Photo Credit — manhhai / Flickr / Saigon, February 9, 1965

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,”