Red Dawn
Senior Member
As libertarian as I am, I agree with student loans on their own merit. They generate revenue, and in fact, PROFIT. They serve to offer people an education they otherwise may never have been able to afford, and they add skilled workers to the labor pool. They are not "hand-outs". They get paid back, PLUS interest. If anything were worth the government INVESTING money in, it's higher education.
Sound off. Who out of the conservatives here agrees with them, who disagrees, and WHY?
This is great!
I can't tell you how many conservatives I'm chatted to on message boards who've proclaimed the values of self sufficiency, pulling one's self up by one's own boot straps, and getting goverment "out of the way" of all areas of our lives except national defense and courts.
And yet many of them took taxpayer guaranteed and subsized student loans, and went to taxpayer funded public universities!
The irony is thick enough to cut with a knife!