Big mistake. I know it sounds like a great idea, but it actually is counterproductive.

Students who take intelligent courses (meaning course that prepare that to get a good job) will be punished. They will earn enough to pay back their loans.

However, students that take courses that don't provide for a sound career (major's like art history - we only need a few people to manage museums and teach art history - after those jobs are filled, what will you do?) will not earn enough money to pay back their loans. So the tax payers get stuck with the bill.

In essence, we are rewarding people to make poor choices, instead of intelligent choices. If we want people take the tough courses - medical, engineering, sciences, accounting, etc then why do we make them pay their own way, while we let people who made poor choices off the hook.

I'm not suggesting we don't help students - but we need to reward the right people, not the wrong people. The real question is why is college costing so much? Cost of college continues to increase at faster rates than inflation. Why?

For one thing student loans are a disaster. Since students can get the money, colleges keep raising their fees. If there were no loans - I guarantee college costs would come down. We give colleges no incentive to control costs. In fact, over the last few years - administrative costs are going up the fastest.

If you want to help our economy - give scholarships for degrees that we want filled. There are shortages in engineering and sciences - well give those students a scholarship to make those course more attractive in the short-term. Besides many of those course take more than 4 years so it costs more for those degrees.

We need to think - if we want to help students - help the right ones or help steer students to make intelligent decisions. Colleges should have to provide a cost benefit analysis for any degree major - if students saw those numbers they might not want to take a college major that earns less than $15 an hour - what fast employees think they are worth.

I know that many here won't like that title but if you read the link here you may realize why it is workable. Who has more supposed gun control than Chicago and who loses the most kids to shootings every weekend? It does seem to me that the Dem politicians of the city have sold the same can of worms to the v**ers with promises to do the same thing but better for some time.

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/michaelschaus/2014/09/09/guns-dont-cause-gang-violence--democrats-do-n1889108/page/full

It seems that the FBI knew most of the Americans who have gone to the Middle East to join ISIS and fight with them but the info was always unavailable for "we the people" until a couple of them were k**led in the fighting.

Bachmann wants Congress to pass a law that takes away the passport and citizenship of these young men to keep them from re-entering the US. This is essentially what Cameron is suggesting to the British Parliament. The part that will hold back the Congress and not the Parliament is a little document we call our Constitution. It says citizens can't be treated like this without due process of law so will be tough to pass. Britain has no written constitution so they can pass laws like this easily. What might happen to these young men once the progressives get our Constitution thrown out?

http://eaglerising.com/8420/rep-michele-bachmann-tells-america-fbi-told-isis/

The conservatives have a long list of "take back America proposals".

They have all been very losing propositions.

The Convention of the States is just another one you see pushed by the right wingers on OPP.


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From Harvard Law School:

The constitution specifies two different ways for amendments to the constitution to be proposed. The first method allows Congress to propose amendments when such amendments are approved by at least a 2/3 v**e in both houses. The states can then ratify the proposed amendments.

The second method is less familiar to most people as it has NEVER BEEN USED.

This method requires Congress to call a constitutional convention to propose amendments when 2/3 of the states apply for such a convention.

As of 1993, almost 400 convention applications have been submitted to congress by the states. (This is the # of applications since 1789).

THE NUMBER OF CONVENTIONS OF THE STATES HELD???
ZERO!!!!!!

Every state, except Hawaii, has submitted one of these things at one time or another.


The losing items in the "Take Back America" trashcan.

1. Impeachment over bogus birth certificate issues

2. Impeachment over B******i

3. Impeachment over Bergdahl

4. The Cliven Bundy "revolution"

5. The drive to repeal the 17th amendment (direct e******n of U.S. Senators).

6. The ill attended "Take Back America" rallies in Washington D.C. The last of these rallies was "Operation American Spring" in which 300 conservatives showed up to an event that its organizers said would have 10 MILLION PEOPLE.

7. Lastly, the "Convention of the States" delusion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/09/04/why-did-the-irs-clean-out-lois-lerners-blackberry-after-probes-began/

I'm sure all of the Democrats that have swallowed the Democrat line about the investigation being totally political will all stand up now and demand to know why Lois Learner's Blackberry was wiped clean and destroyed after the Congress started it's investigation to the corruption in the IRS.

Come on Dems, at least pretend to be against using the IRS as a political weapon.

The right wing world will become sad and gloomy, with hand-wringing, whining, crying and moaning about "v***r f***d".
All the pundits have already given the senate to the republicans, but in the last e******n, Nate Silver was correct in his predictions, and Sam Wang is the only major pollster to accurately pick every contested seat.
So, if his contrarian view is right, the screaming cry-babies will be crying for another two years.
Couldn't happen to a nastier bunch.


http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Voices/2014/0831/Why-Democrats-will-keep-the-Senate-A-contrarian-analysis-of-the-2014-midterms