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Elizabeth Warren

East Coast Pirate

(775 posts)

4. Because you're not a student.

Reply to customerserviceguy (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 18, 2013, 06:54 AM

Jul 2013

Saddling students with massive debt while our government gives billions of dollars of our money to the military industrial complex which funds their campaigns is morally wrong. We need educated Americans so we can compete with the rest of the world. But I don't expect a libertarian to understand that. Drown it in a bathtub, right?

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Elizabeth Warren: Student Loan Profits 'Morally Wrong' [View all] East Coast Pirate Jul 2013 OP

So, why is government getting a return on money it borrows "immoral"? customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #1

Educating young people will presumably result in a better life for them, geckosfeet Jul 2013 #2

If everyone who paid the higher education industry customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #5

I agree as a practical matter, but disagree in principle. geckosfeet Jul 2013 #7

Why is it a "business" loan? djean111 Jul 2013 #3

Other countries customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #6

Because you're not a student. East Coast Pirate Jul 2013 #4

I don't like military waste customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #8

Then concentrate your dislike on the banks that borrow from the government at 0% and pay almost djean111 Jul 2013 #9

I dislike them both customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #10

I wish I could believe that, I truly truly do. djean111 Jul 2013 #11

It's the only thing I can think of customerserviceguy Jul 2013 #12