Urgent: Higher Ed Bill up for Reauthorization
If you’re a college student, recent graduate, or you know someone who’s struggling to pay for college, then you should watch out for the Heighter Education Act reauthorization bill, H.R. 609, currently up for consideration in the House Education Committee. If passed, H.R. 609 would freeze the maximum grant aid awarded to current college students as well as interest rates on loans used to pay for higher education. As we all know, the average expense of college increases by a significant percentage every year. So if the government decides to freeze aid, it’ll be impossible for working families to close the gap without going deeper into debt. Check out this website sponsored by the Student Aid Action PIRG, especially the link to the top ten ways that H.R. 609 would make college less affordable. Also, don’t forget to call or email your representatives and urge them to say no to reduced funding for higher education.
posted by Anonymous at 11:35 AM
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Yes, that's right, we should just line up at the govt. trough like every other special interest. I'd rather have freedom than a college loan, thanks anyway.
Ever notice that being a rapist doesn't disqualify you from getting a college loan but smoking a little weed or not signing up for the draft does? When you allow yourself to be dependent on govt. programs, they can then use those funds to make you their slave. College loan fund witholding isn't about punishing bad people, because if it were, rapists wouldn't be allowed. It's about government controlling you.
wait, this bill freezes interest on student loans, and thats a bad thing? My wife's loans just went up to to the interest rate hike, I'd love to have a freeze on interest rates for her student loans.
Noid, you're crazy. Don't change the terms of the debate. Everyone deserves access to education that will give them a leg up. This is just another example of Congress saying they are acting on behalf of the people but then erecting barriers to progress behind closed doors.
Sean:
I think the post misspoke-the bill will actually CUT funding for studnet loans and HIKE interest rates, while freezing student aid funding.
This bill is very bad for students.
Noid-you're great! Your libertarian diatribes are colored with just a touch of blithering foolishness. Thanks for making your ideas so easy to dismiss!
At least you're not calling me a conservative like Erik does :-)
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Noid, you're crazy. Don't change the terms of the debate. Everyone deserves access to education that will give them a leg up. This is just another example of Congress saying they are acting on behalf of the people but then erecting barriers to progress behind closed doors.
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If you want to defend congress subsidizing college loans you have to also embrace the effects of corruption that will inevitably result as well as the social control congress can enforce doing so. I have the same problems with Bush's vague plans for privatization of social security. Why is it that people like you can recognize the opportunities for corruption with Bush style privatization but not with student loan subsidies?
Calm down boys....
Quick question: Im going to be a juinior in high school, how would this bill affect me? And if it doesn't, could there be a possibility that other bills would follow that would eventually affecting me?
K.
To the Junior:
If you plan on recieving financial aid to help you afford college. This bill will increase the costs of your student loans by raising the interest rates you'll pay in a number of ways. In addition it does nothing to increase federal student aid that makes college more affordable and cheaper for you. Ultimately this bill will exacerbate the problem of rising college cost that students are currently facing.
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An ever-growing share of the federal budget today consists of automatic transfers from working Americans to retirees. Moreover, the costs of the big entitlements for the elderly -- Social Security and Medicare -- are growing at rates that will eventually bankrupt them and that could leave little to pay for everything else government does. We can't just spend our way out of the problem; we must find a way to contain future costs. The federal government already spends seven times as much on the elderly as it does on children. To allow that ratio to grow even more imbalanced would be grossly unfair to today's workers and future generations.
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