Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market
by toomuchtodo on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @01:08PM
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Medicare cuts->Elderly dying off faster->Voter demographic change. Law of unintended consequences? Possibly. I can see the political winds shifting back hard over the next 3 years.
Enough Puerto Ricans might have moved to Florida already to turn the state blue. Won't know until next elections.
Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market
by yardie on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:21PM
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A lot of people Puerto Ricans are moving to traditionally blue Florida locations. SE Florida, Orlando, Tampa are the 3 most populous areas and all are strongly blue. Through gerrymandering they'll continue to get the same representation.
Re:Student Loan Debt Is Now as Big as the U.S. Junk Bond Market
by stevenwoo on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @10:19PM
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If these new residents makes the statewide elections close, things would be improved (because in general in close elections, candidates have to appeal to the tiny amount of voters on the other side that switch parties, so toning down extremism), plus as Puerto Ricans, they had pretty much no say in the federal government versus some say after they moved from the island to the mainland.
They already did. The GOP tax bill specifically targeted our demographic as a way to finance tax cuts for the wealthy and businesses. The GOP doesn't even deny it.
Like it or not, we are the scapegoats for all the problems afflicting the poor. And it's not a stretch to believe the GOP is going to use popular support to extract every dime from us until we are homeless too.