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Ocasio-Cortez: Biden Loan Plan Gives Beneficiaries ‘Hope’ They Can ‘Travel Abroad’
Breitbart ^ | 04/09/2024 | IAN HANCHETT

Posted on 04/09/2024 6:34:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

On Monday’s broadcast of CBS’s “Late Show,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stated that the student loan plan announced by President Joe Biden earlier in the day is “hope” for those who benefit from the plan to be able to do different things, including traveling abroad.

Ocasio-Cortez said, “Actually, I’m going to be one of the few” that doesn’t get any benefits from the program, “I’m a member of Congress. I’m a little bit outside the threshold and bounds. But, if I wasn’t, just a few years ago, waitress me, five years ago, would have benefited from it. Congresswoman me will not, but that’s okay. I’ll take the knock if it means that people can get relief.”

She continued, “And this is huge, this is — people getting the student loan forgiveness, their student loans canceled, it means that it’s hope to buy a house or have a kid or travel abroad or maybe even go back to school and pursue a career that maybe they otherwise wouldn’t have. One of the reasons that’s not me now is because I didn’t feel like I’d be able to afford medical school. And so, hopefully, someone else who’s at an ISEF competition somewhere will be able to do that because of this.

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Biden buys more votes.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/08/fact-sheet-president-biden-announces-new-plans-that-would-provide-relief-to-borrowers-disproportionately-burdened-by-student-loan-debt/


21 posted on 04/09/2024 7:55:08 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. )
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To: butlerweave

Yah, I can get behind this if a condition of the taxpayer $$ means they lose their US citizenship and must never return. Children, too.

Pariahs. Kind of like what all the SH**hole, loser countries are doing in sending their “refugees” to Mexico.


22 posted on 04/09/2024 7:55:12 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The thought of AOC as a Dr. Brrrrrrr.


23 posted on 04/09/2024 7:55:20 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: ridesthemiles

“ Ocasio-Cortez attended Boston University, where she double-majored in international relations and economics, graduating cum laude. “

Not only a quick google search this is from her official page


24 posted on 04/09/2024 7:56:10 AM PDT by stanne
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So I have pay off these dumba$$es loans so they can travel?
When I’m very frugal and don’t feel I have the money to travel ?

Oh man


25 posted on 04/09/2024 7:57:28 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: ridesthemiles

Aye aye Sir! According to Wikipedia she does. However I have also read its actually a minor, her major being an international studies degree. Either way she probably sat stoned through the lectures and BJ’ed her way through the exams.


26 posted on 04/09/2024 7:58:14 AM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
[means that it’s hope to buy a house or have a kid or travel abroad]

Well, I'd have to have a big forgiven loan to buy a house, have a kid and travel abroad - of course I would need abroad perhaps from abroad. (grin)



OK, ducking and running really, really quickly
27 posted on 04/09/2024 8:00:14 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Occasional Kotex has spoken!!


28 posted on 04/09/2024 8:15:09 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: Reily

“..her major being an international studies degree...”

Any degree with the word “studies” in it is about as worthless/useless as teats on a wild boar.


29 posted on 04/09/2024 8:17:43 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: lgjhn23

These students should repay THEIR loans. Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to do so. AOC is an absolute nitwit.


30 posted on 04/09/2024 8:29:25 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: stanne
That is an embellishment.
BU has stated that AOC’s degree is in INTERNATIONAL STUDIES.
Yes, she did take some economics courses(so did almost everyone).
She does not have a major or minor from BU in Economics.

This fib is also perpetuated on sites like Snopes. It is done purposely to make AOC appear to be smarter than she actually is.

FYI, International Studies is a BA degree given to students that really could not decide on a major. They could not handle advanced math or sciences. Plus, they were not all the great at English or other languages.

Keep in mind that there are a lot of parents that send their daughter to private schools like BU to hopefully find a HUSBAND. I saw it all the time when I was at Syracuse U. Lots of rich dumb girls from Longg Giiland. Most were of the kosher persuasion. Known as JAPs(Jewish American Princesses)

31 posted on 04/09/2024 9:15:15 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

That’s a lot of words

She did enough economics study at BU to embellish that resume.

She knows as much economics as a sophomore in HS more interested in getting a junior to take her to the prom than anything like schoolwork.

And that is outrageous


32 posted on 04/09/2024 9:22:50 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

I have a BS degree in Wood Products Engineering (Magana Cum Laude) with a Minor in Marketing. I was taking the same upper level courses that SU Marketing Majors did.

You have to take a certain amount of credits/courses to actually have a Minor in something else. AOC did NOT take or pass enough Economics Courses to have a Minor.


33 posted on 04/09/2024 9:31:27 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: butlerweave

...but only if they can score travel loans, never to be repaid.


34 posted on 04/09/2024 9:56:03 AM PDT by DPMD (ua)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’ll be able to go on vacation instead of paying back the loans

Libtardism


35 posted on 04/09/2024 10:08:49 AM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe one of the most absurd statements ever made by a politician.


36 posted on 04/09/2024 10:17:47 AM PDT by RobertoinAL
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To: woodbutcher1963

“ You have to take a certain amount of credits/courses to actually have a Minor in something else. AOC did NOT take or pass enough Economics Courses to have a Minor.”
I think you’re missing my point

AOC doesn’t have the knowledge of economics of a 10th grader with a drug problem to be calling herself a congresswoman or a college grad, both of which she is and both of which she is under qualified

Much less to be stating any opinions of economic policy. She is not educated in economics at a high school dropout level


37 posted on 04/09/2024 10:43:31 AM PDT by stanne
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What about the rest of us who would just like to travel to a different state?


38 posted on 04/09/2024 11:17:47 AM PDT by yawningotter
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wait: Why would anyone want to go anywhere else in the world when the world spends all those resources to come here? 🙄


39 posted on 04/09/2024 11:36:53 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: hal ogen

“..AOC is an absolute nitwit...’

Well, I was thinking more on the lines of an “occasional used Kotex”.
But hey, I’ll certainly settle for “absolute nitwit”....works for me!!!


40 posted on 04/09/2024 12:27:53 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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