DISTURBED’s DAVID DRAIMAN Gets Blasted On Social Media For ‘Solution’ To Student Debt Crisis

DISTURBED frontman David Draiman has been criticized on social media for suggesting an oversimplified resolution to the coed mortgage disaster.

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Apparently in response to yesterday’s information that the federal moratorium on scholar mortgage repayments, which was set to finish subsequent month, has been prolonged via August 31, Draiman shared a 2019 political cartoon from Rick McKee, the workers cartoonist at The Augusta Chronicle. Within the cartoon, a professor may be seen standing subsequent to an enormous white board and utilizing a pointer to focus on to a scholar the two-step resolution to the coed debt disaster: “1. You took out a mortgage. 2. Pay it again.”

As anticipated, Draiman‘s tweet was met with an overwhelmingly destructive response from lots of his followers, a few of whom directed their ire at his band.

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“We should always all simply pull up our bootstraps and promote 17 million information by making monkey sounds with our mouths,” one particular person wrote.

“It has been some time since you have been related. Most likely will get mistaken as rogan on the mall’, one other consumer tweeted.

“So glad I hated DISTURBED as a child. Knew there was a cause”,” a 3rd particular person stated.

“Dude in a washed-up band with more cash than most individuals will ever see tells poor individuals to only ‘pay again their crippling debt’”, a fourth particular person tweeted.

A few different Twitter customers additionally blasted the 49-year-old Draiman for utilizing a shirtless photograph of himself as his profile image.

“That is humorous coming from a dude who would not actually have a shirt on in his pfp”, one particular person wrote. “Youre virtually 50”, one other consumer added.

In response to criticism of his Twitter profile photograph, David wrote: “I used to be comfy lol. Undecided why that makes it humorous, however go forward, knock your self out”.

One one that was seemingly in settlement with Draiman was former JUDAS PRIEST singer Tim “Ripper” Owens, who wrote: “Are they gonna repay my mortgage ? I am ready for that as nicely”.

Practically 46 million Individuals have $1.6 trillion in federal scholar loans.

Just a little over 10 years in the past, in quarter two of 2011, Individuals owed roughly $905 billion in scholar loans, which signifies that U.S. scholar debt has elevated by greater than 91% up to now decade.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. federal authorities enacted a freeze in scholar mortgage repayments since March 2020.

Draiman just lately bought his home in Honolulu, Hawaii for greater than $6 million and introduced plans to relocate to Miami, Florida.

The singer and his DISTURBED bandmates are engaged on materials for the follow-up to 2018’s “Evolution” album, tentatively due later within the yr.