# Thousands of dollars in student debt cancelled. Good news, right?

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 24, 2022, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-dollars-in-student-debt-cancelled-good-news-right/970242 "2022-08-24T19:55:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2022, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thousands-of-dollars-in-student-debt-cancelled-good-news-right/970242/348 "2022-09-01T03:01:13Z")

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> [@Chessic\_Sense](#):
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> You’re talking to the guy who started a thread asking why the hell social security recipients are receiving stimulus checks during pandemic shutdowns when they are as close to having guaranteed income as exists in this world.

For anybody who doesn’t remember, that was the same guy [who got his ass absolutely handed to him in the Boomer-bashing thread that he started about stimulus checks for Social Security recipients.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-social-security-recipients-getting-stimulus-checks/852073)

Probably the most succinct (and P&E-friendly) response to that ridiculous OP was this post from kambuckta:

> [@kambuckta](#):
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> The point of stimulus payments is to, y’know, stimulate the economy. It’s actually not designed to help individuals per se.
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> So giving a one off payment to everyone under a certain threshold encourages spending straight away, and we all know that the poorer people will rub their hands with glee and like, buy stuff, or get their car fixed, or maybe even splurge out and get a script filled that they were unable to before.
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> In this way do the wheels of capitalism continue to turn. […]
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> Australia gave everyone $900 at the start of the GFC and this measure alone was reputed to have prevented us going into recession unlike the many other countries who suffered considerable economic pain.

Bear\_Nenno’s response was another good patiently factual explanation (not that it seems to have sunk in any):

> [@Bear\_Nenno](#):
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> The OP doesn’t seem to understand that people who are making over $7,000 per month, and have lost no income at all, are still getting stimulus checks. If _they_ are getting them, then there is absolutely no reason at all for Social Security recipients to _not_ get them.

Man, that was a funny thread. Thanks for reminding us of it, Chessic\_Sense.

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