How would you react if the government announced tomorrow that they were going to pay all expenses in perpetuity for a selection of people, ~40% of the population forever. Would you still argue that the people complaining and who have to work for to support the governments handouts are self centered if you had to continue working. Or would you think that something was not right.

'It's not a reward, it's a relief for predatory student loans applied to people at a time where society yelled "get a college degree or you'll never get a good job" into their ears day after day.'

I got the same loans but get no relief. I am not mad at the people getting the relief, I am angry at the government for choosing favorites from people that all suffered in the same way and making me and others pay for it; In what is clearly a political stunt. I say this as one that votes democrat.

While i am for government services that help the poorest among us; especially kids, People pulling themselves up by their bootstraps is what makes a capitalist society work. It's what has lifted more people out of poverty than any economic system in the history of the world.