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Obama Asks Students for 'Amen'
Weekly Standard ^ | 4/24/12 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 04/24/2012 11:02:07 AM PDT by Nachum

At an event at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, President Barack Obama tried to rouse the crowd by asking for an "amen."

"The fact is that since most of you were born, tuition and fees at America's colleges have more than doubled," Obama said. "And that forces students like to take out a lot more loans, there are fewer grants, you rack up more debt. Can I get an 'amen'?"

The students responded: "Amen!"

Obama continued: “The average student who borrows to pay for college now graduates with about $25,000 in student loan debt—that’s the average, some are more. Can I get an ‘amen’ for that?”

"Amen," the students responded.

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KEYWORDS: amen; asks; obama; obamastudentloans; studentloans; students
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And the rest of us say "Oy Vey"
1 posted on 04/24/2012 11:02:16 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

I’ve met students who owe over $560,000 between the two, and another student in Theological School owes $132,000. Most kids I know all end up with over $60,000 owed. I don’t think an average is $25k.


2 posted on 04/24/2012 11:05:03 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Nachum

You know, I think he really doesn’t know what caused tuition inflation. He’s as ignorant as the kids.


3 posted on 04/24/2012 11:05:24 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: Nachum

OMG!

And...

Holder sues Florida city, says firefight test racist—says the biggest racist around, besides 0bamao


4 posted on 04/24/2012 11:06:13 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Anyone not wanting an ID or purple thumb to vote isn't worthy of voting privilege.)
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To: Nachum

Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.

-Judge Smails


5 posted on 04/24/2012 11:06:21 AM PDT by Autonomous User ( As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.)
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To: Nachum

The only way that quota baby will get an “amen” from most literate folks is if they are under the impression that it is Kenyan for “up yours”.


6 posted on 04/24/2012 11:06:21 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Nachum

Call and response, call and response, the tactics
of mass manipulation. These instances combined with
the Occupy movement (so called) bode evil times
are ahead for freedom loving individuals.


7 posted on 04/24/2012 11:07:11 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

There he goes with the “some are paying more” than the average meme like the ad on High School Drop Outs. Yes, some are paying more. Some are paying LESS. Thus the point of averages.


8 posted on 04/24/2012 11:08:22 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Nachum

So, rather than do something to reduce the vastly inflated tuition costs, Obama’s answer to have American taxpayers start footing the bill.


9 posted on 04/24/2012 11:08:36 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Nachum

just replace amen with sieg heil.


10 posted on 04/24/2012 11:10:33 AM PDT by bravo whiskey (If the little things really bother you, maybe it's because the big things are going well.)
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To: rovenstinez

-—I don’t think an average is $25k.——

My daughter is going to commute to the local state college to get her worthless degree for $7k/yr. She will work part-time to pay tuition, so she can graduate debt-free.

She needs a worthless teaching degree to teach in a Catholic school.

I know the degree is a joke, my daughter knows the degree is a joke, and the college probably does too.

At least it’s relatively inexpensive. 8-P


11 posted on 04/24/2012 11:11:37 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas (Viva Christo Rey!)
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To: circlecity

The student loan deal is another liberal funding program.

Students borrow huge sums at subsidized rates, pay big $$ to colleges for overpriced education.

Schools pay big $$ in salaries to liberal profs and administrators.

Profs and admins contribute $$ to liberal candidates and causes.

And repeat.....


12 posted on 04/24/2012 11:12:00 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Nachum

Heh... tuition costs rose as a direct response to available, federally-guaranteed student loan money. Period.

Want to see tuitions come down? Do away with federal money for college.


13 posted on 04/24/2012 11:12:25 AM PDT by Oberon (Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
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To: Autonomous User

“Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.”

You don’t expect any of these students to actually get a freaking job do you?! I doubt many of them are taking courses that would help them get a job!


14 posted on 04/24/2012 11:17:35 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Nachum

He’s really starting to annoy me.


15 posted on 04/24/2012 11:18:35 AM PDT by AU72
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To: rovenstinez

Unless of course they were like my daughter who has a total of 10,000 in loans. The rest was paid for by her working and going to school

I had ZERO dollars in loans as I worked and ant to school at the same time.

Perhaps it is the laziness of the mutes.

How in the hell do you acquire more than a half a million in student loans?? It says they went to the ‘best’ (make that the most expensive) school for the maximum amount of time and took NO work on the side to help defray costs. It is NOT tax payers responsibility to educate those who are to lazy to work to educate themselves.

A pox on all of their houses


16 posted on 04/24/2012 11:19:00 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

Dratted autofill

that should read laziness of the ‘yutes’


17 posted on 04/24/2012 11:19:45 AM PDT by Nifster
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Can your daughter go to a Christian college for the teaching degree?


18 posted on 04/24/2012 11:21:19 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it and the law is what WE say it is.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
It's not a joke. If nothing else, it's certified proof she can take on a complex multi-year project involving lots of people and finish it. And she's smart enough to not get into stupid levels of debt for it. Kudos.
19 posted on 04/24/2012 11:21:35 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Nachum

“...and let thy Holy Pell Grants shine down upon us” /sarc


20 posted on 04/24/2012 11:23:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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