Posted on 10/23/2011 10:11:53 AM PDT by traviskicks
Edited on 10/23/2011 10:43:06 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON — Republican presidential contender Ron Paul said Sunday he wants to end federal student loans, calling it a failed program that has put students $1 trillion in debt when there are no jobs and when the quality of education has deteriorated.
Student loans are a racket to make slaves out of white middle class young people, and allow black and mexicans to have a degree at no cost to them.
The willing servitude of middle class America proceeds as planned.
You might appreciate this:
A Modest Proposal to Abolish Universities
7/2/06 Fred Reed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1672282/posts?page=1
Bingo. Another incidious form of socialized re-distribution of subsidized money from taxpayers to leftist institutions that engage in propaganda and infecting the minds of those who become their political, cultural and economic slaves. It's the perfect con.
Even a stopped clock...
“So his solition to no jobs is to stop student loans?”
Talk about a red herring!
“Paul blamed government intervention in the economy for rising tuition.” That was from the article, see, I read it.
Show me a quote from the article that Ron Paul asserts that this plan of his IS to be a solution for jobs.
100k if gross income per year?
EXCUSE ME? How dare you say this. This is a racist comment!
Or better yet. Tie students being able to use loans at a college with some restraint on their tuition costs. That
would get the universities and colleges attention.
I'm not a fan of Paul but on this he is dead right.
We spend twice what we take in. There is no taxing our way out of that, there is no growing our way out. There is no serious way to contemplate balancing our budget that doesn't include eliminating whole departments of government.
If your government spends twice its income, it is attempting to do things it should not be doing.
Whole departments must be either divided up and handed off to the states. They can find ways to fund them if they want to keep them, or they can eliminate them.
Or privatize them.
Or simply eliminate them.
The federal government has no business being involved in education. It has no reason to own whole swaths of empty land taking up half the American West. Aside from office buildings and military bases, federal lands should be immediately handed back to the states (and in my opinion most of that should be auctioned off to the citizens).
Department of Energy needs to go. Likewise Department of the Interior. Likewise Education. Likewise Housing and so on down the line. Department of Transportation, Agriculture, divided up and handed off to the states for them to decide if the want them or not.
This government could run quite nicely and fund itself comfortably if you get it down to a half a dozen departments. A cabinet meeting ought to fit in the corner booth at Denny's. Its not just about budgets, its about freedom, but any candidate who doesn't understand that doesn't yet see the magnitude of the problem.
No. Banks should issue student loans (as they once did) and the government should have nothing to do with it. Do you disagree?
A student loan is not a subsidy you have to pay it back
My kids and husband took out loans for school and paid them back. I think it would be helpful if the Government was not making the loans but let private banks make them again.
He’s almost got the rationale, but in fact, student loan programs are a direct money funnel to Communists and Leftists who have overrun the campuses.
Higher education has become decoupled from vocation. What is the logical outcome for any industry which charges a high price for a product with little value?
Maybe that's how Obummer got to go there?
When I graduated from high school ('61) I looked into GM Technical Institute which granted BSME degrees and had a co-op program with GM divisions. I think tuition was folded into your salary during your six month OJT experience. I picked Chevy engineering for my division sponsor (I wanted to work for Zora Arkus-Duntov) and nearly made the cut. I was not selected because of my vision (20/400 uncorrectable right eye), Chevy required 20/20 uncorrected both eyes for anyone driving on the proving ground track. Damn!
Regards,
GtG
I am white and I went to inner city schools where blacks thought that jumping whitey was great fun. And they got away with it too.
Was that YOU, probably not.
So, how many blacks are getting student loans, that they have to PAY back, vs white kids? Financial aid was set up to help minorities, NOT white kids. Reverse racism has been government policy since the 1960’s.
And YOU don’t decide who gets these loans, so NO, it is not racist at all. The “deciders” are the racists, in my book.
Hillsdale College accepts no federal funding of any kind, even federally subsidized student loans. They have their own loan program in addition to funding their scholarships and grants without any federal assistance of any kind. If little Hillsdale can do it any other college should be able to get by without federally subsidized student loans.
Yeah, the Ivy League tend to be better at getting their students scholarships. The people that pay very much to go to them tend to be legacy students or really wealthy. That’s one reason why it’s so hard to get into them. They are basically buying intelligent lower-income (by that I mean not-upper class) kids to keep up their prestige in the school rankings, and they can afford to do it.
The schools that soak up all the money for the student loans are state universities handing out a ton of women’s studies and other useless degrees and a few good private schools that aren’t quite Ivy League.
There goes half his political support. Most of his supporters want exactly the opposite. They want more student money and the canceling of their student debt. I guess they are all going to swing back to Nader now.
Hillsdale has a pretty big endowment for its size. They have a $302,000,000 endowment with an undergrad population of 1,402. That’s around $215K per undergrad student. Nowhere near Ivy (Harvard is 1.5 million per student), but nothing to scoff at either.
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