Posted on 07/12/2013 4:18:00 PM PDT by markomalley
A Georgetown University student blamed the Republicans for allowing student loan rates to double, while another said that all Republicans should be put to death.
Campus Reform interviewed Georgetown students about their thoughts on student-loan reform and the GOP in general. One student gave a startling answer when asked whether he supported the Republican plan.
“I don’t think I support anything the Republicans do,” he said. “I think all of them should probably be put to death.”
Another student, who was watching the interview, chimed in with, “That was a little harsh.”
Off camera, the first student said, “No, it wasn’t.”
Another student complained that it was “arbitrary” and “douchey” for the Republicans to allow student-loan interest rates to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. When asked whether he thought all Republicans were generally douchey, he said, “Just the ones on the Hill.”
The interest rate jump was hardly arbitrary, however. It occurred automatically after the Senate failed to hammer out a compromise before July 1. Republicans, moderate Democrats and President Obama support a plan to index student-loan interest rates to financial markets, which would keep them low for now while allowing for higher rates in the future.
Liberal Senate Democrats, including Majority Leader Harry Reid, would prefer to keep Congress in control of student loans and have blocked the plan, preferring a flat three-year extension of the lower rates.
Even though the interest rate has already increased, Congress could change it back retroactively, though it’s unclear whether a deal will be reached by the end of the summer.
Many students, it seems, would oppose the Republican plan, no matter what the plan was.
Ah yes, the tolerant left? You don’t think so? Just ask them, and they’ll tell you they are!
Georgetown lost all pretence of moral and academic excellence years ago.
No one gives a smelly Pbama what is said by the members of Catholic Gay U.
It appears he supports at least one thing the Republicans support ... the death penalty.
“I don’t think I support anything the Republicans do,” he said. “I think all of them should probably be put to death.”
The feeling is mutual, you worthless freaks.
What is amazing is that government is basically allowing these punks the opportunity to waste away in school until they’re 25-26 without ever having to work a day in their lives.
80% of those sent to college on the taxpayer’s dime shouldn’t be there. They should be working. That’s why we have so many illegals come to this nation is because so many of these clowns stay in school forever. They need to get out and work.
I am conservative before I am a Republican, but I don't think they really want to try that. They really, really, really don't want to try that.
It's that broad brush again.
I met many Georgetown students during my daughter's 4 years there and, perhaps because they were all taking academically rigorous courses (and preparing themselves for a productive life,) had no time to dwell on hate speech and the "gimme" culture.
All Universities have the culture of takers/slackers. Some just more than others.
Which black leaders make the news constantly? The race-baiters, the losers, the incompetent parasites.
Same with student bodies.
Oh, the irony that if this nation survives, give it 20 to 30 years, a majority of these kids will be republicans.
Then they will be shot by their own children.
Typical of college students,who happen to be the biggest suckers of all,wasting so much money on trying to educate idiots.
Look who wrote the law on college loans and who made it so it would expire at just the right time to get the Pavlovian dog response from the so called college educated,better know as morons,who are manipulated and they don’t even know it,the Congress was completely controlled at the time by Democrats.
What gets me is that in 2007 - when the Democrats ran the House - they put into law that the rate would double in 2012.
I think it’s perfectly acceptable as a society to promote college education, however, it should be done in a way that promotes the graduates we need, for example doctors or engineers. You have to get certain grades and be in certain fields and only take so long in college.
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