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Or, stated more positively, the government gives the poor subsidized loans so they can go university. I'm not really seeing heavy handed oppression by a cruel

• cmurf 11y ago
  No that's not true, not everyone who wants to go gets to go. Why bother being overtly oppressive when the vast majority go into massive debt to get a college education, enriching banks in the process; while the upper crust use pocket change to get the same because, afterall, their family is so deserving of this merit.
  • nitwit005 11y ago
    I didn't say everyone who wants to go gets to go did I? I just re-stated things positively. Guaranteeing that debt costs the US government quite a bit of money, which means there is an overall transfer of wealth from rich to poor through taxes. Again, it seems more like this has to do with American political ideas, rather than not wanting the poor to be educated. Incidentally, it would appear that you are out of date, as they started lending directly in 2010, instead of lending through banks.