Hey there! Tool here, — just your average run of the mill goth, socialist, millennial, mixed race PR dude checking in from AOC’s district — the fighting 14th — with my opinion on Senator Warren!
This past week Senator Warren hosted a town hall meeting where she talked about her student or educational debt relief plan.
This plan goes further than either Bernie’s tuition-free college or Warren’s own previous debt-relief plan, while incorporating the best of both previous policies.
The new Warren Plan includes:
www.dailykos.com/… (a write up here)
- Cancels most existing student debt:
All students and families making $100 thousand or less per year would be eligible to cancel up to $50,000.
Students and families making between $100 thousand and $250 thousand per year would be able to cancel $1 for every $3 spent on a sliding scale of income, e.g., those making $130 thousnd could cancel $40,000 in student debt.
All told this would cancel up to 95% of all student loan debt and would cost the federal government about $640 billion, but would help up to 45 million people currently burdened by student debt.
With the introduction of this plan Warren will strike a major blow to the debt industries. The money that debtors will not be spending on paying back loans can be spent on things like food, their children, or going to the movies. In other words getting rid of this debt will allow people to spend money (creating economic stimulus) on goods & services rather than servicing debt to institutions that turn around and lend that money back to debtors at higher rates. Our problem has not been on the supply or production side — but on the consumer side where people can’t buy things the economy is producing.
With a broad sweep of a pen Warren is seeking to undo much of what Joe Biden caused with the Bankruptcy act of 2006. This effectively nullifies Biden’s chances beyond name recognition and immediately creates a contrast between Warren, and the rest of the declared (and undeclared) candidates.
Keep in mind that we are talking about 1.5 trillion dollars in debt here. Something Gen X, Z, and Millennial’s have contended with since discharging educational debt through bankruptcy stopped being a thing cause of Reagan. The outcomes of not being able to discharge the debt drag on our economy in the form of:
1. delay leaving home.
2. moving back home.
3. delay getting married.
4. delay having children
5. delay seeking healthcare
This list is not exhaustive and these are some of the outcomes of when people carry a lot of debt beyond going grey early!
Now why do I say that Senator Warren is the only serious candidate in the race?
She is the only candidate so far that has called for the elimination of the filibuster.
What? Woah, change of gears there Tool. Why are you switching topics — mid diary like that?
When ( notice — assumptive language ) we (democrats) begin impeachment hearings in the House they should continue those hearings very publicly, showing all the evidence that Mueller gathered over his two year investigation already. Those hearings should go on for about 14 months while democrats fight like hell to stop the cages and horrors of Trump’s worst abuses. The pressure might be to much for Trump and he could resign.
Once those hearings go on for a year or so — they get bumped up to the Senate where of course all the republicans will vote with Trump with Mcturtle meowling “NoOOoOo”. At that point though — we have the election — democrats running on bold progressive policies and Warren (or Sanders) leading a movement of progressives and we win a majority.
Then what happens?
We run into the filibuster.
It works as Capital (or business, or special interest) — primary control over the economic outcomes of the 99%. I don’t have to go into the nutters of the healthcare debate and how it was impossible for M4A to be considered when democrats controlled the House, the Senate, and the executive office for 2 years — with McTurle obstructing and very clearly planning on doing the exact same behavior this time around.
We don’t get debt forgiveness without getting rid of the filibuster.
We don’t get M4A without getting rid of the filibuster.
We don’t get to expand the Supreme Court from 9 seats to 11 without getting rid of the filibuster.
We don’t get a Green New Deal without getting rid of the filibuster.
We don’t get anything that the 99% need without getting rid of the filibuster.
That’s why Warren is the only serious candidate in this race. If we want to be able to combat big business interests - then we have to nullify one of their favorite tools.
I hope others will adopt her stances since nothing they want to accomplish will happen if they don’t understand step 1.
In 2015, Republicans took control of the Senate and kept the 2013 rules in place.[53] On April 6, 2017, Senate Republicans eliminated the sole remaining exception to the 2013 change by invoking the "nuclear option" for Supreme Court nominees. This was done in order to allow a simple majority to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. The vote to change the rules was 52 to 48 along party lines.[54]
The filibuster is not some sacred holy instrument that must be respected at all costs. It has been voted on, changed, manipulated (for both good and bad outcomes), and is a rule that exists solely in the senate rules. There is nothing in the constitution that says we need this for the good of the republic. If you think that respecting senate tradition is more important than accomplishing real change for the 99% - then please rethink your position on that - as the republicans have shown they will always change the rules in their favor when it is politically convenient.
Warren continues to lead: elizabethwarren.com/...
Wednesday, Apr 24, 2019 · 6:22:55 PM +00:00 · Tool
Also Inslee and Buttigieg shares Senator Warren’s view!
Governors and mayors in the race, such as Jay Inslee of Washington and Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, have no doubt that the filibuster is, as Inslee put it, “an artifact of a bygone era that is not in the U.S. Constitution and somehow it got grafted on in this culture of the Senate.”