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To: Minus_The_Bear

Actually, I do depending on what he actually said.

If a person is expecting us to fund a student loan, then maybe there should be some checks to make sure we’re not loaning money to a druggie who will never be a position to pay it back. If they don’t want to be tested, don’t ask for the loan.

It’s the same policy as in some sports, agree to testing if you want to work for us. Most employers have mandatory drug testing.


20 posted on 03/07/2011 12:51:50 PM PST by altura
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To: altura
There shouldn't be student loans in the first place.

The Dept. of Education is a complete waste.
23 posted on 03/07/2011 12:55:00 PM PST by Minus_The_Bear
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To: altura
Did anybody listen to what Dick Morris said??? He wants every High School student and every person who gets a student loan to be drug tested!

What conservative could agree with that?

Actually, I do depending on what he actually said.

I can think of 2 countries now without a serious drug problem, Communist China, and, certainly...North Korea. Police states are very good at wars on drugs...

The very idea that it's any of the government's business to fight the moral/medical scourge of addiction is a LIBERAL-BIG-GOVERNMENT assumption--birthed during Prohibition.

As to government loans for education?

Why in the world do we have student loans in the first place? We should just call them grants to the Leftist Professors Association, because that's exactly what they are. Do you wonder why the costs of tuition kept steadily climbing from the '80s on in spite of low-to-no inflation? GOVERNMENT FUNDING/INTERVENTION.

Why was tuition at IVY LEAGUE schools affordable to anyone who qualified just a couple generations ago?

That's the trouble with too many conservatives, they want small government for (obviously) liberal causes, without thinking through the costs of big government for ANY causes (which invariably eventually tends to help liberals anyway).

Ron Paul, as loony as he is on certain subjects, makes more sense in his principles than the Republican party (and the Democrats of course have NO principles) has for a long time now....

31 posted on 03/07/2011 1:15:00 PM PST by AnalogReigns
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To: altura

I agree with that theory of drug testing too.Anybody on the goverment teat or recives services like welfare or food stamps should be test for drugs (Including politicians).

You get nothing for nothing in my world.


45 posted on 03/07/2011 2:29:50 PM PST by TShaunK
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