• pdxfed@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    He voted to increase loans and grants that made college ever more expensive for decades, and then in the aughts, sponsored the bill to make student debt non-dischargeable even in bankruptcy, effectively handcuffing generations past and future as well to the truckload of bullshit they are fed to get them into mountains of debt and then ensuring they are forever chained to it. https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/111100/documents/HHRG-116-JU08-20201202-SD007.pdf

    Decades in the US government anyone is going to have lots of awful things they did, and I’m not going to argue it’s his worst but it’s one of the most crippling to anyone trying to better themselves and has destroyed decades of millions of Americans lives.

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      Didn’t he also help sponsor/write the Patriot Act? He literally helped out fascists with that one if so. Hard to keep track/memory of all the corruption over there.

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        Theres also his role with Anita Hill and not believing women, empowering a shithead, and we’ve suffered with that SC justice now for decades.