Student to Rand Paul: I don’t want government to leave me alone | WashingtonExaminer.com.
During the Q&A session after Sen. Rand Paul’s speech Wednesday at Howard University, one student explained that he was not a fan of his view of government.
“You say you want to provide a government that leaves us alone; quite frankly, I don’t want that,” the student said. “I want a government that is going to help me.”
The student insisted that he wanted assistance for his college education and asked if Rand Paul supported a culture change within the nation.
Gag me.
I don’t agree with one word the student said, and I kind of disagree with Rand Paul. He said that he doesn’t necessarily disagree with gov’t student loans. I do. I used to not mind the idea, because I assumed the gov’t’s influence on college education was benign. Then I learned it isn’t. Since the gov’t has much more financial resources than private banks, it’s been flooding the college market with students, which has been driving up tuition. Over many years gov’t has been gradually dictating to universities what they should teach, using student funding as the “carrot” to get them to change, and what we’ve gotten as a result is in many cases college graduates who can’t think for themselves, and who have no idea what this country is about. It sounded like Paul was talking purely from the POV of a fiscal conservative, not someone who wants to limit gov’t to the Constitution’s enumerated powers. I’d suggest he have a conversation with the people at Hillsdale College re. their experience with gov’t financing of student tuition.
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Geez, I just replied on my own blog and it was lost!
I’m going to try again. I believe I had put a relatively common word in my spam filter and my attempted posts had been caught by it.
It seems to me at the very best, student loans are a good idea gone bad. College tuition has an inflation rate, for lack of a better term, that is twice that of healthcare costs. There is simply no way a rational person could deny that they have paid a big part in the increased costs.
I haven’t heard about the loans being used as leverage to influence a school’s curriculum but I’m certainly not surprised by the concept.
And of course we have the student debt bubble. In regards to that debt, and many others, we have the words of Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds…
Something that can’t go on forever, won’t. Debts that can’t be repaid, won’t be. Promises that can’t be kept, won’t be. Make your plans accordingly.