Posted on 03/30/2010 9:34:36 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Candace de Russy over at National Review posted an alarming example of Obama power grab. Or perhaps more precisely it's yet another alarming example of an Obama power grab. This time Obama apparently is setting the table to take control of what is printed in our nation's college textbooks.
This one slipped past my radar in August of 2009, but apparently Barack Obama signed the Federal Textbook Act (Download .pdf file) that made provisions for the federal government to take control of the pricing and availability of the text books in our institutions of higher learning (at least the ones that take federal funding).
According to the language of the act, it is all about keeping textbooks affordable for students...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
More proof of my theory that Americans are in an abusive relationship with Democrats as abusers.
See my post #9 on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2483105/posts
Liberals have already taken control of textbook content.
I just submitted my book order for fall semester. The early submission date was required to be in compliance with the federal statues.
The purpose of the statues (at least as told to the faculty) is to allow students to purchase new or used textbooks on-line and search out lower prices for these books.
Nothing like leaving text books to the whims of politics!
Oh wait, they already are, so what is Barak actually doing here? LibProgs already write the books and re-write history?
“Obama Breaks Down Student Loan Overhaul (Student loans will be forgiven!!!!)”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2483089/posts
Maybe you could add your insight on this article.
Within a couple of months, the ACLU will file suit and argue that student loans cannot be used for private religious schools. It would violate, they will argue, the separation of church and state.
Previous cases have held that such loans are legal since it is not the government who is providing the funds, but a private company. That is no longer the case.
Bill Ayers did not visit the white house at least three times in the past year to put his two cents in on healthcare. It was the education part he’s interested in.
ML/NJ
I skimmed this, but I think MM is right, that this is a federal attempt not at controlling the content of books but at forcing down the cost of “textbooks” through “unbundling. All that will happen is that profs will go back to putting an article on reserve in the library and having the students fight over who gets it when, or pay for the copies out of their own pocket.
This and the takeover of student loans are only possible because the invertebrates in the Republican Party never carried out their threat to eliminate the unconstitutional Dept. of Education.
You know who makes money on those college textbooks? The intellectuals who write them and force their students to buy them. He’s jabbing his comrades in the eyes.
I have to say, I don’t care WHAT its for... I don’t want the federal govt involved in textbooks at all!
Me either. I’m just saying I don’t think it was for matters of political slant THIS TIME. I don’t even want the government involved in education.
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