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The Coming College Education Bubble
December 17, 2010 in Campaign 2008, Campaign 2010, Campaign 2012, Capitalism, Economy, Family values, Health care reform, immigration reform, Politics, socialism, Uncategorized | Tags: Barack Obama, College education, Forbes, Pell Grants, Sallie Mae, student loans | Leave a comment
“Numerous authors have minutely detailed the dangers to college consumers: the price tag is too high; the lending is too lax; the product is too low-quality; the socialization process is too coarsening; the parents are kept too much in the dark; the earning advantages are too aggressively touted; the alternatives are too cheap.”
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9 Indicted for Accessing Obama Student Loan Records
May 12, 2010 in Campaign 2008, Campaign 2010, Campaign 2012, Family values, Politics, Uncategorized | Tags: Barack Obama, Columbia University, Dept. of Education, Obama Student loans, Occidental College, student loans | 3 comments
Nine people were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of accessing President Barack Obama’s student loan records while they were employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney’s office said a grand jury returned the indictments in U.S. District Court in Davenport.
All nine are charged with exceeding authorized computer access. They are accused of gaining access to a computer at a Coralville office where they worked between July 2007 and March 2009, and accessing Obama’s student loan records while he was either a candidate for president, president-elect or president.
U.S. attorney spokesman Mike Bladel referred questions to online copies of the indictments.
Federal Student Loan Takeover May Be added to…………..ObamaCare
March 11, 2010 in Campaign 2008, Campaign 2010, Campaign 2012, Capitalism, Economy, Family values, Health care reform, Politics, Uncategorized | Tags: Barack Obama, Kent Conrad, ObamaCare, Pell Grants, student loans | 2 comments
Both proposals, stuck in Congress for nearly a year, are gaining new momentum as Democrats contemplate facing voters in November without having delivered on any of Obama’s major policy objectives.
Key Senate Democrats initially balked at combining the health-reform bill with a measure that overhauls the nation’s student-loan program, but on Thursday they had warmed to the idea.
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) had been one of the chief opponents because he feared the education proposal — which would free up billions in federal subsidies to private lenders as it increases funds for Pell Grants — would provoke procedural challenges from Republicans. But Conrad said the Senate parliamentarian suggested in a preliminary ruling that combining the bills could work, provided that the right balance on cost was found. “I’d say yes, we’re leaning toward it,” Conrad said.
see article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031103144.html?hpid=topnews
