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It's Friday, April 26, 2019 from Slated to the Gist on Mike Pasca.

And Senator Elizabeth Warren has unveiled a massive plan to totally overhaul the US system of, well,

there aren't too many things that you can't end that sentence with.

I mean, she's done something old, farms, something new, tech, something borrowed,

national parks, something blue, stocks that paid dividends to people who are already wealthy.

All right, that was a stretch. But you know what else is a stretch?

The debt payments that a lot of college graduates have to make and Elizabeth Warren has a plan

to absolve them of that debt. Now, I don't love all of Elizabeth Warren's proposals.

She's actually had a few bad ideas in there, like foreigners can own farms.

And some are kind of besides the point of the main problem that they're trying to attack.

I mean, at least as she talks about her tech proposals, way too much of it is about Amazon

favoring its own brand of coffee maker on its website. But by and large, I like the idea that they

have specificity and details spelled out. I do think however, there is a bit of fetishizing

the specificities of the proposals or just the fact that she has proposals. Oh yeah,

she's white paper Warren. But that doesn't mean that everyone else can't or won't have good

ideas and maybe even if history is a guide. Her exact ideas. I mean, white paper Warren could

give way to consequential concepts, Camila or substantial scheme swallwell.

Hmm. Also, you don't have to come up with the plan in order to implement it effectively.

And conversely enacting a program and envisioning a program, they aren't actually that closely related.

But there is one objection to this latest debt relief plan, one very trendy objection

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