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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like I get soured by the anticapitalist tone among some of the democrats.  I am all for social programs and that includes universal health care.  But there are a lot of programs pushed by the Democrats that I think are just redistribution of wealth and I am not for that.  [/quote]
There is a small, very vocal, very left group saying this. Not even Elizabeth Warren is anti-capitalist. Please don’t think activists represent the Democratic Party. The rightwing and mainstream (cable news) media LOVE to focus on the “radical” portion of the left while ignoring the very real radical takeover of the GOP by an anti-democracy faction.

The truth is, our country lags in so many programs that make a healthy up society. Paid time off, affordable healthcare, lower prescription drugs, affordable college…

Yes, there will always be scammers. I consider the biggest scammers to be the billionaires & wealthy corporations who have convinced the American public that they should be allowed to skip paying what they owe in taxes because they are 
1. job makers
2. have “pulled bootstraps/ worked hard for their money, while ignoring that much of their wealth was built from the public good i.e. they and or their workers were educated in schools, their goods travel on public roads & purchased over publicly seed funded Internet…

They are laughing all the way to the bank, or in some cases to outerspace.[/quote]

I thought that too.  I feel like Biden is drawn to that group more than I expected and it lends a lot of legitimacy to their goals.  Which makes me wonder if more democrats today are for that type of stuff.  A lot of young people really want free college or tuition forgiveness.  I hear some sad stories of people who got scammed by banks but for many I hear about massive tuition to earn a Low earning degree.  That is a choice, not a tragedy.  I know young people at my work who have massive debt but at least some of it was accumulated doing mostly frivolous semesters or summers abroad.  I took loans and worked every summer and during the school year and NEVER got to do that because I couldn’t afford it.   Or should I say, I wasn’t willing to take out loans to do it.  I should not now be asked to pay for Larlas summer in Spain.  Nope.  But those same colleagues all talked about loan forgiveness.  It made me so mad. [/quote]

I worked through college and grad/law school.  I borrowed over $100,000 in loans.  I didn’t go abroad either and I still support bringing some loan forgiveness and sanity to the issue of funding college.  All of that debt made it really hard for me to start out.  I was living in group houses in my early 30’s to save money.  After I got married and we bought a house, we really benefitted from the fact that my husband had no school debt.  His parents were able to pay for his schooling.  We had more for a down payment because he didn’t have a student loan payment.  My friends who are realtors have commented on how many of their younger home buyers have family money and no other debt so they can purchase fairly expensive homes because they have a big downpayment.  They didn’t earn family wealth, someone else did and they simply won the family lottery.  A lottery I might add that our tax system not only encourages but makes the rest of us pay for (the tax system favors people who have investment income versus wage income).  I don’t support wiping away all college debt and I don’t think we should pay for everyone to go to whatever school they want.  I do believe that we need to make higher ed more accessible because right now it is skewed to helping those born to affluence maintain their affluence rather than provide opportunities to less affluent, working class, or low income students.  I am acutely aware that while I have done really well so many of my family and friends from childhood who worked as hard or harder than me haven’t.  Making education truly more affordable and accessible is something that needs to be done and that will benefit society as a whole.[/quote]

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