The government already runs most elementary and secondary education, they want to take over health care, now they want to shut out private lenders for student loans?
Barack Obama Prepares to Drive Up the Costs of Education
Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile)
Monday, January 25th at 1:00PM EST
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When Obama takes to the podium for the State of the Union, one of the things he is allegedly going to push is a wholesale federal take over of the student loan industry.
Already, his plans are causing a lot of students, particularly of private higher ed colleges and universities, problems with getting financing for education. Obama intends to shut out the usual third party lenders and put everything within the federal government — under a program that has been shown repeatedly to be highly inefficient and burdensome for academic institutions.
More troubling, by putting everything under the Department of Education, universities and colleges will be forced to adhere to federal rules, some of which conflict with the values of sectarian institutions that presently use the third party student loan system for their students.
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Click on the title to read the rest at Red State.
Does the government have to have its finger in everything? I mean, really, we have been involved with the loan program and it is a pain in the rear to begin with, but do we really need to give the government more and more control? Especially when the program they want to move everyone into has already proven to be highly inefficient? Is i just that the government wants more say in who does and does not get an education? What am I missing?
---Katie
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
What the Healthcare Debate is Really All About
Here is an excellent article from the Witherspoon Institute:
What the Health-Care Debate Is Really All About
by James C. Capretta
January 19, 2010
The choice the country faces in health-care reform is a stark one with profound ramifications: What process will best deliver affordable quality health-care to all Americans, a government-driven or market-driven one?
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The whole article is well worth reading, but what is really significant is the discussion on how well the Medicare Prescription plan has worked as a market based rather than government run program. Click on the title!
---Katie
What the Health-Care Debate Is Really All About
by James C. Capretta
January 19, 2010
The choice the country faces in health-care reform is a stark one with profound ramifications: What process will best deliver affordable quality health-care to all Americans, a government-driven or market-driven one?
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The whole article is well worth reading, but what is really significant is the discussion on how well the Medicare Prescription plan has worked as a market based rather than government run program. Click on the title!
---Katie
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