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Independent journalist Megyn Kelly tore into Democrats’ latest push to cancel student loan debt.
During an interview on her podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show,” she spoke with “Ruthless” podcast hosts Comfortably Smug, Josh Holmes, and Michael Duncan about November’s midterm elections and how she believes Republicans are primed to perform very well.
Kelly turned her focus to New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — a vocal advocate for canceling student loan debt — and referred to her as a “one-trick pony.”
Kelly then asked her guests if they had received “free education,” which was a dig at Ocasio-Cortez and Democrats.
“Everything’s free, we should go back to our socialist roots and then the Democrats won’t be facing a blood bath in November,” Kelly said. “Didn’t you guys have someone pay for your college?”
“I remember being a bouncer at a college dive bar and bouncers are the guys who have to clean the bathrooms,” Smug said.
“I don’t think that’s true, Smug,” Kelly said with a laugh. “I feel like somebody took advantage of you.”
“Everyone else in this country has always figured out a way to budget for their education and again it’s progressivism masquerading as compassion,” Smug continued. “No it’s not – it’s a handout to the wealthiest, liberal, coastal. It’s like the liberal coastal elite embodied.”
Kelly then shared her own story, detailing how her father had passed away when she was still in high school and she had two older siblings already in college.
“He was only 45, we were not – we weren’t rich to begin with. So it’s not like he had some big fat life insurance policy. He had, like the bare minimum for when you’re in your 40’s and a professor,” Kelly said.
“She used the entirety of that payment to pay for the rest of – what she could – of my brother and sister’s college and my college education,” Kelly continued. “And all three of us had to take out loans on top of it, of course.”
“So, do I think now that I would’ve been better if the federal government had stepped in?” she asked, turning back to the issue at hand and asking whether students who voluntarily took out loans to fund their educations should have the government simply wipe that away.
“It would’ve been nice but I don’t think the neighbors should have to pay for my college education. My mom made a sacrifice. We took out loans too but we paid them back!” she continued.
“Why should these snot-nosed kids today – I’m sorry, the ones who really need it, they can get loans, but like you point out a lot of these people are going to be these college – Columbia – elite graduates who are going to spend their years in journalism trying to shame half of America for doing absolutely nothing wrong. Why should I be paying for their education? I don’t want to!” Kelly declared.
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