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Fmr President & Senator Polnut
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« on: October 23, 2011, 06:42:23 PM »

I love this... so it's fine for the children of the wealthy to be able to walk into any college they want.

But the children of the poor, even middle-class can go 'f*** themselves'... and who are the ones accusing class warfare?
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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2011, 07:37:40 PM »

I don't even understand the logic in this. Federal loans aren't perfect, but they at least give an opportunity for everyone to go to college even if they have debt afterwords. Ideally state universities should be free like most countries in the world, but obviously too many Americans would rather maintain an inequality gap in universities that contribute some more in taxes every year to help better education. Getting rid of student loans helps education how exactly? States should be expected to allocate adequate funding for students? Do you think a place like California or Texas should be trusted with that responsibility when their state governments are dominated by batsh*t crazies? No wonder Paul is dropping in the polls with ideas like that. It's one thing to be opposed to the Department of Education, but forcing students to go cold turkey without college loans is dangerous and cruel.
do you know what "phase out" means?

Sorry... but if that's the only issue you have with what RC wrote... then the point is made.
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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2011, 07:53:35 PM »

This is my biggest problem with the Paulites, they seem to reside in a world where there are no real-world consequences of their positions.
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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2011, 09:08:58 PM »

This is what makes it so difficult to talk to Paulites, there are a lot of assumptions as to what will happen.

You assume that if federal loans are taken away, Universities will have to reduce costs? Therefore more students could get in without them... an assumption - you assume that states would re-instate their own schemes... but wouldn't that create the same distortion you're worried about?

Either way you slice it, it DOES support those who can pay full price to go regardless and makes a lot of assumptions of what 'could' happen that might make it possible for poorer students to go to college.
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