BARREL OF MONKEYS: "GENESIS" in Reverse


I consider myself a Democrat. Been called a Socialist. Definitely a bleeding heart liberal.


As a child from a traditional southern family, playing Barrel of Monkeys on the floor, church every Sunday, doing well in public school, learning a trade; in every sense privileged .........


Comfortable in middle age, an avid news reader, on learning the tragic story of a full grown chimpanzee destroying the face of a woman who offered a toy, only trying to help it's owner coax her surrogate child back into his cage......


Today being confrontational, ribald, offensive, restless, rebellious.......


How did I get here from there?


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Saturday, September 11, 2010

OBAMA'S MIILLENNIAL EDUCATION SCHEME...?

Obama’s Millennial Education Scheme
The GOP has an opportunity here to talk to young people about the nobility of public service but also the danger of being a slave to government. The best thing government can do for Millennials is to give them the opportunity to know the satisfaction of being your own boss, controlling your own destiny, and giving back to the community in the way that’s best for you.
The above paragraph was taken from a:
U.S. NEWS COMMENTARY By Mary Kate Cary
as her solution to problems created from a bill passed by none other than.....(let me take a wild guess)...OBAMA himself. 

Here it is:

The administration inserted little-noticed language into the reconciliation bill for healthcare reform. Here’s the play: If you graduate from college with student loans and work for a public service organization, and make 120 monthly student loan payments while working at that job, any unpaid loan balance after that will be forgiven by the federal government. According to the Department of Education, public service organizations can be “any federal, state, or local government organization or agency and most charitable non-profit organizations,” including the military, law enforcement, and colleges and universities. In the same presidential penstroke, the administration essentially took over Sallie Mae by barring future government guarantees of most private student loans. The federal government now runs the student loan business at an estimated cost of $100 billion per year. Not only have they eliminated any competition from banks, they’ve removed any incentive for colleges to keep tuition costs down because taxpayers will foot the bills.

AND.....
IT'S ALL OBAMA'S FAULT!

"JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!"
The ink hasn't even dried yet!

Let me see if I got this right: 

  • We just baled out Wall Street and Banks Too Big To Fail which happened on Bush watch.
  • We had the brightest of our nation students opting for careers in the Financial sector; huge bonuses being the big draw, up until the recession.
  • Not only could many not already afford higher education before the recession; even more are now unlikely to have jobs or even parents with jobs financially able to help them through college.
  • Paying back the government through public service in order to have part of an education loan forgiven........ as a choice is a bad thing?
  • Being allowed a choice to give back to the community......  is a good thing?


Exactly...who's best interest... this chick looking after?  Sounds like we're back where we started....before the ink left the pen!




OBAMA






might as well have signed using a can of spray paint!

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