Uncle Sam Wants You Poor
But he’ll settle for dead
Allow me to lift your rock for a quick moment if you hadn’t yet heard this gem from our — ahem — representatives in Washington, D.C.:
“By forgiving such a wide swath of loans for borrowers, you are removing any leverage the Department of Defense maintained as one of the fastest and easiest ways to pay for higher education,”
That’s right, Patriots, unless the military can keep the young people poor and desperate, they’re going to have a much tougher time convincing them that killing people in other countries is a valid career path. In fact, what is keeping this country — and much of the world — lurching forward? The efforts of desperate people to simply feed their kids and sleep indoors every night.
I guess there just aren’t enough bloodthirsty, ‘roid-raging young men eager to get over there and kill, kill, KILL without the bribe of a college education. Who knew?
So, if Joe keeps his nerve and doesn’t shut down the (massively downscaled) student loan forgiveness program, does that mean the United…
