The following video from Barack Obama outlines his plan to buy more votes in 2012.
This is an illegal usurpation of Congressional authority by the executive branch. It is also a redistribution of wealth by forcing taxpayers to pay college tuition for other people when certain conditions are met. Higher education is not a right.
Obama Taps Taxpayers For Student Stimulus
Take this example: If Suzy Creamcheese gets into George Washington University and borrows from the government the requisite $212,000 to obtain an undergraduate degree, her repayment schedule will be based on what she earns. If Suzy opts to heed the president’s call for public service, and takes a job as a city social worker earning $25,000, her payments would be limited to $1,411 a year after the $10,890 of poverty-level income is subtracted from her total exposure.
Twenty years at that rate would have taxpayers recoup only $28,220 of their $212,000 loan to Suzy.
The president will also allow student debtors to refinance and consolidate loans on more favorable terms, further decreasing the payoff for taxpayers.
David DeGerolamo
