The US government told people it would give them a thing, then it said psych! jk lol. OK, this has happened many times, but the one I’m thinking of most recently is student loan forgiveness. This is backsies, and I say, no motherfucking backsies. Now some might say that about us loser ass chumps who didn’t caveat our emptors before agreeing to the loans in the first place, but no, we signed those agreements based on the fabulous careers the education was supposed to provide us. That shit ain’t real, therefore the education was never worth the asking price. It was, as so many things in the United Snakes are, fraud.
So when we were told forgiveness was on the horizon, just do this and that, pay what you can in the meantime, we’ll work this out, and then… hard no. Because fuck us for being poor, that’s why. cool, cool, cool. I’m just gonna be over in the corner sharpening this big piece of metal to hang in that wooden frame over there, hang it on a string. It’s modern art, don’t worry about it. After all, I have a bachelor’s degree in fine art. You told me it was worth a lifetime of debt, so it must be legit.
Supposedly, the type of forgiveness I’m in line for was not one that has been kiboshed. It was part of a court ordered thing, the government telling a slew of sheisty business schools to eat shit. So perhaps it will come to pass. Perhaps not. Perhaps they’ll slap the irons on me when debtor’s prisons return in force.
The way federal employee pensions are calculated includes an average of your highest three years of earnings, and at some point the Big Beautiful Bullshit included a change in that math that would result in federal employees getting less money when they retire. You’re promised one thing, you pay in, you get arbitrarily told psych, jk lol, no. This is backsies.
Poor children dying of easily prevented causes was making states look bad, and they got a lil federal money to reduce the body count thru a program you may have heard of called Medicaid. Thanks says the state, collecting funds to save poor people’s lives. Psych jk lol, no. They can eat shit and die now. Backsies.
Anyway, don’t tell me you’ve got something for me and then take it away. No motherfucking backsies. Thanks.
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Being expected to keep your word is only for ordinary people, unfortunately. The rich and powerful are, oddly, held to lower standards.
real.