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President Singles Out GOP Congresswoman — Tells Students to ‘Google’ Her

While speaking to a crowd of cheering college students at the University of Colorado in Boulder Tuesday, President Obama singled out Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) for recent comments she made about student loans.

“I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that,” Rep. Foxx said in a radio interview.

“We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that. I remind folks all the time that the Declaration of Independence says ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ You don’t sit on your butt and have it dumped in your lap,” she added.

Rep. Foxx’s comments offered the president an opportunity to contrast his newfound concern for struggling college students with fiscally minded Republican and Tea Party candidates.

“I want to read a quote. This is from a Republican congresswoman. I didn’t really understand this. I’m quoting her,” the president said.

“She said that she has ‘very little tolerance for people who tell me they graduate with debt…because there’s no reason for that.’ She said, students who rack up student loan debt are just sitting on their butts, having opportunity ‘dumped in your lap.’”

“You guys can Google her or what have you,” President Obama added.

Watch the president go after Rep. Foxx at the 7:40 mark (via 9News.com):

“Think about that. I can tell you, Michelle and I, we didn’t take out loans because we were lazy. You didn‘t take out loans because you’re lazy,” President Obama said. “You did it because the cost of college kept on going up, and you’re trying to graduate.”

He continued, turning his not-a-campaign speech into an all-out critique of his Republican opponents:

And if [Republicans] were serious about making college more affordable, then they wouldn’t be voting to cut financial aid in their – their budget, if you look at their budget, what it means is you’re going to be cutting aid for 10 million college students by an average of more than $1,000. They certainly wouldn’t let student rates double overnight if they really cared about this issue.

They say that, well, we‘ve got to do it because we’ve got to bring down the deficit.

Now, first of all, these guys ran up the deficit. Remember, these are the same folks who voted in favor of two wars without paying for it, and big tax cuts without paying for it. They just voted to keep billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies to big oil companies who are raking in record profits.

They just voted to let millionaires and billionaires keep paying low tax rates — lower tax rates than middle-class workers. They just voted to give an average tax cut of at least $150,000 to the wealthiest Americans — folks like me who don’t need it, weren’t asking for it.

And the way they pay for it is to cut things like education and job training that give students opportunities to work and succeed.

So they can’t be too serious about deficits.

It should be noted that earlier that day, while not-campaigning in North Carolina, President Obama used the same Congresswoman to make the same point.

“Now, can you imagine saying something like that? Those of you who’ve had to take out student loans, you didn’t do it because you’re lazy,” the president said.

“You didn’t do it lightly. You don’t like debt.”

(H/T: Washington Examiner)

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  • lembrandt
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:29pm

    Why doesn’t somebody – anybody – in the media point out that the incredibly high cost of “higher education” is completely and totally caused BY LIBERALS.

    Virtually every single classroom in this country is controlled by the left. Virtually every school administration is operated by the left.

    Consequently, every single penny of increased college costs can be righteously laid at the feet of the democrat, liberal, progressive, socialist, Marxist apparatus in this country.

    And now President A** H*** wants to shift the cost of college to the tax payer (which he will do either by offering really low loan rates or simply, eventually, offering a free education up front or forgiving all student loans as a means of gathering student votes) which will eventually amount to *another* huge tax increase on the producers in this country to subsidize more generations of zombie socialist students who have no idea they are being brain washed every day they sit in a classroom.

    Flush this man and his colleagues into the toilet of history and do it soon.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:39pm

      ya think the gov has a plan to drop the trillion dollar student loan debt bomb soon…………..the tuitions started to rise dramatically when government started subsidizing them

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    • lbyrd26
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:40pm

      I’ts an election year! He has to troll for whatever votes he can catch coming out from under the fridge when he turns on the kitchen lights. This is just good political trickery, as it keeps people from talking about his history as president. Getting to talk about a congress woman, is keeping us from talking about him. Oh, by the way, If you see her whole statement (so don’t watch MSNBC if you want to see the statement in context) you‘ll see that her point was that these people shouldn’t come out of college and expect the tax payer to pay off the debt they created for themselves.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:40pm

      What they also don‘t say is many of the big colleges have their own endowment to the tune of billions of dollars and they also don’t say that many students fail to pay back their loans thus driving up the rate for everyone else.

      Obama is such a liar.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:44pm

      Who knows! How come nobody points out how upside-down Americans are? It’s supposed to be a nation whose government protects Liberty, so all people have a chance to pursue opportunity by their own lawful means. In that it is exactly the truth that all people are not created equal because they are born of the fruit they have earned, and Liberty gives them the opportunity to increase that fruit if and when they are born again – “Lest you be born again you will not acquire the Kingdom ‘of’ Heaven.” In the Bible ‘Women’ are not the same as ‘Woman’, moreover women are taken from men, and woman is taken from man. You all wreck your own nation because of your own ignorant arrogance, believing yourselves as gods and the deciders of who is equal. People are not born equal because they didn’t labor beforehand to gather the same fruit as another, and yet they want to steal God given fruit from another. Surely the world will collapse.

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    • kat747
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:45pm

      absolutely the truth !

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    • Ray2447
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:45pm

      President Obama should Google “Marxist Valley College” at Youtube to see the kind of brainwashing and thuggery young students are subjected to on taxpayer funded colleges and universities as shown in “Marxist Valley College” at Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iVmh0VCkL4

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    • 79USMC83
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:49pm

      Hum I wonder if the “Speech Giver” or his wife waited tables or worked any type of job while they attended school ? Taking out credit is a choice on purcashing anything. Who is making money on college loans? The “Governement Stupid” is, they control the market !!! The R-congresswomen is right !!

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    • HKS
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:53pm

      Liberals want you a slave by any means available, Illegal immigrates, (the ultimate slave) citizens in debt to their eyeballs with student loans they will never pay off, also an excellent slave, with worthless education and no jobs to support it. We need skilled workers, not more prema donnas to lean on the water cooler and collect six digit wages. Why do you think liberals won’t enforce the immigration laws, you guessed it, more slaves.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:55pm

      Isn’t it now the Federal Government that controls and handles students loans!!! So who should be blamed for higher interest rates on those loans!!! Obama is responsible, the universities and colleges are responsible for the higher costs of education. Higher education is no longer worth the price. They only indoctrinate students into socialism now.

      NHwinter  
    • grudgywoof
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:55pm

      Because they are in with them that’s why. How great is it for your kids to start life with that kind of debt. If you don’t have the means then serve in the military and “earn” money to put with the G.I. bill. Thats what my Dad did and he had 0 debt when he greaduated college. This is what America has become, a bunch of selfish jerks who think they are owed the good life. I didn‘t go to college but my wife did and we make compairable money so it’s just not true that you have to go to college. You have to work your ass off……..that’s it.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:01pm

      But alas, look what the Lord has done. The lord has taken the fruit away from your great grand children of your fore-bearers, and this next generation can not provide let alone pay-off the debt you have laden them with, as it is you decided to enslave their fruit for the luxurious present and former way of living. All you heathens took it for granted that just because you view yourselves as elite, that your heathen off-spring would be elite.

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    • Coralchristie
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:03pm

      Yes and the 2007 Democrat Congress was the one that time-bombed the loan rates to return to what the President refers to as a Republican raise instead of return to Democrat levied rates. It was a smart political move by the Democrats but will take good people to step up and tell what really happened.

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    • HKS
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:04pm

      I have a problem with this president out campaigning for re-election on tax payer money and time. This is just wrong and something needs to be done about it. If you agree make some noise about it. I have written everyone I can, need more newspaper editorials and the like.

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    • GrandmaNRichmondTX
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:04pm

      The only reason obama wants all kids to go to college is so that he and his ilk can indoctrinate them. I, me, and mine. He can’t run on his record so he will demonize anyone and everyone who bucks up to him.

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    • HKS
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:09pm

      Spending social security money to champagne for re-election by Obama is just wrong. We need to make a lot of noise on this issue. Our social security is going to be cut next year to pay for Obama’s champagne travel this year. Make some noise.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:12pm

      Itsjusttim – I don’t know who you are trying to impress or convert, or to what you are trying to convert people to. Your condemnation of people accomplishes nothing. You come off as arrogrant. If there is a message you are trying to relay to people, try stating your thoughts as concern for people. Honey gets more flies! Most people on this site did not vote for Obama. Maybe you should try Huffpo is you want your message, whatever it is, to be heard by people who did actually vote for Obama. We are tremendously concerned about the debt and the life our grand and great grandchilren will live.

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    • dmerwin
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:17pm

      You realize that your first question/statement was rhetorical?

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    • TurkE
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:25pm

      How come the media let’s these a-hole professors (O’Blamer included) hammer on the CEO’s, who make this country run, about how much they earn, yet say nothing about how much these “educators” make, kicking back at their institutions of higher learning. How about someone getting the balls to grill them about how much they earn for indoctinating instead of educating? They are the reason colloge costs are as high as they are. And don’t forget about the college endowments hoarding all their cash while tuitions continue to rise and salaries/pensions/other benefits increase and our children’s quality of education decreases. Time to get off the fence and start asking more questions of the colleges before no one can afford a degree.

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    • keaton
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:26pm

      What needs to be pointed out is the prevalence of “ predator educators” out there who knowingly entice students into taking degree’s, and paying exorbitant prices for these degree’s, which are useless to the students prospects of making a living. Meanwhile these schools, professors, and money lenders, live handsomely on the proceeds of this useless education.

      Just like Obama railed against “predatory lenders” , I want to hear him go after these 1% ers, these “predatory educators”! I won’t hold my breath.

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    • Jaycen
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:34pm

      When the government subsidizes something, cost goes up because demand goes up. The government creates an artificial demand by allowing people who otherwise wouldn’t have gone to college to rack up debt and go anyway.

      That’s why you have classes like “women’s studies”. People who aren’t intelligent enough or serious enough for real classes can now attend an expensive school and waste time on a useless degree.

      If students have to pay their own way, they’re more likely to make prudent choices.

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    • encinom
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:38pm

      NHwinter
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:55pm
      Isn’t it now the Federal Government that controls and handles students loans!!! So who should be blamed for higher interest rates on those loans!!! Obama is responsible, the universities and colleges are responsible for the higher costs of education. Higher education is no longer worth the price. They only indoctrinate students into socialism now.
      _____________________________
      Its the GOP Congressmen like Foxx that are attempting to block the extending the Bush era reduction in interest rate.

      As for the value of high education its clear that the inbred, home school drop outs find no value in anything that would challenge their bigotted world view based on the teachings lying preachers and Fox News.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:38pm

      “And if [Republicans] were serious about making college more affordable, then they wouldn’t be voting to cut financial aid …”

      Oh, really?

      See here.

      Guess Who Openly Admits That Gov’t Intervention Increases Prices? Joe Biden
      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/guess-who-openly-admits-that-govt-intervention-increases-prices/

      Ron Paul 2012!

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Geez, I have student loans for $100,000 for a major in social justices as it relates to pine trees and I am having a hard time finding a job. Seems to me someone should pay for this loan cause they never told me I couldn’t get a job with such a useless education. Not my fault I’m the victim here and I deserve an $80,000 a year check with benefits because of it, my professor’s said so. /sarc out.

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    • Madmilo
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:09pm

      Mark Levin is the only one I know of that will tell people the its the libs that are driving up cost in the schools.

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:10pm

      Do Christians not see that we have a civic duty in the very least as Romans 12:20 points out to: “Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good”? These are excerpts from the speech given on March 23, 1775 by Patrick Henry (Christian farmer)to the legislature.

      “This is no time for ceremony. The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should
      consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the majesty of heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings…”…There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
      Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged!… Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace, but there is no peace.
      THE REST IS HERE: http://www.dailyjot.com/dailyjot/The_Jot.ht

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    • kryptonite
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:19pm

      Who paid for your Ivy League education, you m-fing commie? Where are your college transcripts, Barack Hussein, Muslim-born, Islam-financed implant?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:21pm

      ENCIDIOT…who sets tuition fees?

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    • slr4528
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:22pm

      Romney and the GOP should aggressively push the issue of rising college rates to show that it is the liberal left that is inflating the costs of a college education when discussing student loan interest rates.

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    • barber2
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:23pm

      Religious Troll: The greatest arrogance displayed anywhere is by the young Left elitists . The “ good job” generation who were exposed to real competition, were never taught the word “no,” nor to have any pride in their own country . And guess your Affinity group must not only be down on America, capitalism, religion, Beck, conservatives, but also older Americans ( you cover that topic wrapped in your religious gobble-**** ). Don’t know why you guys keep peddling this baloney here . Only the young college kids that Obama is trying to mesmerize and brainwash would buy this baloney. The rest of us are older and wiser. Know about anarchists. Black blocks. SDS. OWS. Don’t you have some things to do to get ready for May 1?

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:24pm

      Pledge to defeat Obama in November!!!

      https://www.freedomworksforamerica.org/pledge?source=contrib

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    • wzanesdad
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:32pm

      tim,
      very good posts today…..I was actually able to follow what you were saying. You make some good points.

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    • In the O.C.
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:42pm

      I agree with you. There are SO MANY things that are effectively NOT addressed in the media by those who CAN make statements questioning the veracity of and commenting upon LIES LIES AND MORE LIES claimed by the opposition. And we’re not just talking about opinions here – I’m talking about TRUTH in claims which are NEVER questioned or pointed out. This is one area the Republicans and the Republican candidate for president MUST get on board with and show some guts. This is exactly what needs to be done. I concur with you. We MUST fix this – and NOW.

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    • DisgruntledInClinton
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:00pm

      Says the man who had his college bills paid for by Bill Ayers and, probably, Soros. I doubt Bams had any debt- I‘m sure he’s referring to “their” debt as Moochelle’s debts.

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    • MAMMY_NUNN
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:29pm

      They also fail to mention a College degree does not guarantee success if you have no drive you can be a professional student with many degrees and not know how to apply the knowledge and still be a failure. Take a look at Moochelles College education she is now a spokesperson for healthy eating and exercise something totally different than what she went to College for. Total waste of a College education.

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    • Sue Dohnim
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:53pm

      How Obama got into Harvard… video interview with Percy Sutton..

      I was introduced to [Obama] by a friend,” Sutton told the interviewer. Sutton named the friend as “Dr. Khalid al-Mansour.” Sutton described al-Mansour as “the principle adviser to one of the world’s richest men.” The billionaire in question is Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIVO8MZYXo8

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    • james1968
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:59pm

      He is going to be hard to flush. Might have to poke him a few times with a toilet brush first then flush twice.

      http://crazyconservative.wordpress.com/

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    • slidder
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:13pm

      Spot on but Liberals cannot and will not face their Failures and have no real problem continuing to be good at Failure!

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:18pm

      ENCIDIOT…I’m still wating champ…who sets the tuition fees?

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    • OnceIsEnough
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:33pm

      When I went to school, I was working FULL TIME, and going to school part time in the evening. I went to community college and then transferred to State when I finished lower division classes. It took me 7.5 years to get my undergrad, but I did it without LOANS. Now, students put their tuition, books, housing, and “living expenses” (aka partying/socializing), on their student loans. How can we have poor Johnny working and distracting himself from school. Besides, working is counter-intuitive to the socialist agenda most college ascribe to anyway.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:41pm

      I worked for five years prior to going to college, and also worked while in college. I graduated with no college debt. Granted, I went to Columbus State University and not Harvard, but heck, sometimes you have to do what is in your means. Then again, I did not grow up in the trophy generation, where everyone gets a prize for showing up.

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    • VerySeniorCitizen
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:50pm

      @ COFEMALE

      I‘m sure you aren’t aware – or you wouldn’t have tried to make such a point.

      If a someone takes out a ‘student loan’ – no matter for how much, they go thru life being required to pay off that student loan. It doesn’t matter if that person files for bankruptcy (even more than once during their life) they can NEVER rid themselves of that student loan. And if that person dies still – owing on that student loan – then the ‘estate’ is STILL responsible for paying off that loan.
      THAT IS THE LAW. So while they might not be current with payments – they can NEVER get rid of what they owe!

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    • cmonnow
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:52pm

      “incredibly high cost of “higher education” is completely and totally caused BY LIBERALS.”

      Wrong – Sallie Mae is headed by Al Lord – a conservative. He and his industry do everything in their power to ensure that the student loan industry is unregulated, unsupervised, and and wide-open. All to the tune of taxpayer guarantees.

      Do some research..

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    • VerySeniorCitizen
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 5:52pm

      @ SPANDEMONKEY

      NO, you don’t have to vote for anyone. ONLY in Australia are prople FINED for NOT VOTING!

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    • Rick54
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:17pm

      “If it ain‘t broke don’t fix it” well they had to break it first so they can say their going to fix it. all part of their plan.

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:17pm

      One of the colleges I went to is pushing Agenda 21, building a second NFL type stadium, and buying drones. I took calculus there and never once during the semester did I ever see my teacher. He/she has tenure and has students teach in his place while he does nothing. No doubt that he gets an outrageous salary, entitlements, and retirement for doing nothing too. Why does a math teacher need tenure anyways? Tenure was supposed to protect teachers teaching controversial subjects. Math isn’t controversial…
      The college’s absurd waste of money does nothing to help the students, it hurts them. They drive the tuition up and the more they get from the government, the more money they waste. The out of control tuition costs are mostly due to dishonest greedy parasitic Liberal hypocrites.
      Notice that Encinotroll resorted to name calling and ignored tuition costs. This is the Liberal’s oldest tactic. As one of my Liberal teachers once said, “If you can’t win an argument, redirect the argument and call your opponent a racist. Since it‘s impossible to prove you’re not a racist, you win.” I see it the opposite way. If you resort to redirection and name calling rather than using honest argument, it shows to me that you have nothing.
      Liberals are the cause of the out of control debt, and just like Obama and almost all Liberals, rather than admitting fault, they ignore the obvious and simply redirect the blame.

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    • Sue Dohnim
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:25pm

      @CMONNOW

      Wrong, Federal loan backing enables redistribution of loan risk to the public, moral hazard for lenders and a bottomless pit of funding.

      This has caused the massive increases in education costs. The intervention of Federal subsidization increases costs as there is no competitive mechanism for schools to be competitive and efficient. They have an endless supply of federal backed loans so they crank up the fees.

      When the student loan bubble bursts, who will be left holding the bag?? The taxpayers..

      This is exactly what will happen to health care.. cost will skyrocket, Then the services will be rationed.

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    • hypnos
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:37pm

      @encidiot, when you have a coherent thought come back to the adult table. @jrook, like many have said when you have unabated access to loan money and the fox guarding the chicken Koop is it any wonder tuition prices are insanely inflated. If your percentages are right about the ratio of tuition payed by state and by the individual. The reversal of the ratio is no surprise. What a great deal for the universities and teachers unions raise tuition at will. Of course the state couldn’t subzidize their portion anymore,there now was a endless pot of money for the student to draw from. Looks like the housing industry took a page from the student loan illusion. We know how that turned out. By the way the fuc$ ing proffesors never step a foot inside the classroom untill junior or senior years. So I think it is more tha just the me generation.

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    • TreeTrimmerJim
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 6:59pm

      The idea with College Tuition Loans is not to lower college costs, its to get more money in the system.. This in the vain of FannieMae, FreddieMac who purpose was to get more money into the housing system. More money in either system has the same effect, increase the price of the product.

      Eventually the college tuition well experience the same problem as housing. In college’s situation they will have huge contracts to professors and no students. Then what happens to the colleges? States will have to kick in more funding in a era of state budget problems.

      Inalienable Rights vs Legal Rights, Constitutional Government vs Progressive Government

      Where do rights come from? King of England and those of similar ilk or our Creator in the form of Natural Law?

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    • Madmadgrandma
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:12pm

      Exactly!…

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    • Elijah123
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:15pm

      90% of my property taxes go to the schools and university health and education system. A percentage of my State and Local TAxes goes to “education” and “training” in departments like the GSA Law Vegas trip, along with local schools and universtiies. Now my helath insurance premiums and Medicare goes toward kids in and out of college, regardless of whether my kids have already paid and graducated from college.
      How many kids and young adults in college are actually taught by PHD’s or are primarily taught by grad students? One of the first reasons colleges boosted tuitions was to “compete” for the highly educated. HA
      How many older and middle income adults are now paying for expensive health insurance, yet havent seen a full fledged doctor for years, because the ususal and normal is now to have nurse practicianers and the lesser educated fulfill the expensive role of doctors for which plans and fees are based?

      I come from three generations of college educated, who worked and paid for their own college, with little choice except local universities, so that room, board could be the cheapest, living at home, with me being the only one who worked a semester to pay for a semester, for a out of state college. My father got the GI Bil and both parents worked, until parents divorced.
      Mr Obama, everything is not “one size fits all”, even to deciding whether you and Michelle both went to eastern IVY League Universities. Some could say you had “unequal opportunities” h

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    • moderateliberal
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:20pm

      Why is no one making the points you are? Because most people are a lot smarter than you and know that you’re full of it.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:28pm

      @SpankDaMonkey
      Ouch!!!!

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:40pm

      encinom

      “As for the value of high education its clear that the inbred, home school drop outs find no value in anything that would challenge their bigotted world view based on the teachings lying preachers and Fox News.”

      Well I guess I better hand my Bachelors & Masters degrees, which I earned, back to the Universities I attended, so my life will fit your delusional world view old boy.

      Hey, why don’t you read the book “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided”?

      http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/22/righteous-mind-jonathan-haidt-review

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    • johnlee
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:17pm

      Wake Up, America, or we are all in the cotton patch.

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    • zoose
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:43pm

      He’s not very presidential is he, as he sounds more like rev Wright every day.

      They plan to attack S-corps and make them pay ss and medicare on dividends.

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    • BreeZee
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 9:51pm

      This man is so low he could walk under a snakes belly. I have never seen anyone like him and the assinine evil practice of attaking individuals that don’t agree with him. What a great example for his daughters.

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    • jzs
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:22pm

      You can see the schizophrenia in the right wing here pretty clearly. On the one hand there is an occasional nod to the idea that to maintain American exceptionalism, we, as a country have to have a new crop of highly educated people every year to maintain our technological advantage over the rest of the world.

      But on the other hand, education is demonized. Universities are liberal bastions that do nothing but politically indoctrinate students, professors are all liberal, elitists and so whatever they teach is wrong, public school teachers are paid too much, teach science rather than the Bible, and have no right to organize and speak as group (unlike, say, the Tea Party).

      Do you ever wonder why you think that most teachers and professors are liberal? Is that really true? If it is, could it be that an education exposes people to different ideas? Is it because people who pursue an advanced education are simply smarter? Or is it a communist plot?

      In any case, here’s a quote from wiki on anti-intellectualism: Dictators, and their dictatorship supporters, use anti-intellectualism to gain popular support, by accusing intellectuals of being a socially detached, politically-dangerous class who question the extant social norms, who dissent from established opinion, and who reject nationalism, hence they are unpatriotic, and thus subversive of the nation. Violent anti-intellectualism is common to the rise and rule of authoritarian political movements.

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    • tradexpertbuysell
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:28pm

      Travon rage vs. Tax Payer rage.
      or
      Short term ultra violent lawless godless rage vs. controlled, patient, law abiding, loving righteous rage.

      Take your pick. Which one wins in the end. Obama has picked all the loosers right along and they are in power reminds me of the old saying. “The taller they stand the farther they fall!” Obama also stoops to conquer… Often! Usually unknowns looking for fame pray that someone like Obama stoops because whenever leaders do that they only make their victims grow bigger in the eyes of the public. Which prooves just how stupid Obama and his ilk actually are!

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    • socialism.rocks
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:47pm

      you are so full of **** if republicans were so serious about education and making it cheaper…they would create colleges at cheaper rates nothing is stoping any conservative in the world from creating a college… a university
      nothing in the world is stopping you if you conservatives think you can do education cheaper better then get off your lazy arses and pull up the bootstraps and do it

      see you blame people for everything but do nothing to change it…..
      you guys are becoming a utter joke to anyone with a iq over 80

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:49pm

      Wow… what else do you expect from the WH? Google? Why not? Google is in bed with the WH so why not use Google to look up something the Marxist POTUS talks about? Shame on you Google and may your stocks drop like a falling star. I’ll never use Google again and I even formatted and reloaded my PC to make sure Google was gone forever from my PC. No Google here….

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    • EL ZORRO
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:03pm

      All Americans citizens of every race, creed, religion and color should reject the Democratic Party and it’s despicable, criminal and vicious marketing of class warfare, war on christians, victimization and racial hatred.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 11:59pm

      JZS says:
      “Do you ever wonder why you think that most teachers and professors are liberal? Is that really true? If it is, could it be that an education exposes people to different ideas? Is it because people who pursue an advanced education are simply smarter?”

      No JZSaul,

      it is because the liberal mindset is automatically drawn to professions that require no physical effort, just a little bit more mental effort, and no moral compass. Billy Ayers would be just one example.

      Once they manage to gain tenure, they are guaranteed obscene amounts of money and benefits for little to no work, with almost zero chance of ever being fired.

      In other words……the perfect job for a lazy a$$m liberal that wants to take a free ride at the expense of the “WORKING PEOPLE”

      “OCCUPY ACADEMIA”

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    • deedunbar
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:11am

      I could of sworn LAST week he said someone PAID and gave him an OPPORTUNITY because he wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth????????????????????????????? THIS ZERO DON’T EVEN REMEMBER HIS OWN BS STORIES ANS LIES FROM WEEK TO WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:13am

      And JZS,

      To follow along with your closing comments, I would have to say that the government schools, and many universities, are doing a bang-up job at turning out “Anti-intellectual” lemmings.

      After all, one definition of the prefix “anti”, is “opposite of”

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:14am

      The “great divider” strikes again. This man is the most divisive President in the history of this great nation, the one he’s currently trying to destroy. Remember when he said he didn’t want a red America, or a blue America, but he wanted to be President of the “United” States of America?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJC5Zw-ggrc

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    • conservatype
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:41am

      Amen amen amen!

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 2:55am

      Why did they go to school if the result was they cant afford their student loans? That is like investing in a business that has no hope of making a profit.

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    • krazykat_randi
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:22am

      Couldn’t agree more. One of the reasons is that the teachers don’t teach anymore – they are now all research fellows. Make a lot more money doing that than teaching those pesky students.

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    • moreoilplease
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:25am

      I feel for student loan debt holders, I am one. However, I did not sign a note for 250,000 or 100,000 or even 50 grand. If you go into that kind of debt and don’t think about actually paying it off and then complain about the debt YOU signed for, you are a highly irresponsible individual and are in need of the life lesson you get. And if you go 50,000 in debt for a degree in Turkish Art and complain you can’t find a job and you want me to subsidize your education in stupidity, you deserve your new career at Mcfastfood. We have an entire generation coming along that knows nothing about responsibility. Many get high valued education without going deeply in debt. It is possible and freaking prudent. I feel bad for doctors that come out of med school with 250,000 in debt, but not that bad. They must be held responsible for their on actions. If first year employment in your chosen field pays 25,000 which is high average and you go more than 50,000 in debt, is this wise? Of course not. You work through college and pay as much as you can as you go and extend the duration of school to prevent choking debt when you get out of school. This should be elementary but clearly it is not.

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    • mauijonny
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:04am

      @ VERYSENIOR: I got rid of my student loans by PAYING THEM OFF. In addition, I went to a state college because that’s all I could afford (even with loans). On the other hand, I am a woman with a degree in science, and have been the subject of educational elitism. I need to also mention here that it’s only been by self-avowed ‘60’s protesters who’re still doing drugs – who can only afford to do so because they‘re getting GOV’T grants to “conduct studies.” Messed up.

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    • mauijonny
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:41am

      @ SOCIALISM: Actually, there are lots of things that keep ANYone from starting a university – there are many hoops you have to jump through to become “acredited.” But, then, there’s this from Liberty University: “As a debt-free and widely supported ministry, Liberty Online offers the lowest tuition of any leading online school, and FEDERAL FINANCIAL AID and scholarships can make Liberty even more affordable…” :/ I’m really trying to understand this…

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    • Belzar
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:43am

      I did not have the GI Bill when I separated from the service until “67” when the bill was passed by congress to cover the Vietnam Vets. I had to make a personal loan from the bank
      @ regular bank rates at that time. I borrowed only the amount that I needed and worked two part time jobs for the rest. I paid the loan off in five years after landing a permanent job.. My son on the other hand had all expenses paid plus worked as a graduate assistant and part time at a retail store and still got a cheap student loan through the student aid office. He is paying the loan off at a very low interest rate and monthly payment that will be paid off in 30 years. It was too easy for him to borrow the money that he really did not need for a yr and a half to earn a MBA.He will pay that loan off. But, just think of students borrowing more money than they need that will never pay it off.

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    • kkopp
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 7:46am

      Rush Limbaugh said this yesterday about the Democrats raising rates and then put in up to a vote right before the elections so they could “get” the Republicans on this issue.

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    • nella111
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 9:56am

      The modern teenager headed for college has been steeped in the concept that if you still have checks left in your checkbook, that means there is still (parents’) money in the bank, and a credit card is an inexhaustible source. They have NO concept of budgets, fiscal responsibility or debt management. Sounds like the only job they will be well-suited for is with the government!

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    • texasbeta
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:03am

      You obviously are an idiot and didn’t put 30 seconds of effort into this post. It is measurably wrong.

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    • shortnsweet
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 3:06pm

      This woman should be held up as a shinning example of fiscal responsibility for next year’s freshman class. Follow her example and they will be better off when the graduate.

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    • oldironsides
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 4:18pm

      Lembrant – I agree, totally, the left would love to dismiss all payments for college loans – like health insurance, free college education will become a right.
      Oldguy – you are correct as well – if the gov. would only give loans of $ 10 – $ 15 grand per yr., with the student responsible for the rest, the price would come crashing down, as fewer kids applied to overpriced schools. But our politicians are the smartest of us all, so they know best I guess.

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    • morenanica
      Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:54am

      you are 100% correct….you are brilliant

      if your parents or you can not afford to pay for college…do not go into the debt trap….go to trade school or start your own business or get any work…but too many young people are falling into a trap…and a false sense of security…believing that a college degree is some kind of guarantee….nowadays…we have many kids with college diplomas as retail sale people or serving tables….niether of which requires a college education …so do not incur huge debt to get brainwashed to leftist propaganda

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on April 28, 2012 at 3:55pm

      Don’t here the SOB criticize any of his leftist college buds for hiking up tuition and fees, HMMMMM?/

      That’s okay; it‘s those mean Republicans that don’t want you to go to college to get a degree in ‘transgender stidies’ and schazam….can’t find a job!!! doing what?

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  • bjornskis
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:27pm

    O blumbler spent his days in private schools

    his grand mother who raise him was a vice or president of a bank

    then again only for him no records of anything locked up forever some where?

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:54pm

      This was so important to Congressman Obama .. he FAILED to VOTE on it TWICE in 2007! The Dems timed this to reset before the election 2012 … What a HYPOCRITE!

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    • TurkE
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:45pm

      Not to take away from your point, but almost everyone who works at a bank is a VP. Banks like to hand out titles instead of raises and the minions eat it up like candy. Sr. VP or Exec. VP might be kind of a big deal, plain VP…not so much.

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    • Texas Chris
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:45pm

      His grandmother was the VP of a bank that handles money for the CIA. Mommy Obama worked for a DIFFERENT bank that was a front group for the CIA, and Daddy Obama was a CIA operative in Africa.

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    • texasbeta
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 11:07am

      Truly, this website has established itself as a haven for the most frighteningly ignorant people within our borders. Pat yourselves on the backs…you define what shames my country.

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  • AJAYW
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:27pm

    obama is a rotten son of a bitch to he bone

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    • JayCee
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:58pm

      That really sums it up!

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    • GrandmaNRichmondTX
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:08pm

      Couldn’t have said it better myself!!!

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    • CatB
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:26pm

      Ditto!

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:41pm

      he is one day closer to Hell and Hell is eternal. Come LORD JESUS come S.Y.G.

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    • skimmer57
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:21pm

      Can you believe that our president actually wants people to be educated and improve their lives. Not only that he wants people to have health care! Yup our President is truly an evil man!

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    • momrules
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:59pm

      Yep.

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    • momrules
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:06pm

      My “yep” was to AJayw.

      Skimmer57………….Your last sentence was the only truth in your comment.

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    • VermontPatriot
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:07pm

      And you sir just smashed the pinata and we all got candy!

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    • moderateliberal
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:25pm

      great point, moron.

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    • Skybottle1
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:34pm

      You said it all and is true, he must go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • RamonPreston
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:10pm

      People should have thought of this BEFORE they ran down and voted for him just because he was black. Evidently inside and out.

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    • scout n ambush
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:18pm

      just saw a video of obama at the holucaust ceremony giving a speech and his left eye is bruised did he get that in south america .

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  • wianno94
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:26pm

    Goodcook says: “Let me see the reason for the huge debt that these kids are stuck with are the resullts of the outrageous salaries being paid to the LIBERAL progressive professors many of whom are now the 1%ers themselves.”

    The reason tuitions are so high is because the government backs all student loans. Since banks and other financial institutions don’t have to worry about being repaid, they will lend out as much money to anybody who wants it(just like they did with mortgages). This creates more demand for space in colleges and universities who then see an opportunity to up their revenues by raising tuitions.

    Did anybody ever notice that house prices in the 40′s-70‘s didn’t increase in value 10-20% a year when banks would only lend to the best borrowers? When the government stepped in to backstop all loans with Fannie and Freddie, BANG, house prices soared.

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    • VastRightWingConspirator
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:08pm

      Same thing happened to car prices the instant the auto companies started making loans on the very vehicles they built and sold.

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  • Iron_Dawg
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:26pm

    My parents made too little money to pay for college and too much for me to qualify for most aide except loans, so I worked my butt off to get scholarships… And I worked during high school to save money for college… And I worked during the summers to make money for college. I now have a PhD in engineering. Over the 12 years it took me to finish BS, MS, and PhD, my parents gave me ~$10,000. I went to a local, in-state college to make sure I could afford it, then went to the “better” school for my graduate degrees. I lived below the poverty line and even qualified for government aide, which I did not take (call it “too much pride”).

    The point to all this is that college is a choice, and so is taking out student loans. Choices have consequences. If you choose to take out a loan, you are responsible for it. Don’t give anyone that power over you.

    Proverbs 23:7 — “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is the SLAVE of the lender.”

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    • lothlorien
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:40pm

      Me too. I worked my way through college, married, 2 kids, rice and beans. Took 5 years instead of 4, but no debt. It can be done if the person wants to do it.

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    • bumfuzeled
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 3:31pm

      My wife and I both worked while in high school, college and even professional training. We both now have our own business with good incomes but made both of our kids begin working while in high school and through college. Both have graduated with not only a good education but a work ethic that has allowed them to start their own businesses despite the tough economy. They initially complained when their friends went on spring break or skiing over the winter but now see the value of working for oneself. Their friends are now straddled with thousands in school debt and minimum wage jobs.

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    • Trav
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:46pm

      I agree, my wife graduated with no debt because she worked while going to school full-time. Went to an in-state school applied for scholarships, worked her tail off and graduated in the top 10%. One can always join the military also, that’s what I did, though I don’t have a degree, I have 80 hours of credit that I didn’t have to pay for. There is absolutely no reason for people to be graduating with tremendous debt. By the way, I also have a great job as a firefighter, no degree! There are many opportunities out there if people would just put a bit of work into it and look.

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  • 1ryanscarbank1
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:24pm

    I am a college student and I work at the school as well and what this president says makes no sense. I see people going to college just to get a paycheck. We deny students entry because all they ask about is “when will my first student come in and can I get what is left over?” I see students that shouldn’t be students. Another school around my area has a 6% graduation rate, ours is 49%, when I started back in April 2009 it was 74%. Look how may defaulted student loans there are, look at how many fail because they don’t want to try, but they want free money. This is the same thing that is happening to public schools. We dumb down the system for everyone else because these students do not have any moral family values, they have to many people that do not speak English, so all the ones that do enjoy learning can not get ahead or be challenged because of this. My daughter goes to a school that is made up of a diverse group, I had so much trouble this year because of a student that was two years too old for the class and this student would hit, bite, and throw chairs at the teachers and students, she pushed my daughter down and spit on her on her. The school didn’t send any papers home. I didn’t even get a letter saying they had a breakout of lice, my daughter having long hair got it three times. The shampoo is not cheap. This is the world the liberals have made for us and it is time for change. I say bring back paddling in school.

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    • ChuckSammich
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:38pm

      “what this president says makes sense.” WTF were you reading or listening to to get that? The One is above recriminations like show us your transcripts, or where are your legal papers from skrool, and how much of a loan and which fed program did you and Moochie use?

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 1:47pm

      What part of NO in “what this president says makes —>no<— sense" you don't understand, Chuck?

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  • PoliticallyRightUs.Com
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:23pm

    Expose, Expose, Expose!!!

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:37pm

      You must be talking about Mitt’s Swiss bank accounts, his offshore investment portfolio and other holdings that he doesn’t want to see the light of day. Mitt must believe in socialism, he certainly invests in countries that do.

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  • sodacrackers2
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:22pm

    Somehow I don’t believe that either of the Obamas ever took out a loan or had the need to. Someone paid for his education, if you can call it that.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:28pm

      Back in his day, there was plenty of money available for foreign students to come to America and get a free education. That‘s why we can’t see his college records.

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    • Rohawk
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 4:39pm

      I went to community college paying as I went until I dropped out realizing it was silly to take classes not knowing what I want to do with my life. We wouldn‘t have people in six figure debt with degrees they can’t use and complaining its not fair if instead of taking classes they liked they took classes that gave them (dare I say it) corporate value.

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    • RebelPatriot
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 12:18am

      It is safe to say that King Hussein was ushered into his college education with help from Soros and others in order to be placed into the White House to carry out the destruction of the Republic. After the Republic is dissolved and we are on the verge of complete anarchy the false prophet will make himself known. He will have all the answers and will calm the masses, but he will be the Anti Christ and the Christians will suffer under his reign.

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  • KARP4CY
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:22pm

    To the Entitled-in-Training: no one will argue if you decide you need transportation, only that you opt for a new Bentley when a used Accord would get you from point A to point B.

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    • lbyrd26
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:35pm

      I don’t even care if they opt for the new Bentley. I’m just tired of them expecting me to pay for it! How many of these people are graduating in degrees that won’t get them jobs, like “Liberal Arts”? If they are going to make decisions that are doomming them to failure and I had no say in that, why do I jhave to pay for their mistakes. Get a job, like jI had to. Pay your own way, like I had to and you will find that those mistaken decisions will come fewer and farther between. You will also appreciate your education far more and make far more wise decisions through life to protect it!

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  • Just in time
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:20pm

    Knowledge is power, ignorance is a weakness. An education does not equal money. Knowledge gives you a leg up. So get out and educate yourself, not create debt.

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  • biohazard23
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:19pm

    “You didn’t do it lightly. You don’t like debt.”

    No one likes debt except Dear Leader.

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  • Sue Dohnim
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:18pm

    “Dr. Drew describes Obama’s total dedication to Communist revolution in America, beginning with his youthful indoctrination in Hawaii by the well-known member of the Communist Party of America (CPUSA) Frank Marshall Davis, and continuing through his college years, as personally witnessed by Dr. Drew based on his close personal contact with Obama at Occidental College.
    Dr Drew has no doubt that Obama has always been a Communist and remains a fervent Communist today. According to Dr. Drew, Obama is totally committed to carrying out a revolution in America which will destroy the American system of rights and freedoms enshrined in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in order to bring about a “redistribution of wealth” and the forcible imposition of “social justice” as envisioned by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, and Mao Tse-tung.”

    Audio interview
    http://archive.org/details/BarackObamasTotalDedicationToMarxism-OccidentalsDr.JohnDrew

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  • JEANNIEMAC
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:18pm

    Now that he has brought up the subject, let Obama show us the records of his college loans. Let him prove to us that he suffered along with other students.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:35pm

      His records will be revealed when donkeys fly…………..
      OMG 2012

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    • TruthPolice60
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:38pm

      Bravo ! Time for the Replublicans to demand that Obama show his his college loan info. How much, how many and for what? Did he get any loans designated for foreign students?

      He tried to get Romney for letting his dog ride on the car roof and that came back to bite him (couldn’t resist) when it was revealed that Barry had eaten some dog himself. Another contrived issue like birth control. This contrived student loan issue can go the same way if handled properly.

      Romney needs to put out his college transcripts and challenge Barry to put his out too. Surely, the smartest man in the world would not be embarrassed to let his transcripts out. When he fails to do so, he needs to be badgered/shamed/ridiculed DAILY until he does. C’mon Republicans. Start taking it to them instead of waiting for them to take it to you !

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  • wianno94
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:18pm

    First, I‘m guessing that Representative Fox was saying that student loan aren’t free money, and you can pursue happiness but you can’t pursue it for free or expect happiness to be dumped in your lap. At least be a little thankful to be living in a country where you can actually have the opportunity for a higher education.

    Second, if the Iraq war wasn’t paid for and caused the deficit to increase, now the Iraq war is over, how come the deficit is still increasing?

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  • GoodCook
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:17pm

    Let me see the reason for the huge debt that these kids are stuck with are the resullts of the outrageous salaries being paid to the LIBERAL progressive professors many of whom are now the 1%ers themselves. They teach irrelevant dribble that has no use in the real world except to promote their communist ideology. If this were a restuarant they would be serving White Castles at LeCirque prices with all respect to White Castle.

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  • HKS
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:15pm

    Th G-man want’s you so deep in debt right out of the gate that you are owned lock stock and barrel for the rest of your life. It’s the old company store game, not new but a different boss doing it.

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  • barber2
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:14pm

    The man knows how to divide and conquer. Comes from his Alinsky community organizer training. The man is a born again Community Organizer using his skills in the White House to get reelected . . Helping the students to “ blame” someone for their problems. That is what this man is a master at ! Blame. Organizing. Agitating. Dividing. A much different man than the nice “ hope and change ” candidate of 2008.

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    • JRook
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:27pm

      It is interesting to note that the baby boomers who attended college in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in most states paid a very small percentage of the cost of their college education. Let’s take Ohio for instance. During those decades the state of Ohio covered 70% of the cost of instate universities and colleges. So the student and their families only had to cover 30%. Today the state of Ohio pays 17% of the cost of instate universities and colleges.. So for those who have trouble following the math. Our grandparents and parents paid higher taxes so that education would be available to all. A great deal of baby boomers, many of who are in Congress, benefited from that investment in their future. Of course now that they are in line to make the same investment, they cut taxes and dramatically reduce support for education (70 to 17%). And their defense is that they have saved money to put their own kids through college and the hell with the other kids. How many of them would have been able to attend if their grandparents had taken that position. I attribute it to the ME generation, as it is all about them. They believe they are better Americans, harder workers, better Christians, etc. What they are is bad citizens who no longer feel a need to invest in the community at large.

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    • barber2
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:09pm

      JR: More of the VoxObama crapola . Many of us who attended state schools during those periods just lived with fewer expectations: lived at home ; took the bus; shared our parents’ typewriters. lived within our means, did not live on credit cards, suffered the horrors of the grading curve, lean red that failure is part of life, worked jobs, and did not expect the government to give us everything. We did not expect our parents to give us everything. And we did not take out loans that we did not expect to repay . And the loans we did take out, we DID repay. So , JR , cut the usual OBAMA DIVISIVE rhetoric which is one of the worst things this sad excuse for a president and his economically insane party have inflicted upon this country.

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    • Free2speakRN
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:24pm

      “I attribute it to the ME generation, as it is all about them.”
      Jrook?

      Hey, Mr. Know-It-All! Who in hell do you think you are?! Shooting off your mouth like a fool. I don’t need your warped vision of who you think you are, and more so, who you ‘think’ I am. “The ME generation?” If there is a Me generation in this country, it’s your spoiled ass. I worked nearly every day of my life. Sixty hour weeks ‘After’ a heart attack, triple bypass, and more. Raised three kids on my own for years because their dear mother died an early death from cancer… a long death. The heart kept getting worse, and I had to keep going simply because I loved my kids. And now, I gotta read your sophomore-minded ass saying I’m all about Me. I did what I could for them, most important, they know they’re loved. You don’t think people like me worry about money. You’re ready to give up ‘Freedom’ for everybody in this whole country for your 99% attitude. Yeah there are problems. The biggest ones are from this anarchist, social, radical attitude you ‘bought’ from a small portion of the people my age. They were, and are, the ‘It’s all about Me mentality.’ I was there. I saw it. And you bought it. Freedom is Priceless, it takes Blood. You don’t know jack, Jack. ENTITLEMENT? Life is about love, hard work, and charity. And you’re ready to give it up for a dime. Don’t be judging me, kid. Me and mine work. I love freedom. And there are a lot better Christians than

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    • Free2speakRN
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 8:28pm

      me.

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    • Chesterdog
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 10:01pm

      Could not have said that better! You hit the nail on the head Barber2. My hope is that he doesn’t lie his way back into the white house in november.

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    • Free2speakRN
      Posted on April 26, 2012 at 1:03pm

      Friends, I just want to apologize for my rhetoric last night on this issue. I do fail to reach my Catholic Principles that are high. Many people are afraid to have high principles because they are afraid of not being able to always achieve them. Hypocrisy always involves a ‘lie’. Human weakness and being on your best behavior, are ‘not’ hypocrisy. Pretending to be something that someone is ‘not‘, ‘is’ a lie, and is hypocritical. I will continue to try. I will fail, and try again, and again. That aside, know these people like ‘jrook’ for what they are. Lost. Let’s not lose our country of freedom, because of them. Ignoring my rhetoric, my message is clear. Do you want these people running your lives?!

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:14pm

    He will stoop to any level to get votes. He is so unAmerican. Cause havoc, encourage division, racism, economic failure, entitlements, etc. Thats our President.

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  • Just in time
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:13pm

    What is the difference between him doing this and someone yelling “fire” in a crowded theater?

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    • Madmilo
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 2:25pm

      Whats the difference between him and Saddam Hussein?

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:13pm

    Obama’s war on women. Conservative women are on his enemy “hit list”.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:38pm

      Google Limosine Lizzie Warren
      She got interest FREE loans from Haaarrrvarrrd.
      Hypocritical Obummer!!!
      OMG 2012

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  • ChuckSammich
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:11pm

    The Fed owns these loans now, why not keep on keeping on in the same sky rocketing direction. What a POS we have as a CNC. Wow. Can we now google his college transcripts?

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    • ChildOfTheKing
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:23pm

      I went to college AND PAID FOR IT MYSELF, 1 course at a time, SO ALL OF YOU ARE TOTAL FOOLS. Yes, it took twice as long, but I did it, worked, raised kids and paid my bills. Yes, I had a Husband that helped pay the bills, but it can be done, IF YOU REALLY WANT IT BAD ENOUGH.

      I think THAT IS THE ONLY WAY to get an education – NO HANDOUTS, NOT STUDENT LOANS, NO GI BILL, NOTHING. Either pay for it yourself, get a family member to help you or FIND SOMETHING ELSE, like a local tech college who doesn’t charge as much.

      These free handouts is what has RUINED THIS COUNTRY. You are all total fools!

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  • bassist237
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:10pm

    Yeah, you get a job and start paying your loans as you go through college.. it’s what I had to do, and I still have debt and make my payments on time – didn’t expect someone to “do it for me”. Guess that’s the difference in thinking, call it logical if you must. Don‘t be a douche and complain when you didn’t do a damn thing through college but drink beer and “study”. Get a job, you jackwagons.

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:09pm

    Just because her name is Foxx. She makes a lot of sense though. Still, the blame should be pointed at the tenured professor bloated colleges and universities that charge such outrageous fees. Not the institutions making the loans.

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    • Sgt Lamb
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 7:21pm

      virginia Foxx reprsents my district she is plain spoken which in soundbites comes across as less than artticulate Obama did his campaign speech at CNC chapel Hill yesterday a liberal bastion here in NC to a crew of young mushheads who wouldn’t know or care that the rate hike was fosted on them by the dems wonder how Obama voted on IT?

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  • lukerw
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:08pm

    Choices of taking on Financial Burden… are Not about being Lazy… but about a Reasoning of Expectations against Risk!

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  • Joe Bonham
    Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:07pm

    I have the GI Bill. And I feel for my peers to my left and right I see struggling to just make ends meet while going to school.

    It seems like the GOP only wants the elite of the country to have higher education and a chance at the “social mobility” conservatives are always rambling about.

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:13pm

      I have the same GI Bill and being retired from the Army it is helping my son through college. It is not the Republicans wanting only the elite to attend college. Especially since the elite consider themselves the liberals of the world today. It is the colleges and universities wanting an arm and a leg from every family member for just one child to attend a college. It would make more sense to keep the fees down rather than blame everybody else for the high costs. If you want to blame anybody, take a deep strong look into the institutions of higher learning themselves.

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    • Mannax
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:13pm

      Try again. It is the LIBERAL elite of both parties that want that. If you are not part of their little clique then you do not get to get ahead. This has nothing to do with democrats or republicans but everything to do with liberals and conservatives. The government should not be giving student loans at all. They are the reason that the costs are going up so much because the schools know that they are going to get the money no matter what they charge.

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:16pm

      Joe Bonham – you paid a price for your GI Bill, you earned it. Can you see the difference? Thank you for your service.

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    • PA2AK
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:19pm

      He twisted her “quote” just a bit. Either way, you can’t argue D or R for blame on the education prices. Both have helped and/or sat idley by while the Federal Gov’t pushed their way into education. I have plenty of debt. I still don’t blame it on the rising prices. I knew how much it was prior to signing the contract required of me to borrow said loans (that is the point that Foxx seemed to be getting at). The real gripe is the gov’t involvement and social engineering that says the only way to succeed or have value in life is going to college…and…the only way to run an education system properly is to layer in gov’t requirements to make things “fair” and “efficient.” Lots of people shouldn’t be going to college, lots shouldn’t be required to finish 12 years of education. Some people aren’t geared for it…just like I’m not geared for working on the engine of my vehicle or various other skills needed in an economy. Education is important. Leaving it up to the individual to determine the level and direction of his/her education is paramount.

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    • Sue Dohnim
      Posted on April 25, 2012 at 12:35pm

      The reason education is so expensive is due to Government intervention. When the Government subsidizes the market gets distorted, if education were a “free market” then competition would drive down the cost. The education system operates in a false economy of Government subsidies or better said the redistribution of wealth from society to the education system, there is no accountability and the costs rise dramatically. Gov causes the high price then pretends to have the solution.. more subsidies. more debt, more control.

      Welcome to dialectics… and Marxist deception

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