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Romney has no plans to increase federal spending on higher education and was roundly criticized for telling college students to simply borrow more money from their parents.
Romney would slash the tax benefits middle-class families rely on to pay for college.
Romney also wants to reverse the administration's decision to kick private lenders and banks out of the federal student loan program — or what the Romney campaign calls Obama's "nationalization" of student loans.
"That is just not accurate," says Neal McCluskey of the libertarian Cato Institute. He's no fan of the administration's higher education policies, but he says Obama did not nationalize the student loan program.
Under the old policy that Romney wants to restore, banks would issue federally subsidized loans, and if a student defaulted, banks "would get all their money back plus a profit," McCluskey says. "That was nationalized student lending."
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/11/162707695/obama-romney-on-higher-ed-help-dueling-visions
Romney would slash the tax benefits middle-class families rely on to pay for college.
Romney also wants to reverse the administration's decision to kick private lenders and banks out of the federal student loan program — or what the Romney campaign calls Obama's "nationalization" of student loans.
"That is just not accurate," says Neal McCluskey of the libertarian Cato Institute. He's no fan of the administration's higher education policies, but he says Obama did not nationalize the student loan program.
Under the old policy that Romney wants to restore, banks would issue federally subsidized loans, and if a student defaulted, banks "would get all their money back plus a profit," McCluskey says. "That was nationalized student lending."
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/11/162707695/obama-romney-on-higher-ed-help-dueling-visions
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Fox News’s Megyn Kelly asked Sarah Palin about the Romney photo in light of the former vice presidential nominee’s own experience with a picture in 2008 — an AP image of a photo of her legs with young male supporters looking up at her.
“Hell yeah, it's media bias," Palin said. “And it's also some sexism when you consider what the response to Mitt Romney's photo is — which is degrading and Associated Press, they’re jerks for having run that, even with the caption. I mean, absolute jerks and biased to try and taint some people’s view of Mitt Romney by running this photo. It’s embarrassing.”
“But when you consider people's responses to what this picture is, I don't remember a whole lot of people getting too wee weed up about the photos that were run of me four years ago, including the young men that looked like they were looking up legs or up my skirt, even,” Palin added.
Last night even on Bill O'Reilly, I saw that he did a piece on this segment, I don't know if he did a piece on that when it happened to me or maybe some other women over the years, so I think that it's still kind of still a tell-tale sign of some little bit of sexism in our society, that we really need to overcome so that we can all move forward."
As the interview with Palin wrapped, Kelly added, “you’ve got to feel for the little girl who is pictured there in a way that I’m sure her parents didn’t anticipate.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/10/palin-associated-press-are-absolute-jerks-138174.html
“Hell yeah, it's media bias," Palin said. “And it's also some sexism when you consider what the response to Mitt Romney's photo is — which is degrading and Associated Press, they’re jerks for having run that, even with the caption. I mean, absolute jerks and biased to try and taint some people’s view of Mitt Romney by running this photo. It’s embarrassing.”
“But when you consider people's responses to what this picture is, I don't remember a whole lot of people getting too wee weed up about the photos that were run of me four years ago, including the young men that looked like they were looking up legs or up my skirt, even,” Palin added.
Last night even on Bill O'Reilly, I saw that he did a piece on this segment, I don't know if he did a piece on that when it happened to me or maybe some other women over the years, so I think that it's still kind of still a tell-tale sign of some little bit of sexism in our society, that we really need to overcome so that we can all move forward."
As the interview with Palin wrapped, Kelly added, “you’ve got to feel for the little girl who is pictured there in a way that I’m sure her parents didn’t anticipate.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/10/palin-associated-press-are-absolute-jerks-138174.html