Yesterday, Steve tried to tell us, based on very dubious research, that US women are “deadbeats” — on their college loans — at about a 20% higher rate than similar men. They take 20% longer to repay (let’s just pretend that something in the 10% to 20% range might be defensible, on more rigorous / real data — for the sake of argument, at least).
Gee, Steve — didn’t you know that the average college educated woman makes about 20% less than the similar average man does, to this very day?
Of course he did. He’s just this malignant — as a sexist loser.
What a putz. Yes, that could explain why it takes them 20% longer to repay, you malignant moron.
Pew research offers us the reality, to this very moment:
…In 2022, women with at least a bachelor’s degree earned 79% as much as men who were college graduates, and women who were high school graduates earned 81% as much as men with the same level of education….
And all of that is BEFORE he purports to chart a look at race and ethnicity — where there are (at least as reported in his data) similar disparities. Also largely explained by earning differences, on average — but with the confusing variable that proportionately more people of color and of limited means end up borrowing from FOR PROFIT student lenders, many of which charge over 11% annual interest, once a student misses a single payment. [In the data, we would also note that on average college educated Asian-American men earn well over even the whyte male average — a tech effect, perhaps… but that explains why they are paying down fastest of all groups he purports to cover. Sheesh.]
And in many cases, the student loan can approach a 20% interest rate. These for profit shops use the FACT that no one may discharge student debt in bankruptcy… to run essentially pay-day loan scams, under cover of law.
So yeh — Steve Hayward? He’s a… putz.
UPDATED –Friday Night, Late: O M Gurd. His Friday yutz chart purports to show that immigration will be an issue that gives the GOP the lead to 1600 Penn, in 2024.
Poppycock. If the tick up this year means anything, Steve — please explain why for all eight years of Bush 43 / Cheney (2000 to 2008) it was at historic highs, almost at 50% of America supposedly dissatisfied — that too many immigrants were arriving? And why — through about six of the eight Obama years, it was falling, and generally trending below 40%, on the “dissatisfied” dimension.
And now… all it has done under Mr. Biden, is tick back up to just under 40%.
It was only Trump’s lawlessness that beat those numbers down, for about three years.
And — confidential note to Steve: College educated independent suburban women… DON’T vote for lawless dictators with (likely, by then) felony records — as a rule. Especially ones who relish trying to… “grab them by the p*ssy“. All while demanding that this same crook be put in charge of controlling / regulating their uteruses…? Yeh. Uh huh. Ride the lightning, son.
Cheers.
Out.
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