Forget that….
He’s been of this view from the jump….
He’s asking that Congress take the l3ead on this and TRHAT isn’t gonna happen…
He won’t do this by executive action…
He could do $10,000 on his own though…
President Joe Biden made it clear during Tuesday night’s CNN town hall that he disagrees with other members of his party who want to cancel $50,000 of student debt per borrower.
“I will not make that happen,” Biden said after a member of the audience said his proposal to cancel $10,000 per borrower doesn’t go far enough.
But top Democratic congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, are calling on Biden to cancel $50,000 per borrower. Dozens of Democrats reintroduced a bicameral resolution earlier this month urging Biden to take action, arguing that he has the executive power to do so.
Biden argues that the government shouldn’t forgive debt for people who went to “Harvard and Yale and Penn” — and he’s also indicated that he believes Congress should make changes through legislation, which would make them harder to undo.
President Joe Biden made it clear during Tuesday night’s CNN town hall that he disagrees with other members of his party who want to cancel $50,000 of student debt per borrower.
“I will not make that happen,” Biden said after a member of the audience said his proposal to cancel $10,000 per borrower doesn’t go far enough.
But top Democratic congressional leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, are calling on Biden to cancel $50,000 per borrower. Dozens of Democrats reintroduced a bicameral resolution earlier this month urging Biden to take action, arguing that he has the executive power to do so.
Biden argues that the government shouldn’t forgive debt for people who went to “Harvard and Yale and Penn” — and he’s also indicated that he believes Congress should make changes through legislation, which would make them harder to undo…..
Joe Biden today became the first ever President to partake in Ash Wednesday services and appeared and spoke in public with ashes on his forehead.
Good for him.
Those on the left fringes who have made it a practice to make fun of or demean prominent Catholics for this in recent years are likely holding back the religious ridicule on that.
Well, he may not have spoke in public today (but did so on Ash Wednesday as Viec President) but he is the first President to take part.
Yeah and one of the tenets of Q-Anon, which is believed by Republican members of Congress–is that the Pope is part of a Satanic pedophile ring.
“Rum, Romanism and Rebellion!” — the slogan that lost the Republicans their first presidential election (1884) since 1856.
On the other hand, anti-Popery and anti-Catholicism of the most appalling kind elected Herbert Hoover over the first Roman Catholic Democratic presidential candidate, Gov. Al Smith. (Remember this was not so long after the Ku Klux Klan’s postwar rise.)
Jack and Jackie Kennedy observed three Ash Wednesdays while he was President; were none of those public?
They said JFK never took part.
Ash Wednesday is not considered by Catholics to be a Holy day of obligation. Attendance at the mass is not required – unlike every Sunday.
I don’t ever recall any person on the left mocking Catholics for partaking in Ash Wednesday mass. It has been my experience that the greatest hostility to Catholics came from fundamentalist Protestants or various right wing hate groups. I say this as a former Catholic.
I’m sure you could Google it.
One famous example is Ted Turner, the owner of CNN saying to staffers who had ashes on their foreheads that they were “Jesus freaks who should go work for Fox.”
It was caught on video and he apologized.
I’m sure there are people on the left that have said that, I just never heard it. You can find evidence of almost anything if you google it.
Ignoring the occasional jokes, the only time I personally experienced severe anti-Catholicism was when I lived in NC – and it wasn’t from Democrats.
Well, the only times I have personally experienced severe anti-Semitism- it wasn’t from Republicans.
So, we can both relate I am sure.
The Slogan “Jews will not replace us” was from closet Democrats? I think you often have selective memory.
I personally have heard anti-Semitism from both the right and the left.
We were talking about personal experience, were we not?
I was not in Charlottesville. I am speaking of things I have experienced personally.
In regards to Ash Wednesday, I do not think there are a lot of religious Protestants who have gone out of their way to mock or demean observant Catholics. Observant Protestants and observant Catholics are typically aligned politically.
I don’t recall any jokes about Ash Wednesday from either Democrats or Republicans. I didn’t say otherwise. I only said that the strongest anti-Catholic experiences I experienced were from fundamentalist Protestants in NC.
“observant Catholics” are far more likely to be Democrats than “observant Protestants”. The Catholic Church is the dominant religion in the heavily-Democratic northeast. The Catholic Church has always (at last during my lifetime) been an advocate of fair government policies for the poor and for immigrants.
Truthfully, I experienced far more hatred as a Unitarian than as a Catholic.
Weekend Update on SNL made a joke about Ash Wednesday was “freak out your cow Wednesday was “freak out your coworkers day. That’s all I can recall. Not exactly a left or right thing there
“Observant” anything are more likely to be voting Republican these days.
Including Observant Jews, Unitarians, Quakers?
Observant Jews have always been the most conservative among Jews and many seemed to have a special affinity (unfortunately in my mind) towards Trump. He likely did far better than any Republican ever had in some specific Orthodox enclaves.
If Quakers vote in heavy numbers, I think it is probably in favor or Republicans.
From what I understand about Unitarians (largely from you), I do not consider them a “religion” but a collection of people with similar views. Nothing wrong with that in theory.
There are definitely a lot of aspects of liberal politics in established religion, and Reform Judaism is certainly a part of that, but those groups tend to not be as big of a number as compared to Evangelicalism or observant Catholics.
Joe Biden is in for some rough sailing on student debt….
From the ‘Left’….
“An ocean of student loan debt is holding back 43 million borrowers and disproportionately weighing down Black and Brown Americans,” said Schumer and Warren in a joint statement Wednesday. The two reintroduced a resolution earlier this month calling on Biden to cancel up to $50,000 per borrower, a bill they first introduced in September.
“It’s time to act. We will keep fighting,” they said.
There are about 43 million Americans who owe a total of $1.6 trillion in student loans to the federal government. While progressives have argued for years that student debt forgiveness is essential to reducing inequality and bridging the racial wealth gap, moderates like Biden have come around to it as a way to blunt the damage of the coronavirus recession.
The battle over how far to go on student debt forgiveness has been simmering since Biden’s election in November and ramped up when Democrats took control of the Senate in January….
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