undertook the loans so it's making the whole country pay for it. Yeah that's Biden to you. Never having the competence or the courage to tackle the problem from its roots and deal with it head-on, always come up with a solution that just spreads around the problem and then tout it as the miracle cure.

Interesting link, ty.

In regards to it contributing to inflation, some data that suggests otherwise;

https://rooseveltinstitute.org/2022...ent-debt-would-increase-wealth-not-inflation/
 
“Free Thinkers” LMFAO

Anyone who thinks differently from the liberal horde is labeled a racist, sexist, misogynist, or some other horrible label and instantly fired from their career and blackballed from society.

Well that used to be the case with anybody who thinks liberally for the common people, they get instantly fired and ostracized from society. Not agreeing with what some of the extreme-leftists are doing but just saying both sides have been guilty.

Besides, the non-left thinkers the ones so labelled "racist, sexist, misogynist..." are not really blackballed from society. They thrive just as well. Bill Burr, one of my favourite comedians is doing well. Joe Rogan is another. Rush Limbaugh and the entire Fox network, they are all doing fin. We even had one for president, calling the covid the China virus and getting Asian-Americans attacked left and right. Even the KKK and the Neo-Nazis still exist and from this one article that I read, their membership and influence are actually growing. They are just now smarter with what they are preaching. They are not being eradicated; they are still existing.

If you want to talk about somebody getting fired and blackballed because of their ideological beliefs, I can assure you that that has nothing to do with their ideological beliefs, that just has to do with taking advantage of ideological differences and using it to push that person down so to get ahead. And like I said, these kinds of shenanigans happen with both sides. I am sure you are old enough to remember McCarthyism? If not, here is a recap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism.
 
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