The Patriot Post® · Thursday Short Cuts

For the record

“When our divisions become so deep that civil discourse can no longer mend what has unraveled, we need to tread carefully. … How can a nation remain intact when large parts of the population have absolutely nothing in common with each other regarding how they see the world? Limited government and individual freedom are the classic American answers. Unfortunately, we seem to be going in the opposite direction.” —Star Parker

Biden’s student loan heist

“Today is a day of joy and relief. President Biden is cancelling up to $20,000 of federal student debt for as many as 43 million Americans — a powerful step to help rebuild the middle class. This will be transformative for the lives of working people all across this country.” —Elizabeth Warren, who advocated $50,000 in “relief”

“The average amount of debt forgiveness to businesses receiving PPP loans: $95,700. If we could afford to cancel hundreds of billions in PPP loans to business owners in their time of need, please do not tell me we can’t afford to cancel all student debt for 45 million Americans.” —Bernie Sanders

“Democrats’ student loan socialism is a slap in the face to working Americans who sacrificed to pay their debt or made different career choices to avoid debt. A wildly unfair redistribution of wealth toward higher-earning people.” —Mitch McConnell

“Instead of demanding accountability from an underperforming higher education sector that pushes so many young Americans into massive debt, the Administration’s unilateral plan baptizes a broken system.” —Ben Sasse

“Pay your own damn loans. Ex-college students aren’t the only people with debt. And why should blue collar workers subsidize college graduates. And where’s Biden’s constitutional authority to forgive loans?” —Mark Levin

“The people with the lowest unemployment rate in the country took out the loans, spent them, and received a product for the money. Joe Biden intends to violate his oath of office to transfer the liability for repayment to the people who didn’t do any of that.” —Charles C.W. Cooke

“There is no such thing as student loan forgiveness. There is only student loan transferral, where the debt is transferred from the person who took out the loan to someone else who did not take out the loan.” —Matt Walsh

The BIG Lie

“The Inflation Reduction Act will lower costs for American families, create jobs, and make our tax code fairer. And every single Republican in Congress voted against it.” —Joe Biden (Republicans voted against it because nothing else Biden said is true.)

Expertise about experts

“A genuinely republican society is one in which informed, independent citizens have a duty to do their own learning and inform themselves from the best experts and the best minds in society. But populist rage at experts who misuse their position and authority can easily break loose from its moorings.” —Dan McLaughlin

“True science — using the scientific method — is important. But that’s not what much of ‘science’ is these days. Instead, today government science is misused by progressive politicians. … I’m angry that my tax dollars go to support leftist nonsense. Unfortunately, most Americans don’t care. That’s probably because they don’t know that government throws so much money at ridiculous progressive advocacy.” —John Stossel

Food for thought

“Every piece I read about ‘banned books’ always ends up being a story about how progressives believe they’re the only ones who should be allowed to decide what is read in schools/libraries.” —David Harsanyi

And Last…

“If you can cancel debt with no costs or repercussions, then let’s just cancel the national debt.” —Carol Roth