Ron Paul promises to end federal student loans.
If it wasn't for our government selling us out and moving jobs overseas, those student loans would be paid. Jobs would be lucrative and he wouldn't have to be concerned about a bailout. How can many students pay the loans, if there isn't any work? Most of them are working for minimum wage and the purpose of going to school was for a higher education and being able to work for a nice salary. Our government should be bailing out people, they didn't have any issues with bailing out banks.
- PrettyPantherposted 12 years ago
0 Yeah, but how good could his books be?
I haven't seen them hit the Dollar Store (like a certain former Veep candidate's).
LOL
I agree about qualification inflation, but also think that education is important enough to the general welfare of American society (and the American republic itself - no democratically based system can survive without an educated populace) that it should continue to be subsidized to some degree. I think the system some European countries have, where higher education is free or very low cost for students who meet certain merit-based qualifications, might solve both the problem of people who really shouldn't be pursuing higher education pursuing higher education because they think they have to, and the problem of ensuring that poor but deserving students have access to the opportunities they need to advance themselves without taking on crippling levels of debt or being forced to divide their attentions between work and school in a way that is detrimental to their academic success.
I also agree with you that some sort of relief of student loan debt is in order. The last generation or two has been told practically from infancy that they HAVE to attend college and now they are being punished with crippling debt for doing exactly what they were told to do. I don't support forgiving student loans entirely, but you have to admit that it would do far, far more to jump-start the economy than the trillions of dollars we've given away to the banks over the last few years. We need to stop treating corporations like they're "too big to fail" and start treating the American people like they're "too big to fail."
"Most of the terrible mistakes done the past decade were done by some of the most "educated" members of society. Many people on the fringes with less education could easily see the mismanagement. "
Hmm, I disagree that education was the cause of the mismanagement. I know plenty of seriously overeducated people (like, multiple advanced degrees overeducated) who were hopping up and down on the sidelines tearing out their hair as well.
The real difference, imho, is degree of cronyism. Ordinary Americans, whether high school dropouts or three time PhDs, could easily see the idiocy of TARP (to name one example), while its architects in the Bush administration and the Obama campaign were blinded by being former employees of (or friends of employees of) the banks that got the bailouts. Not to mention by the millions of dollars in campaign contributions the big banks shell out to buy themselves pet politicians.
Same with the Iraq War. The neocons in the Bush administration created an echo chamber for themselves, consisting almost entirely of oilmen, defense contractors, and others with major financial incentive to push for war. Unfortunately in that case they also managed to do the same in the US media, so it took people longer to catch on to the fact that we'd made a colossal mistake, but even so there was a substantial minority of the population that opposed the war from the start, including thousands upon thousands of those indoctrinated college students you deride. My own campus had anti-war demonstrations practically every day in the weeks and months leading up to the war.Good, I don't want my tax dollars spent on someone else's education. Why does everyone think they are entitled?
- Wilfionposted 12 years ago0
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