I have a staunchly Republican friend with a crap load of student debt

[Pobeka]

30. You are misreading my point

There are also people who chose to spend their money on expensive cars, expensive houses, expensive toys, or flat out chose to not pay for their childrens' college and thus the children took out loans. We could've done that too, but didn't. We lived well below our means, got year old videos from the libary instead of paying for new releases at blockbuster, drove old cars, lived in the low budget house, etc, etc, etc. And now, to forgive those loans for those folks whoe did not make sacrifices (and could have) is a big "screw you" to those of us who did in fact make financial sacrifices back then.

I totally support forgiveness of debt caused by obscenely high interest rates and fees.