on The Hill's Rising he talked about how "the left" had "shamed Biden" to do the student debt forgiveness. I was reminded of "Hillarycare" which eventually became Obamacare. Another of my weird connections? Not so weird.

In the early 1990s people were just starting to realize how bad our health system was. Costs were being seen as "out of control." (though they look almost charity level good today) Medical decisions were just being exposed for being made for the sake of profit rather than for effectiveness. People were getting mad; just a few, but it would grow, that's for sure. How to stop it?

Cue Hillary. There was an answer, one that had worked worldwide for decades, which had controlled costs and guaranteed higher levels of care everywhere it had been tried. It was called single payer and it had to be stopped. So Hillary pasted together a ridiculous frankenstein of worthless capitalist lies and pretended to threaten to impose it on us. It was a campaign designed to fail, to create a backlash, to obscure and demonize single payer and protect the parasites sucking billions of dollars out of the public, and it worked for almost two decades. The parasites looked at the victory of the Hillarycare fraud and went on a corruption festival.

Two decades of 14% inflation and there were people reaching for their pitchforks. Again something had to be done or surely this time we would demand single payer and the age of the parasites would be over. "Activate Obama!" the parasites demanded in desperation, and the lightning rod was raised into the storm. But this time a repeat of the Hillarycare backlash would not be enough. This time the price gouging had to be hidden - it must be replaced by government subsidies! (Reagan had done a similar magic spell with oil company price gouging in the 80s replacing inflation with tax cuts) This time it didn't work, but there were enough gullible people and those who saw it for what it was were marginalized and ignored. Single payer has been defeated for how long this time? A decade? Two?

Now student debt. How many billions will be spent to "forgive" how many? A drop in an ocean compared to funding free higher education. Besides, they'll just make up the forgiven $10k with the next round of tuition hikes. Worth every penny to save the college parasites, and that's even if Biden can't come up with some way to renege on his promise again and blame Manchin or the parliamentarian or the Supreme Court.