Ever since Joe Biden announced a (modest) amount of student loan forgiveness, Republicans have been up in arms. How dare President Joe Biden help alleviate the out-of-control debt that is crippling just one generation, say both Lauren Boebert and Ted Cruz. The problem is that every time they open their mouths on the subject, they only show how insensitive they are. Perhaps no one’s advice to debt-ridden graduates was more out of touch with reality than Marco Rubio’s.
The Florida senator, taking a break from pearling for the FBI’s legitimate search for Mar-a-Lago, took to Fox News to attack “freeloaders” who have had to deal with astronomically high tuition and the avalanche after the avalanche of rising interest. the rates. Unlike the others in his party, he tried to be helpful… sort of… not really.
“I owe over a hundred thousand dollars in student loans. The day I was elected to the Senate, I still had over $100,000 in student loans that I could pay off because I wrote a book and with that money, I was able to pay them off. If not, I would never have paid it, I would still pay it okay?” Rubio said. “So it doesn’t matter, I think the student loan issue in America is a big problem and it’s broken and it needs to be fixed and it needs to be reformed and I have bipartisan ideas.”
It’s great that Rubio wants to reach across the aisle to fix the “student loan issue.” But the first part of his answer? Less. His advice – just write a book, dummy! – wasn’t exactly the wise sharing of wisdom he probably thought it was. Of course, people on social media were quick to call out his bad advice.
“It’s stupid to tell working class people that the answer to the problem of climate change is to get a $65,000 electric car!”
—Marco Rubio, July 27, 2022
“The answer to the student debt problem is to get a huge book deal because you’re famous!”
—Marco Rubio, August 27, 2022 https://t.co/RqYLGruV8n
– Miss Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) August 28, 2022
Marco Rubio’s solution to student debt is simple, practical, and everyone should follow it.
Request a $100K book advance from your publisher, just call your agent. https://t.co/R0ag3hRt6Z
– Grant Stern has grown up! (@grantstern) August 28, 2022
Why haven’t more lazy good-for-nothings thought of this? Pay off those student loans by getting elected to the Senate, getting an $800,000 advance on the book, and then just pay someone else to write the book like Rubio did?! Children today are very lazy. https://t.co/Vc2KQrmEh1
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) August 28, 2022
Marco Rubio’s advice to Floridians struggling with student debt: Become a career politician and take advantage of your position
I have a better idea, let’s elect someone who will show up and fight for Floridians. pic.twitter.com/W2hYZVIDmz
— Val Demings (@valdemings) August 28, 2022
That’s why I laugh at the idea that the student loan issue will hurt the Democrats.
Republicans can’t even open their mouths on this issue without saying something stunningly out of touch and detached from how basically any normal person lives their lives. https://t.co/8ZmrKs1PyN
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 28, 2022
Others pointed out that he has some questionable ways of making money, such as donations from the NRA.
“And I only got $90,000 that year from the NRA. But since then they have given me $3,000,000! That’s what I call schooling.”
– Marco Rubio https://t.co/4VQUNExE5L— Ken Olin (@kenolin1) August 28, 2022
Others dug into his murky financial past.
Rubio hasn’t had a real job since he babysat at his brother-in-law’s cocaine house in 1985. His sugar daddy, Miami car oligarch and former Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman financed his entire life his political and even bought him a job as a teacher. in FIU. #BecauseMiami https://t.co/irVbJXLjlM
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) August 28, 2022
When Marco Rubio scolds you for paying off your student loans with good, honest work, remind Marco Rubio that his parents lived in a house paid for with cash their son-in-law made from dealing cocaine.
– Miss Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) August 28, 2022
It’s important to remember that not only did Rubes pay off his college debt with a “book” that donors used to inundate him with free money, but when he was in the state legislature he was caught using his card of the state credit to cover his personal. expenses. https://t.co/Ik1GEbO4Sc
– Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) August 28, 2022
And some pointed out that he didn’t even write that book — and that the ghostwriter may have been paid illegally.
Marco Rubio says he paid off 100k student loans by writing a book after he was elected🙄 that book is currently available for $1.45
He was under investigation for his second book A Memoir for paying 20k to a ghost writer by PAC💰
This is exactly how GQP Swamp works. pic.twitter.com/uaq4TIVOjt
— Papi B Dubs, (music/events) (@Papi_B_Dubs) August 28, 2022
I just remembered @MarkSalter55ghost wrote @marcorubiothe book of Mark Salter was McCain’s longtime staffer, friend and ghostwriter, except McCain gave him full credit as co-author AND donated millions in book proceeds to charity.
Of course, Marco is no John McCain. https://t.co/uyHOfGReXx
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) August 28, 2022
If you’re one of the millions who will still have a lot of student debt even after Biden’s modest proposal, at least you can always pay it off by writing a book — or paying someone else to do it for you.
(Via Raw history)
