Relevant snippet:
> Her green manufacturing plan would invest $2 trillion over the next ten years in green research, manufacturing, and exporting
It then breaks that down with slightly more detail ($400 billion for clean energy research, $1.5 trillion to "purchase American-made clean, renewable, and emission-free energy products", $100 billion to increase clear energy tech exports.)
It also links to https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/green-manufacturing for (a little) more details on that section.
She's not necessarily my first choice, but the claim that she's not talking about "paying a similar sum to fix climate change" is wrong.
>student loans taken out by bright college students who surely knew what a loan is
That's not quite fair. First, universities are free in modern, first-world industrialized nations. Second, the university fees are so prohibitively expensive that a loan is necessary for anyone bright but not born wealthy. In other words, it's a predatory mechanism geared to any bright student who wants to get an education to have a better life. It needs to go.
You might want to read this:
There is one crux where forgiveness makes sense. You cant pay back a loan with a job you cant get because the school was sued into oblivion for fraud.
> bright college students
College for all ensures that the majority of students trying to pay for college are below average, while graduates may align more with your assessment. Im not sure how you can characterize a bright student as someone who took out loans in lieu of scholarships.
I think many more people would be amenable to addressing the problem if it can be demonstrated that it could be solved for a fixed, one-time cost.