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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, so I survived cancer and I don't see why other people can't do the same.  Why is the government working on curing cancer for these lazy people.

Yes, that is a really dumb argument and...[/quote]

+1 million.  I think people need to look inside themselves and think about why they want people to suffer the same thing they found difficult.[/quote]

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There are two kinds of people: those who think I struggled so you should too, and those who think I don’t want others to struggle like I did.  
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You forgot the third kind: Those who just want free handouts and have others foot the bill.[/quote]

Or the fourth kind: I recognize that some of us are lucky enough not to need loan forgiveness and can pay plenty of taxes, so I don't complain about benefits that help people who are less fortunate than I am.[/quote]

It's not luck, it's making good choices about what to study. We should not subsidize poor life choices - it will lead to even more poor life choices. [/quote]

Do you have some documentation showing that people with debt disproportionately received what you are calling useless degrees?  Because I know plenty of teachers, govt employees, and other gainfully employed people with student debt.  Plenty of people get over their head and take on too much debt relative to their expected salaries, but I’d chalk that up to a lack of financial literacy more than anything else.[/quote]

+1  Or having a bad run due to a once in a century pandemic.   The Government did a much bigger bailout of businesses during the pandemic.  Not sure why people object to helping individuals for the same reason.[/quote]

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