I especially like his program of offering $4,000 tuition tax credit in exchange for 100 hours of community service. Community service at $40 per hour; yeah, no wonder he spent all those years at it!

Community service pays $40 an hour? You can't make that much with your degree. It would be better just to stay a professional community server.

"Hope will pay your tuition."

THAT sounds like the promising beginning of a new line of T-shirts and bumper stickers.

"My clothes aren't Old Navy faux-raggedy, they're Salvation Army REAL-raggedy!"

The only military that Obamarama can comfortably support.

I LOLed a couple of times there.

$1,500 doesn't seem like a lot of money to someone with the assets the Obama family has. I thought this guy was the savior with the heart of gold, but the best he can do for young Marilyn is tell her to hope the government sends her a check several years from now? Hmm...what a guy.

I clicked on the link because I didn't think that the premise of the story was for real, but apparently this girl really is crying because she has to take out a small loan to cover college. If she lives with in her means (i.e. no credit card debt), said loan will be paid in no time.

You know, I was just thinking that we haven't heard from the Ron Paul crowd in a while.

I'm a little disappointed. I could use a chuckle.

She's crying because she has to take out a loan for college????? My husband and I just finished paying ours off not long ago (and we're in our 30's). We never whined once, let alone cried. SHEESH.

Thanks Harvey - I needed the laugh (especially after the lady with the baby video - UGH!) It's going to be a longgggggg 5 months.

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you."

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Isn't that Ronaldus Maximus' famous line about the scariest thing one can hear?

Plenty of ROTC scholarships out there... And the Army has some education loan pay back programs as well. She needs to Ruck Up.

I'm not going to worry about it anymore.

If the Obamination gets elected, I'm quitting my job, signing up for welfare, food stamps, and any other entitlement I can get, and just sitting back and coasting for 4 years. Heck, maybe I'll even enroll in grad school. If the Obamination is so eager to take care of me then why not let him? I'm sure he won't be there for long - my guess is that by 2010, we'll be electing an overwhelmingly conservative congress if he's elected. As a small business owner, I haven't taken a day off in 10 years, I could use a vacation. If he's going to punish me for not letting big brother take care of me, I'm going to punish him by letting him.

I bet that exchange between Ms. Price & Obambi was totally spontaneous! I dunno about the rest of you, but I'm truly convinced of his benevolence now.

- still got that tofu brownie?".

Tofu Brownie. Heh. My new nickname for Obama. Kinda white yet kinda brown.

No, I'm not racist... I just don't suffer fools gladly.

Here's a thought: I wonder how hundreds of thousands of university students constantly have the money & leisure to protest against everything imaginable, but a clearly well-fed community college student can't come up with a one month's salary to pay tuition.

She's already been promised a loan, and either that was the case before Obambi's visit, or the FA counselor is pulling strings for her just because Barack was there, which is unfair to any other aspiring dental hygienists who might be in a similar predicament.

I realize that $1500 is not exactly small change, but come on now. Her father probably gets a disability check each month, and I'm betting she's been working somewhere for supplemental income. Most school loans don't require repayment until after graduation anyway, so what's with the drama?

Somehow, I'm guessing that Ms. Price acquired about $1500 either just prior to or right after her meet & greet with the lefts Saviour du Jour.

#11 I hear ya. While in college full time we both worked 3 - I kid you not - 3 jobs each. We never slept, we ate doritos for dinner - you know the routine. My hub even CHARGED his tuition on occasion because he didn't have it(not recommended!) And when that was maxed out, we'd sit out a semester or two until we could afford to go back. Took a little longer, but we did it. And we didn't complain - it's just what we had to do. But there were plenty of kids on free rides (not scholarships) who drove new cars, didn't work, had nice clothes, felt entitled to all of it and appreciated none of it. Oh and they STILL complained. This used to really bug my husband. Not me so much (I was just happy to be there!) So now, when people tell us we have "too many kids" and ask "how are we ever going to afford college for all of them?" We just laugh. Not that we don't want to make it a little easier for our kids, but we're also teaching our children a dying trade....HARD WORK!!! Thanks for letting me rant. I have no other outlet for my Obama-induced-depression! Sigh.

In the scheme of things, $1,500 isn't really that much. People borrow much more than that to buy houses or cars, and I'm sure that the lady in question has more than $1500 in credit card debt (unfortunately). She'll easily be able to pay back the loan once she leaves college.

Re: #11 - I had no idea John Galt read IMAO

I second #13, innominatus. "Tofu Brownie" is so apt.

I was laughing until I realized how close it is to the truth.

I thought most everyone took out student loans? Pretty much everyone I knew at school did (unless they had a generous grandma). Of course that was 25 years ago....

"I'm from the government and I'm here to help you."

Yep, truly one of the scariest sentences in the English language, along with "Do it for the children" and "We have a responsibility to help." All of these translate roughly into "We're going to shake Jim down."

I've thought of doing a less intense version of #11's plan. I'd live on my own money, but I sure wouldn't work, which would certainly reduce my taxes, so that they'd only be about twice what I ought to be paying.

I think everyone has it wrong. She's crying tears of joy because the Obamassiah just cured her blindness with his healing touch. Is there anything this man can't do?

Oh... she's from Taylor.

Well she probably can't even read then. They really shouldn't let downriver people go to college anyway.

Is it wrong, that I think lending companies should deny students loans, unless they are getting a major in something productive. It just doesn't make good business sense to loan someone money to study sociology, or woman's studies. When I am dictator of the world, (after my army of evil monkey jihadist conquer it for me), I will see about fixing that.

#17 on #11: haha, even funnier icing on a great cake. I'd ask you "who is John Galt?" but then you'd just say "exactly." The first time I read that book, I got nervous that people might be inspired to try a stunt like that. Eventually I realized that there already ARE people doing that, that it happens naturally (not necessarily that well organized) in every society where the situation has gotten this way (which is every society in history), and that it's a good thing. Now I no longer check under my bed at night for John Galt.

#23 - I agree with you whole-heartedly and think that not only should private lenders do that, but the govt. as well. The whole idea behind govt. funding is to make sure that there's enough people filling jobs which benefit society as a whole.. i.e. nurses, teachers, scientists, etc., not to fund someone for five years to booze and get a womyn's studies degree (which is worthless in the job market).

Barry really is a dumb@$$ magnet, isn’t he?

All those who made it through college, got a degree worth having, paid off their loans, and did it without whineing the whole time; I salute you! SA-LUTE!
All those who double-mortgaged their houses and paid for their kids to go to college to study basket weaving and advanced toe-twiddling, then had the little parasites move back home; It's not too late to run away, change your name and start a new life! DON'T LOOK BACK!

Curious that on the big day where she was going to see/meet the messiah that she did not wear eye makeup. Was the whole break down staged? Raccoon eyes do not look good on national television. Just a thought....

Harvey, I smell a photoshop of Barry in Robin Hood tights.

Now that thar's funny. That's some entertaining, creative satire.

When I first saw IAMO many moons ago, I read it "LMAO" ... and that's what I'm doing now :-D