...Especially disturbing and revealing was Obama’s desire to tie the ability to receive federal financial aid to community service. This betrayed the senator’s utter ignorance of economics. It seems to me that the reason we provide federal financial aid as a society is to ensure that the best and the brightest among us actually end up in the professions that each of us is suited for, which in turn allows us to remain competitive in the global marketplace. ...we don’t want a society where only Paris Hilton can afford to go to law school because a nation led by Paris...
