Posted on 11/21/2015 8:35:39 AM PST by Republican Wildcat
During a town hall Thursday evening in Iowa, Donald Trump told voters the "only way" to make college more affordable for low-income students is "to start some governmental program."
The Republican presidential hopeful was asked what measures he would take, as president, to ensure middle-to-low income Americans are able to "pay their tuition [and] afford books while they're going to school."
"Well the only way you can do it is you have to start some governmental program and you have governmental programs right now," Trump told the moderator during the forum, which was held at a local community college.
"They go, and they work, and they take loans, and they're borrowed up, and they can't breathe, and they get through college and the worst thing is, they go through that whole process and they don't have any job," the billionaire said, referring to the majority of undergraduates enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities.
He continued, "You know the one program that the U.S. makes a whole lot of money with is student loans, and that's maybe the one program they shouldn't be making money with."
"So we're going to have to start a program," he said. "We're going to do something very big with loans because you have to get these people going. They really feel down and out."
Pressed on what he would do to solve the burgeoning student debt crisis, Trump said, "we're going to do refinancing for people who have loans who literally can't do anything."
"We're going to do refinancing and extensions," he said. Both of Trump's leading Democratic opponents, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, have proposed refinancing existing student loans.
Last June, Senate Republicans blocked a vote on legislation sponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., that would have...
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If Trump wins the nomination, I won’t say conservatism will die in America, but it will set the movement back. People who “self identify as conservatives” will be completely discredited: they will be exposed as having no foundation for their beliefs.
Conservatism makes absolutely no sense when there isn’t a systematic philosophy to ground it. We really are just reactionaries if we’re not grounded in truth. We’re just fuddy duddies who oppose the cultural evolution that will sweep us into utopia.
Ted Cruz is a real person. That means he’s a realistic option.
And that very statement is exactly what I was talking about....did I say anything in post about Cruz? NO I did not...
I respect my candidate enough not to tear down another candidate to make mine look better...I understand that when you do that, you are tearing down another candidate and that makes you and your candidate lower your self into the gutter....
After hearing what you just said about Trump, do you possibly think I would support Cruz? NO, because you just lowered him down by talking trash about another candidate...
Have respect for your candidate and people will respect him or her, who ever your candidate is...don't trash talk other candidates....it just demeans them and you...
Exactly.
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GOP Operative Plans Guerrilla Campaign Against Donald Trump
Move comes as growing number of Republicans fear damage to party’s image and Hillary Clinton will become president
By Beth Reinhard and
Janet Hook
Updated Nov. 20, 2015 7:03 p.m. ET
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The Republican establishment, increasingly alarmed by the enduring strength of Donald Trump’s presidential bid, is ratcheting up efforts to knock him out of the race, including the first attempt to unite donors from rival camps into a single anti-Trump force.
A well-connected GOP operative is planning a “guerrilla campaign†backed by secret donors to “defeat and destroy†the celebrity businessman’s candidacy, according to a memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
A super PAC supporting Ohio Gov. John Kasich is airing a series of ads targeting Mr. Trump. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush struck with his bluntest attacks yet on Friday, and the super PAC associated with the Club for Growth, an economic conservative group, is trying to raise money to resume attack ads that it has run in Iowa against Mr. Trump.
Together, the efforts seem to represent a turning point in the GOP contest, in which other campaigns have previously been skittish about taking on Mr. Trump so directly. The sense of urgency has mounted in part because Mr. Trump continues at or near the top of GOP polls, even after many predicted that the Paris terror attacks would lead voters to turn to a more seasoned candidate.
The most concerted effort is Trump Card LLC, the self-styled guerrilla campaign being launched by Liz Mair, the former online communications director of the Republican National Committee.
“In the absence of our efforts, Trump is exceedingly unlikely to implode or be forced out of the race,†according to the Trump Card memo. “The stark reality is that unless something dramatic and unconventional is done, Trump will be the Republican nominee and Hillary Clinton will become president.â€
You’re not voting for Cruz because I told the truth about Trump? If Trump is not bloviating, or an idiot, then those words have no meaning. People have tried to point out how much of a liberal Trump is, and how we can’t trust him. The people who are still supporting him despite the body of evidence, should really just vote for him.
Then you must agree with all of these ...
"We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses. I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one." - Donald Trump, "The America We Deserve"
"We need, as a nation, to reexamine the single-payer plan..."(The U.S.) will "have to improve on the prototype." - Donald Trump, "The America We Deserve"
They're attacking Social Security -- the Republicans -- they're attacking Medicare and Medicaid, but they're not saying how to make the country rich again. People have been paying in for years. They're gonna cut Social Security. They're gonna cut Medicare. They're gonna cut Medicaid. I'm the one saying that's saying I'm not gonna do that!" - Donald Trump, April 20, 2015
"When the economy crashed so horribly under George Bush because of mistakes they made with banking and lots of other things, I don't think the Democrats would have done that." - Donald Trump, July 24, 2015
Care to revise and extend your remarks? Democrat Don has hardly changed his stripes.
The man does not stop and think before speaking.
Government jobs? Because that's the only kind a president can make.
I have been 100% Trump from the beginning...and nothing is going to deter me from that, but I hold my choice of candidate in high regards and won't lower myself to blast another candidate...I will however show what the media, GOPe and talking heads are doing to the candidates...or what they have said in their own words or in books they have written....
Each major can choose specific courses for their own students so the computer science department can direct students to take a specific history, writing and/or business class that serves it’s purposes.
I don’t see how race hate studies or gender twister studies or Marxist point of view “history” classes are going to help American computer science majors. Just take it out of the Universities’ hands to allow each department to create their own curriculum with relevant course work. If the departments pick crap Marxist courses for their students, students can steer clear of those schools.
He may not be as Conservative but then again neither was Reagan. I will not vote, nor will millions of others, any more lying, jackass, professional politicians who cannot and will not deliver on what they say they will.
Both parties are corrupt and have outlived their usefulness. So look that up in Funk & Wagnalls!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is the opening paragraph:
During a town hall Thursday evening in Iowa, Donald Trump told voters the “only way” to make college more affordable for low-income students is “to start some governmental program.”
There are two sets of quotes attributed to Trump which book end the author's “to make college more affordable for low-income students is” thought.
So, spare me your “playing games” snarky comment.
Government programs are what caused this mess!
Every school is different.
Our university mandates a set number of “General Education” courses (about 1/3 of the total required for graduation); these are spread across math/science, liberal arts, social sciences and business. The departments can, in turn, require a fixed set of these, but not more than 20% of the mandated total. So the student has a fair about of flexibility in deciding which GE courses they want to take. You can advise, but it is their decision. From a practical standpoint, almost no Comp Sci student takes race or gender “victim” courses—they’re not that stupid.
Personally, I think its a fair system.
Conservatism in itself has no real Ideology or Philosophy behind it even going back to Edmund Burke.
When people try to define Conservatism they borrow from Libertarianism and Free Market Capitalism.
Conservatism really seems to be against things but never really offers a compelling alternative.
I think in Trump we see practical politics at work, the commons sense and logical. Right now that may be what this country needs.
It’s pretty bad when we have to recheck the ass media to see if they are lying, which they do so consistently in presidential election, and especially lying in this one.
Personally, I think the race and gender and marxist social studies mentality is deadly for our society’s freedom because it cleanses and pollutes our culture and twists our identity and history. It has no place in American universities. Marxism is a failed and deadly ideology.
You are wrong x4.
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