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It appears Ben Kamens fumbled the social media game by crying his big thanks to President Joe Biden for erasing his student debt, a lavish gift to himself courtesy of hardworking Americans. The irony here is thicker than Kamens’ naiveté: as the communications director for Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, Kamens already rakes in close to $100,000 a year. And guess what? This little celebratory post sparked a well-deserved backlash.
Here’s the ugly truth that folks like Kamens conveniently overlook: When Democrats prop up student loan forgiveness, it’s the blue-collar American footing the bill. Plumbers, truck drivers, mechanics, you name it—these salt-of-the-earth workers are the ones forking over their hard-earned money for some overpaid bureaucrat’s college degree. Blame Obama’s tenure for the skyrocketing tuition rates; his moves to rope the government into the student loan sphere made higher education as economically inflated as an air mattress.
What This Dem Comms Director Tweeted Explains Why Trump Remains on the Political Scene his student loans were forgiven despite being the communications director for Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), where he makes close to $100,000/year.
— Rob (@Rob189441487451) June 23, 2024
Twitter’s sleuths were quick to uncover even juicier tidbits about Kamens. Turns out this cunning maestro of communication was already enjoying the plush benefits of a federal employee student loan repayment program, making his public debt relief celebration even more infuriating. His living address? Out of state, with a property valued over a half-million dollars. Essentially, Kamens was already living pretty high on the hog before Biden’s benevolent handout.
Incredibly, the same Democrats who tout themselves as the working class’s greatest champions are shoving the burden of these loan bailouts on those very people. Oilfield folks, construction workers, and other manual labor heroes are grinding away, day after scorching day, only to have a chunk of their paychecks rerouted to pay off an elite’s Met Gala excursions or avocado toast habits. This glaring disconnect is why populism is alive and well and why Trump remains a political force.
Even Democratic veteran James Carville had the foresight to predict this going down like a lead balloon. Middle America isn’t looking for free handouts; they value hard work and self-reliance—concepts foreign to luxury-loving Democrats. But hand out freebies, they must, lest they break their pathological addiction to cripple the working and middle classes, inching closer and closer to their utopian socialist fantasy.
Maybe next time, Kamens will think twice before broadcasting his windfall to a nation that’s scraping by to fund his elite lifestyle. Locking his Twitter account wasn’t going to shield him from the well-deserved public outcry. Lesson learned—if only it weren’t at taxpayer expense.
