Stuff you can’t make up:
Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) took on a unique enemy during a radio interview yesterday: people with student loans.
Though many politicians sympathize with those who are saddled with exorbitant student debt, Foxx, who chairs the House subcommittee on higher education, had a different take.
Appearing on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show, the North Carolina congresswoman recounted her own experience paying for college, where she worked her way through and graduated after seven years. Foxx then pointed to her own experience as justification for why she has “very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt.” “There’s no reason for that,” she concluded…
She can’t feign ignorance of the soaring tuition costs at American colleges and universities, because she chairs the house committee that focuses on higher education. Yet, this old coot still says that there is no reason why people are graduating with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. In fact, she can’t even tolerate such people. She should retire to her outdoor couch, shotgun, and coon dog.
She should retire to her outdoor couch, shotgun, and coon dog.
Who says she even knows how to use a gun? I’d bet she’d shoot herself in the foot if she tried to use one.
just another anachronistic old biddy. probably a proud, card carrying member of the UDC.
Umm, I’d rather graduate in 4 years with some debt than be the world’s oldest sophomore.
Back in ’61 when she was graduated gas prices were less than a qtr a gallon, tuition was likely the equivalent of a dozen plucked chickens brought in from the farm…
She should be one of the first to recognize that the education she paid for and received in ’61 is on a different planet compared to what college students have to contend with today. Doesn’t Foxx sit on the Educ. Committee in the House?
Most of the conservatives I know think stamps are more expensive today than they were 50 years go, too. They’re not. Adjusted for inflation, stamps cost roughly what they did in the 19th century. But if you try to explain that to a republican, all you get is the whine…
Also, gas prices only recently have gone above what they were decades ago as well — when you factor in inflation, cost of fuel as part of a family’s budget, and fuel efficiency.
What most people probably don’t know is that Virginia Foxx was President of Mayland Technical College (now Mayland Community College) in Spruce Pine NC.
She is not ignorant of the issues with college education; she is just trying to outcrazy other GOP folks. In her area, there are people who work and go to community college over seven years just to get a low-wage job.
She can STFU. My son, 24, is lucky to have both a full time job and a part time job so he can pay off his $40,000 student loans. He said they just doubled the interest on his federal one. He had scholarships and grants and got good grades, but had to get loans to finish.
Every penny he makes now goes toward those loans. My mom asked him if he was going to splurge and get a nice TV with his tax return, but he told her he had already used it to pay down his loan.
So Ms Foxx, you selfish, hateful old bag, you can kiss my ass.
She can’t feign ignorance of the soaring tuition costs at American colleges and universities, because she chairs the house committee that focuses on higher education
She can feign it, to pander to the Boomers and older folks who think the whole reason younger people complain about college costs is that they’re slackers (and that their music sucks).
Republicans are Republicans because they resent the idea that someone is getting a free ride on their dime. Foxx is working to make college students unsympathetic and unworthy of government assistance. Just like black people, Spanish speakers, women who have sex, and public employees.
Story in today’s Chicago Tribune that US students going to foreign colleges due to costs. Example is going to King’s College, Cambridge for $26,000 (including fees and living expenses) instead of paying twice that at a US state university (U of Illinois).
Crazy like a fox no longer means what it used to mean.