Obama’s Deficient Student Loan Plan
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 23rd, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Obama’s Deficient Student Loan Plan
Steve Chapman, RealClearPolitics
The government normally doesn’t care whether you or I accumulate large bills for home improvement, a new car or exotic vacations. But Barack Obama feels no hesitation in concluding that the cost of higher education has placed “too big a debt load on too many young people.” Therefore, something must be done. The problem with Obama’s analysis is defining “too big.” Compared to what? Most of these young people, often in conjunction with their parents, have voluntarily shouldered student loans to pursue their studies. If they thought the burden was too heavy, they didn’t have to take it on. They…
LA Mayor Exemplifies America’s Decline
Dennis Prager, RealClearPolitics
Last week, during the official celebration of the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup, the mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, told a jammed Staples Center that “there are two long-standing rules for politicians . … They say never, ever be pictured with a drink in your hand and never swear. But this is a big f—–g day,” he said, holding up a bottle of Bud Light. You read that right. In front of 18,000 people at Staples and hundreds of thousands of others watching on television — many of them, of course, children — the mayor of the second-largest city in America held up a beer…
The Enigmatic War
Richard Cohen, RealClearPolitics
This is a splendid time to remember the First World War. It started 100 years ago this month with the June 28 shooting of the Austrian archduke and his wife. By the end of the summer, much of Europe was engaged in a war that lasted about four years, toppled four empires, precipitated the communist revolution, created by fiat the modern Middle East, recognized Zionism, made the U.S. a world power and cost the lives of about 10 million fighting men. Historians are still trying to figure out what happened. There are theories galore — and an equal amount of finger-pointing. Germany was to blame,…
