The Democrats are compounding their government takeover of health care by packaging it with a federal takeover of student loans, in the form of a new bill that would seek to make college education into a government entitlement—while chasing private lenders out of the market for student loans.
This is the real giveaway about the Democrats' vision for America. It is a system in which we will have to go to the government for every important need of our lives: health care, student loans, retirement income, mortgages—everything. And we will enjoy all of these things only on the terms dictated by the government.
That is the left's goal: the individual's total dependence on government—and, as a consequence, the government's total control over the individual.
"Deal Gives New Life to Overhaul of Student Loans," David M. Herszenhorn and Tamar Lewin, New York Times, March 11
Democratic Congressional leaders struck a tentative agreement on Thursday that breathes new life into President Obama's proposed overhaul of federal student loan programs.
The deal would bundle the bill into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation, which would allow for both measures to be passed by the Senate on a simple majority vote. Without the deal, the student loan bill would have been unlikely to pass because it lacked the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.
The bill would end government payments to private, commercial student lenders, leaving the government to lend directly to students. It would also redirect billions of dollars to expand the Pell grant program for low-income students, and to pay for other education initiatives.
Robert Tracinski writes daily commentary at TIADaily.com. He is the editor of "The Intellectual Activist (TIA)" and contributor to "The Freedom Fighter's Journal."
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