Welcome to the podcast. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant podcast.

Some might call it the flagship podcast of the dispatch empire.

And today we have

No Steve Hayes and no Sarah Isger and

Subbing in for both of them is our own Declan Garvey. Welcome Declan. Thank you. And as as per usual

the cohost of our very well traffic for a niche podcast

David French host of the cohost of the advisory opinions David welcome on board.

niche you miss pronounced flagship.

When I say niche I mean selective like in spinal tap. Oh okay. So I think I've already screwed up the format for it.

So for all I know I'll be re recording that intro. But today we're going to talk primarily.

We're just going to we're in the dog days of summer. This is the last week of August.

And so we're basically just going to wallow in politics and

public policy as it pertains to

college debt relief.

So we were talking in the green room. David was warning me that that Declan's gone pretty radical on this.

So since David's the lawyer and he knows how to keep his passions in check.

Why don't we start with David? You know what do you think's going on and what's your take on it with the student debt really?

Yeah. I just got to say I don't like this on every which way. I've been trying to steal manate.

You know I've been trying to sort of think okay what is what's the argument here?

But economically you know it's inflationary right when we are in a inflation cycle battling inflation.

By some measures it may eat up entirely the alleged benefits of the inflation reduction act.

We just endured this is a form of government largesse aimed not at America's struggling

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