they watched their families lose their homes after Bush crashed the world economy.
why would they vote for the republicans?
so it's bush's fault they couldnt pay for their loans?
Yes.
Bush fvcked up this economy so bad with the tax cuts and deregulation that created that huge housing bubble and jobs getting outsourced.
This led to state governments getting less revenue.
This led universities to raise tuition and cut scholarships and put it on the students. Then you have for profit universities who are suppose to teach for a trade yet give student no practical experience to land a good job and only create huge student loan debt that keeps accruing interest and make payments late into retirement.
So now you have kids who were made to go into manfacturing jobs and other trade that have been shipped overseas. So now they almost all go to some post secondary education and get training for jobs that aren't going to get them paid well enough to support themselves or a family, now have huge debt and we have a consumption base economy that is horrible because we don't create anything.
We gave the rich lower taxes and they went on to destroy our economy in the process. They had their chance and these "smart people" really were quite stupid and don't deserve the praise they get from the right. Its time to make them start investing in America instead of India with no strings attached.
Bush merely continued the housing policies put in place by the Clinton administration although he warned the Congress a number of times, starting in 2003 that Freddie Mac and Fannie May were in trouble. Frank and Dodd assured him and the American people that they were OK. They weren't!
The people saddled with student loans in their retirement is due to the fact that they took out the loans for their college kids, not for themselves. You didn't know that did you? YUK!
The education problem is real, but it sure as hell wasn't caused by Bush. College staff and educators are 90% liberals, and unchecked spending on new sports stadiums, Professors salaries and other nice to have buildings and programs that are not essential to learning add to the high cost of tuition. The only thing some of the majors offered in some Universities are good for is teaching that subject at the University.
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