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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Pretty cut and dried, that.
And Trumpers don't read anything. They just pull out the kneepads.
Previously I heard him talk about the Government making money on the too high interest rates on Student Loans. And also how the fact that students can drop out of school and keep the money they received and not use it for education.
And when the students default on their loans, our tax dollars pay for their balance!
Needless to say, the “College Loan Government Program” has a lot of problems and needs cleaning up and run right!
If people want government to grow and prosper, elect a businessman as president.
I want government to shrink and become as minimal as possible. So I will vote for a limited government Christian conservative Constitutionalist as president.
Who is "we"? The American people -- through a government program Trump will create.
Irony of ironies (you can't make this stuff up), Trump, a man who made himself a household word over the course of seven recent years with his show "The Celebrity Apprentice," where he helped prospective folks apprentice toward better career skills, is angling for the top political job in the nation and arguably the world, with ZERO prior experience and ZERO apprenticeship in public office or public service.
In fact, Trump has only even been a Republican for the last six years -- unless you count the 12 years he was a Republican between '87 and '99, after which he briefly switched to Independent and then registered as a Democrat from 2001 to 2009.
Ronald Reagan, on the other hand, was a Democrat from about '45 to '62 before switching to the Republican party where he remained for the rest of his life. He served two terms as Governor of California before running for President, by which time he had been a Republican for 18 years.
Trump is a bad risk for American conservatives.
Posting verifiable truths about someone is different than attacking someone.
Relaying facts about Trump is a lot different than "hating" Trump.
Regulate the universities.
Get rid of that guaranteed money and colleges would be forced to compete and produce in order to survive... Prices would drop, courses would align to the market, and the premium would be placed upon excellence.
There's the problem with voting for nanny-staters.
Even in-context quotes taken from transcripts of his speeches and TV interviews?
I invite you, Duchess, to go to my posts in-forum and click on the links I provide.
All of the information I post here about Trump, I research and confirm, find the words he said and who he said them to. So far, I've found Trump to be wildly erratic politically and mostly with a record of moderate to left tendencies in politics.
Truth will set you free. In this case, free from taking a YUGE risk on a deeply flawed "conservative" candidate whose actual history and record indicate a total lack of political compass. Anyone who votes for a political leader who lacks a political compass, will be betrayed by that leader because they have zero idea what they're actually voting for. They can only "know" what they hope they're voting for.
Ted Cruz has a steady, strong, consistent political compass. I will be voting for Cruz, but more to the point, I will be voting FOR THE COMPASS. He has proven and demonstrated that he has one and that it has been his guide for decades. Cruz's political compass is very much like my own and very much like the one that guided our Founding Fathers and authors of the Constitution.
No no no!!! He's the host of "The Apprentice." Trump himself is apparently above ever having to serve any apprenticeships himself!
The Federal government could stop funding those courses in loans, etc. in the name of only funding course work and departments that lead to college level employment.
So all departments not qualified for Federal grants and the student loan programs would have to be self supporting by student, self paying (or private donor) selection. It is cruel to give students heavy debt and useless to society for an educational product that does not produce college level employment after graduation.
He's not a showman and skilled self-promoting billionaire celebrity household word for nothing! The ONLY REASON people even know who he is, is because of a carefully (and admirably, if I may say so) crafted image of "brilliant billionaire business mogul" that he has crafted for himself in TV, media, advertising and PR over the past decade or so.
If not for that, no one would know his name any more than they know the names of Dustin Moskovitz or Elizabeth Holmes.
And that is the TRUTH.
“Correction to the tagline — he says he’s going to build a wall and stop this invasion.”
He will...I’ve seen enough of Trump to know he’s serious about that, at least.
Don’t worry about it.
2) The reason why companies demand a degree is because of a Supreme Court decision, Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424 (1971), which barred companies from administering tests for hiring or placement, if blacks failed the tests more often than whites. So companies started to demand college degrees, in the hope of getting candidates who could actually read and write.
If people could just take standardized tests for literacy, math, etc, and have companies hire on the basis of the tests, the whole liberal education establishment would collapse. People who self-educated themselves would be hired in preference to semi-literate "black studies" majors. There would suddenly be no use for departments that did not actually educate people in skills which companies actually want.
Require the college to co-sign the loan, and people unlikely to get a job upon graduation would not be admitted in the first place.
...Even in-context quotes taken from transcripts of his speeches and TV interviews? ...
Quotes taken from speeches and interviews from 10-15-20 years ago? He is not allowed to change his views?
How is it then that Cruz is allowed to change his views from a year ago? Somehow that’s different?
They will also be a laughing stock and so will the Republican party for being so gullible as to fall so hard for the patriotic spiel of a self-promoted celebrity billionaire showman with ZIP political record or experience who was a registered Democrat only six years prior.
In retrospect, it will be, "What in hell were they thinking???"
That is, unless people muster the courage to look truth square-on during the next 12 months. Then they will make smarter, better choices.
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