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I've been gone for a couple of weeks but I take a couple weeks
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you do. I'm glad for the summer and I
know this has been a rough summer.
Our weather wise, nothing new in August, I Love August to I love
it. Does feel kind of like a month
where you can just maybe take a couple weeks off from doing the
podcast or sit outside. Go for a walk.
Look up some old friends. You haven't spoken to in a
while. Here's what August though, is
not for. School.
Now I'm obviously, I love school.
I loved it. When I was in school.
I'm a big believer in school, education, etc, etc.
But why do we send kids back to school?
Now in August, I mean, this has been going on for a number of
years. It started with just a little
slow creeped. Remember when you know member
there's no school until after Labor Day.
First time you were in school, is maybe the day after Labor Day
or the week after Labor Day. Part of it was, I'm guessing it
back in the day there, certainly wasn't the air conditioning or
whatever and then if you live in certain climates, it's pretty
hot in a classroom in the summer.
And so you went to school in the fall.
I'm sure it had there's other reasons too, they needed the
child labor to harvest the crops or whatever be back in the day.
But now now school is starting the first or second week of
August. By the third week, it seems like
most people. I know that have kids in school
kids are in school. I'm thinking it's the summer,
what happened to the summer being for the kids, having the
whole summer off. Why are they in school?
How are they able to learn in the in when it's August outside?
They look how they got windows in schools.
You know the kids can see that this is like maybe the nicest
month of the year. What am I doing?
Sitting in a desk? Now I know look, we've been
going through this pandemic here and kids kids have not had it.
I've had it rough for frankly, I feel bad for kids who've had two
or three years of their education disrupted, I feel bad
for the teachers who have tried to do the virtual teaching from
their own kitchen table. None of this has been good.
It's on a number of levels, not good for learning, not good for
kids, growing up learning to socialize.
Work and play well with others, all that stuff.
So now we're trying to get everybody back to school and the
schools are all open, but why are they open in August?
I don't understand. Am I the only one that feels I9?
It can't be the only. First of all, if you're a kid
and you're listening to this, I know you're with me on this,
right? You do did not want to go back
to school on August 15th right now and I'm sure a lot of you
most of you hopefully love school.
You like learning you like reading new books and learning
to do new things, and It's just, it's just not right?
It's just not right. You ever, I I've talked about
this before, I keep this little list like if I Amber M president
of the United States and and honestly, I don't know how that
would happen. Because first of all, I'd have
to run and I'm not not prone to do that.
And then people have to vote for me and God knows what that would
look like. But one of the things that my
list is that that there's no school before Labor Day.
That just that should just be a law or a presidential order or
something. Speaking of presidential orders
and school, though, I'm recording this right now, just a
few hours after President Biden. Got out his a presidential pain
and signed an order saying that, if you've got student loan debt,
if you got it from a Pell Grant, he just wiped away.
Twenty thousand dollars of your debt, just like that.
You don't have to pay it. And if you just kind of regular
loan, Ten thousand dollars got wiped away today.
Now I know a lot of you oh 30 40 70 hundred thousand dollars in
student loans. I'll talk about that in a second
but the way this works according to his order today is that, if,
if you earn less than 125,000, I'm sure that's most people ten
thousand dollars of your student debt was just eliminated today.
And if and if again, if the debt was from a Pell Grant, 20
thousand dollars is gone. And I just saw the statistics.
That means, first of all, there's 45 million, minimum of
45 million Americans carrying the student debt. that's a lot
of people and so on that 45 million, 20 million of them
today by the stroke of Biden's pen had their entire college
debt. Wiped away no longer owe it,
boom gone. Just like that, 20 million
people who at the beginning of this day.
Were you know up to say twenty thousand dollars in debt with
student loans with these Pell Grants gone no longer in debt
going to bed tonight, debt-free when it comes to the student
loans. I mean.
That's amazing. Now I am going to share my
criticisms about this but they're not criticisms.
Well the fact of that, the president just cleared away, the
debt of 20 million people mostly people who are poor the Working
Poor. The working class are no longer
settled with this debt and the others, those who make up to 125
Grand a year. Got 10,000 removed.
I mean I know you're saying to yourself.
Hey I still got another 50 Grand.
I got to pee but man, 10,000 10,000, right?
I mean look. As you know, I was campaigning
out there with Bernie a couple of years ago.
At this time and Bernie. And I, and all my friends, we
are in favor of you going to college for free.
You should not. They should not be paying for
this back when we were your age. If you're a college student in
many states, most States College was either free or nearly free,
And you weren't supposed to be in debt for the next, 20 years
of your life, if you lived in California.
You could go to any, you see school Berkeley Santa Barbara,
San Diego. Davis, any of the UC schools.
Free free tuition free. Berkeley free.
I think the same thing is true of the New York schools, the
SUNY schools, State University of New York, all of the schools
from near and around New York, City up to Buffalo free and in
places like Michigan. You know, if you went to Central
Michigan University of Michigan State University cheese, I don't
think it was maybe a grand a year.
Maybe if that right somebody, somebody will write me and say,
no, I went to Ann Arbor. For 750 dollars a year.
Now I'm laughing. It's not funny because you're,
if you're a college student right now listening to this,
you're thinking what the hell? Why do we as parents parents?
And grandparents now allow a system to take place to where
you have to be in hock, here for a decade or two or three.
Why did we let this happen to our young, our own young people?
And then you got to get out of college right away, get a job,
any job sometimes maybe a job you don't want you don't like
but you got to, you got to start paying back those loans.
What's that supposed to be the for your first lesson as an
adult that you're going to be in debt kid?
Your whole life? In fact, you never going to own
your home going to be in debt to buy that car.
I going to do this that whatever, what's the point of?
If we are the richest country on Earth and if we are able to To
do at least a few good things for our fellow citizens.
How about being able to go to college?
Be one of those things. And Biden sort of believes that
too, but but of course, he's not burning and he's not a
progressive in that sense. But but he took a step today
that the old Biden wouldn't when he was the young Biden.
I mean, he wouldn't, he wouldn't have supported this sort of
thing, but he has come a long in his years and he knows he's, you
know, I mean he's in the final quarter of his life.
I think that he cares about how he's remembered and I think he's
been doing some things that at least appear to be a good thing.
This is more than appearance, this 20 million, I'll say it
again. 20 million people especially low-income people who
were in serious debt up to twenty thousand dollars of
college debt. Go to bed tonight.
Debt free from their college loans.
Wow. And then another 27 million I
think, get at least the ten thousand dollars wiped away. so
I you know, I want to I just want to say thanks and say to
the president how much I appreciate this and, and
encourage people to remind people that this is what happens
when you if you got not Trump in office not Bush, not you know,
people who are there at the best and only the best of our major
corporations and Wall Street and what Ever.
Some good things can happen. It doesn't mean the Democrats
are there. Also there at the best of he's
corporations, and Wall Street, and their big donors, who are
oftentimes the same donors, who are giving to the Republicans.
I'm not telling you anything, you don't already know.
But I just wanted to just start with the positive thing.
I wanted to say about what Biden did today for a lot of people in
this country and of course, the Republicans are screaming, blow
job, Mitch McConnell, this afternoon, he called it.
He called The Debt Relief a slap in the face.
To who, or or whom I know I should have.
I should have finished College. I'd know if it was horrible.
But but what's the slap in the face slap in the face?
That, I mean, the banks are going to get their money.
Paid back by the United States government.
The schools aren't required to lower their tuition rates.
Would, you know, so who's the, who really is the slapping?
What a stupid thing to say? You know, less than 80 days away
from the election, the midterm election.
And here tens of millions of Americans got huge relief today.
Got it made it better for the oh no, it's going to inflation's.
Going to go up now you just pour gasoline on the fire.
What do you? What do you mean?
Wait a minute. So you're telling me.
So if somebody knocked on my door and said that suddenly I
don't owe whoever ten thousand dollars that I Keep the money.
What do you think? People are going to do when the
debt is wiped clean? And they haven't been able to do
things that maybe it'll Ford things because they're carrying
all this debt, then the debts gone.
What do you think they're going to do?
Tell me how the economy is going to work?
I'm going to guess that that Friday night dinner.
They used to like to go out on with their spouse or partner or
friends or whatever. I think they might go to dinner
this Friday. And spend money into the
economy. Maybe.
You know, maybe they want, maybe they won't get an eviction
notice from the landlord this month.
Maybe, I mean, go down the whole list of things if you suddenly
weren't twenty thousand dollars in debt, You know, that car
that's 10 years old, you know, maybe, maybe you can afford to
get a 5 year old car. What are they talking about?
Criticizing this? I mean legitimate criticism
today came from the Derrick Johnson, the head of the NAACP
and other progressives and including out myself.
When I say this is that if this this is a Band-Aid, it's a good
Band-Aid. Anybody who's suddenly twenty
thousand dollars debt free tonight.
Man, I'm not going to put that down and I'm glad that my money
goes for this. And when the anchor on CNN today
asked a Democrat. Will where's the money?
Where's the money coming from to pay for this?
Well, we're going to raise your taxes and other rich people's
taxes. That's one thing.
But really where it's coming from is that?
Here's actually, this is what I want to ask.
Why don't I ever when I'm watching the news ever hear the
question asked of a politician where you getting the money to
pay for a trillion dollar military.
I mean, why are you spending so much on the Pentagon?
Never hear that question to you or any of the other things where
you getting the money to give the rich the the multi-trillion
dollar tax break. Never asked. never ask it about
any of those things, but when it comes to education, oh yeah.
How are we paying for this? The question really is why our
young people being forced to pay anything at all.
For something, that betters our society, it doesn't mean
everybody has to go to college, you know, I went for a year but
we also know that a more educated Society.
It isn't just about where you're going to be able to earn more
money or whatever. It's that is that if you have a
knowledgeable populace, if you have a smart electric Doctorate
voters. They're not going to be swayed
by charlatans who tell them such easy lies.
They're going to question, they're going to have a critical
thinking button in their heads because they've read books
because they've sat in classes and debated issues.
Because they've been exposed to Art film, Etc.
They're going to they're going to wonder.
And that wonderment is going to lead to a better country.
This is something that should that should be and is encouraged
in so many other countries where college is free.
France, free most of society. Scandinavia free Germany.
Free. It's either free or mostly free
and virtually all of these European countries.
I mean, they have to pay room and board or they have to pay
for books or they have some registration fees or things like
that, but man, You know, why why do we do this to the kids that
we've just raised their just becoming adults?
It's like a punishment. Almost It has to stop.
And I just wanted to say that as I've returned from my two weeks
of not working that I don't think eight-year-olds or 16 year
old should be sitting in a classroom in their school here
in August and when they get out of school and I think they
should be able to continue their education and I'm more than
happy to pay for it with my tax dollars.
But that's that's the President Biden.
And other Democrats who are more moderate.
I asked you to really think about this.
Let's join the rest of the Civilized industrial world.
And not put our young people into immediate debt as they
become adults, that's not the way to start their lives.
Let's make College, let's get there.
Let's make college free. Let's forgive all of these
loans. We can take it, we have the
money, start taxing the rich, the way they used to be taxed
and should be taxed, and we'll be fine.
So, that's it. For today's episode of Rumble.
I'm glad to be back. I'm glad you're back.
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the kids who are having to get up and go to school in the
morning here in 95 degree weather.
But again, remember when I'm president, No school, till after
Labor Day, just put that on my bed whole list of things, I'm
going to do once I'm in office. All right, thanks everybody.
I'll talk to you again tomorrow. This is Michael Moore in this is
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