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SomeGuyInEagan

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19. We need to de-privatized stident loans.

Reply to Nay (Reply #13)

Fri Feb 21, 2014, 10:47 PM

Feb 2014

IF we are going to keep this ridiculous system in place.

What they really need to do is get the state portion of subsidies for higher ed back to 1970s levels - 60 to 70 percent of a student's cost at a public school was covered by state money, the taxpayers. Which would take the burden off the individual students.

We ALL benefit when from an educated population. The public k-12 and higher ed systems of the '40s through the '70s was the basis so many great advances for our society in so many areas. We've been going backward since then.

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"They Did Everything We Told Them To Do" Elizabeth Warren [View all] applegrove Feb 2014 OP

K&R Warren knows where it's at. Whisp Feb 2014 #1

problem began when political prostitutes privatized the loan industry instead of it being msongs Feb 2014 #2

Would you please cross post this in the Elizabeth Warren group? Autumn Feb 2014 #3

K and R (nt) bigwillq Feb 2014 #4

It's a start. But what's really needed are lower tuitions. reformist2 Feb 2014 #5

And very low interest student loans. nm rhett o rick Feb 2014 #6

Young people need to get angry - they're being screwed in a hundred different ways... polichick Feb 2014 #7

Is there anything that Warren stands for Curmudgeoness Feb 2014 #8

Re-finance!?!?! DeSwiss Feb 2014 #9

+100000. There would be such a huge benefit of a bailout. riderinthestorm Feb 2014 #11

Unfortunately, a bailout for students will go straight to the lenders, Nay Feb 2014 #13

The lenders won't lose either way..... DeSwiss Feb 2014 #17

The Paradigm shift would need to be complete campaign finance reform, including publicly Dustlawyer Feb 2014 #21

We need to de-privatized stident loans. SomeGuyInEagan Feb 2014 #19

There you go...that is the answer. zeemike Feb 2014 #14

Nope, not unless we make education free for everyone. nt Demo_Chris Feb 2014 #23

Good For HER...Don't let anyone tell you she's Old and Out of Touch! KoKo Feb 2014 #10

K&R. It's the least we can do. Overseas Feb 2014 #12

Yes Maam Elizabeth....Hey, America Can Throw A few Bucks toward the federal bkanderson76 Feb 2014 #15

Trickle Drown, Bay-bee! blkmusclmachine Feb 2014 #16

Good grades and computers in kindergarten cannot compete pragmatic_dem Feb 2014 #18

Sen. Warren Joins Colleagues to Address College Affordability ProSense Feb 2014 #20

Thanks, I had not seen this. Why not an amnesty like they gave the offshore tax evaders? freshwest Feb 2014 #22

^ Wilms Feb 2014 #24