Mupainurpleasure
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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr
"Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business"
Yeah. That's certainly "out of touch" (If you're a Lefty Apologist and feel the need for spin). Actually, it's not like he said: "You should be able to borrow ..." or "Don't your parents have $20,000 to lend you?" but, that isn't what was said.
Unfortunately, what's happening here is a the lefties are a little scared that the current failure-in-chief's re-election is not quite the slam-dunk they had hoped it would be. He's had three years to do what he promised to do and while he has managed to keep some of his campaign promises, they've come much more slowly than the junior senator from Illinois thought they would.
Since, the lefties can't point to all of President Obama's successes, they need to point to any imagined short-comings of his opponent. They - like their icon - are running scared. If they weren't, this story wouldn't need to be spun to the point where the title of the story is almost the antithesis of the actual quote.
Peace and comfort,
Michael
actually you have no idea where he stands because he cartwheeled this week flip.,...flop
feb he flipped quote:
The high school senior who stood up at Mitt Romney’s town hall meeting here today was worried about how he and his family would pay for college, and wanted to hear what the candidate would do about rising college costs if elected. He didn’t realize that Mr. Romney was about to use him to demonstrate his fiscal conservatism to the crowd.
The answer: nothing.
Mr. Romney was perfectly polite to the student. He didn’t talk about the dangers of liberal indoctrination on college campuses, as Rick Santorum might have. But his warning was clear: shop around and get a good price, because you’re on your own.
“It would be popular for me to stand up and say I’m going to give you government money to pay for your college, but I’m not going to promise that,” he said, to sustained applause from the crowd at a high-tech metals assembly factory here. “Don’t just go to one that has the highest price. Go to one that has a little lower price where you can get a good education. And hopefully you’ll find that. And don’t expect the government to forgive the debt that you take on.”
There wasn’t a word about the variety of government loan programs, which have made it possible for millions of students to get college degrees. There wasn’t a word urging colleges to hold down tuition increases, as President Obama has been doing, or a suggestion that the student consider a work-study program.
And there wasn’t a word about Pell Grants, in case the student’s family had a low enough income to qualify. That may be because Mr. Romney supports the House Republican budget, which would cut Pell Grants by 25 percent or more at a time when they are needed more than ever.
Instead, the advice was pretty brutal: if you can’t afford college, look around for a scholarship (good luck with that), try to graduate in less than four years, or join the military if you want a free education.
That’s the face of modern Republican austerity. Don’t talk about the value of higher education to the country’s economic future, and don’t bother to think about ways to make it more accessible to strapped families. Tell students not to take on more debt than they can afford, wish them well, and move
this week he floppedquote:
In recent days, Romney has come out in favor of steps also advocated by Democrats to hold down interest rates for federal student loans So he basically did a 180....again
Obama, got osama, fought and won agaisnt republicans and prevented the end of 500k jobs and Chrysler and GM, signed into laww banking reforms to prevent a reoccurence of what just happened, cr4eated a consumer finance buraua to potect consumers form the type of abuses and miseading representations of loans that ended with so many losing homes, signed into law a deficit nuetral bill to increase health care cobe5rage and guarentee the sick coulf get coverage, end the practice of huge overhead and little medical care from mpremiums, set minu=imum standards to prevent the sad continueing story of insured poeople discovering they ewere sold kaka insurance, preventts the practice of Insurers looking for minor omissions as long as a decade old to drop coverage when care was needed....nope didnt do anything
I think whats telling is anti middle class Mitt on student loans...saying that stuff while calling for more high end tax cuts.
Tell me which is more important a 8 percent high end cut or these programs which will be eliminated to finance the republican flip flop on student loans?quote:
5 prevention programs being targeted
By: Kathryn Smith
April 29, 2012 11:13 PM EDT
The fight in Congress over the Prevention and Public Health Fund may rage on for a while longer.
Republicans voted last week to eliminate what they termed as a “slush fund” as a way to prevent a large increase in student loan rates. Democrats disagree and will keep pushing for other student loan pay-fors. The prevention fund already has been hit with a $5 billion cut this year.
Here’s a look at five programs currently funded that could find themselves without cash, depending on how this fight plays out.
Tobacco prevention
$83 million was allocated to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to target health messages for areas with high tobacco use. CDC Director Thomas Frieden said last week that his organization’s Tips from Former Smokers advocacy campaign has had an impact with calls to their “1-800-QUIT-NOW” phone line doubling. But they’re up against deep pockets. Frieden said the $54 million spent on the campaign “will be outspent by the tobacco industry in two days.”
Suicide prevention
The fund set aside $10 million to support programs such as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a network of more than 150 crisis centers that provide counseling and mental health referrals 24 hours a day, and the Suicide Prevention Resource Center, which provides training and resources.
Community transformation grants
This year the fund put $226 million toward local projects promoting healthy lifestyles that help combat heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes. The program helps connect the health care system with faith-based, business, education, transportation and other community groups. Richard Hamburg, deputy director of the Trust for America’s Health, said 760 local, state and national organizations are on board. Without the grants, “we lose a chance — maybe our best chance — to turn our sick care system into a health care system,” he said. “The breadth and depth of support shows just how important the fund is.”
Immunization
$190 million of the fund is directed to the Section 317 program, a federal effort that builds infrastructure and operations to bump up vaccination rates for kids, teenagers and adults nationwide. The special focus is on underinsured children.
Health care-associated infections
The prevention fund allocated nearly $12 million to the CDC to help state health departments reduce infections that arise from treatment in a hospital or health care facility. They are costly and deadly. Efforts range from steps like promoting proper hand washing and sterilization to upgrading electronic reporting to track infections that are spreading. The CDC released data last week showing central line bloodstream infections dropped 32 percent in 2010
Now mirror that agaisnt the 400 million in subsidies and tax abatement oil companies get....
Do you really think the oil companies need the subsidies more than we need those program
Was it you who said he ws being forced to engage in commerce and but insurance? Is healthcare something people really choose not to engage in and if not should they be able to go chapter 7 when the buy a Humvee instead of insurance and have a health crisis and a 200k bill? Why should I have to pay for them?
Oh and I guess they are for the violence against women act this week too. How can you know what Romney is for???? How can anyone say a prty proposing massive tax cuts is focused on deficit reduction? I'm glad theycaved on the loans but it isnt enough. We need a path for people swith talent t o rise. We need a return to the post ww2 meritocracy.What changed the last 30 yrs ppolicy wise that cause d the shift form mobility between classes and stagnation? Why do people move between classes in Europe and not here?
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