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A proposal that's up for grabs in the Senate would prohibit the private sector from making any education loans whatsoever, removing this area of the market from private control. But sixty votes are needed in the Senate to allow this proposal to pass, and Harry Reid doesn't have them.
So Reid and Obama are considering using reconciliation to pass the education bill as well as the health care bill.
There's something of a case to be made financially for the government take-over of private educational loans, if you use the warped parameters set by Democratic accounting standards. Since...
So Reid and Obama are considering using reconciliation to pass the education bill as well as the health care bill.
There's something of a case to be made financially for the government take-over of private educational loans, if you use the warped parameters set by Democratic accounting standards. Since...
Let's Just Use Reconciliation For Everything!
The problem you guys have is that you think that a piece of paper really means something.
The delusion people have is that because you write something on a bit of paper, it becomes enshrined somehow.
There are no "rights". Anyone who thinks that "rights" exist should look up "Japanese Americans- 1942" on Wiki. That's how fast rights can vanish, to thunderous applause.
What we have is privilages, agreed to by the majority, or at the very least, tolerated.
We will get health care, because private insurance, by the ADMISSION of the insurance industry, is unsustainable. You guys complain that government is taking over, guess what, they have been for decades. In 1990, Government...