For example: I recently posted in a thread about the student loan takeover. In my post, I pointed out that, in many ways, the federalization/socialization of student loans is nothing new. My argument was that, while the Stafford loans (and others) that the Federal government has now taken over were nominally private prior to the takeover, they have been effectively government loans for decades - banks and other private institutions loaned the money and serviced the loans, but eligibility criteria was federally mandated, and the federal government guaranteed something the principal of each loan.
Some people took my above argument, and seem to think that I support the student loan takeover. I do not. To the contrary, I oppose the student loan takeover and the entire Federal student loan program it modified - the availability of government student aid is one of the primary drivers of the increase in the cost of higher education, and has given the Federal goverment tremendous power to effectively decide who can and cannot go to college. I was simply trying to point out this bigger picture.
I think that many of my "disagreement" posts are along those same lines. People around here can get so lost in the particular political battles of today that they tend to lose sight of the big picture. The immediate battles are important, yes, but so is the big picture. Oppose Obama and the 'rats, get 'em all out of office, and roll back everything Obama's done - sure, of course. But that's not (that CANNOT be) the end goal. We need to roll Obama's stuff back, but ALSO roll back the entire foundation of socialism upon which it's built. I think that too many people around here think that simply undoing Obama's policies will solve all of our problems. It won't. It's certainly necessary, but it's also certainly insufficient.
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