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Libertarian Candidate Michael Badnarik Interview
Lowtekium writes "On November 2nd many young adult Americans will go to the polls to vote for their next President, but very few of them know of the Libertarian Presidential Candidate, Michael Badnarik. JIVE Magazine had the chance to interview Mr. Badnarik. He gives his thoughts on various topics that affect young adults such educational aid and funding for college students, video game violence, and even music and entertainment censorship."
What's the point of all these candidates with less than 1% of the vote even trying.
"Fighting terrorists with millitary might is like killing a mosquitor on your Dad's forehead with a rifle."
Read the interview, he calls college grants for low-income student "goverment-sponsored theft".
/. can relate...
Well, you know what? It may not fit the definition of theft that's codified into laws, but it comes kinda close to the idea most people have. (I'll overlook the removal of the quote from the context, because I don't think it matters too much in this instance.)
I'm not sure how I feel about federally funded student aid, but I know I have seen many, many students that probably wouldn't have been able to go to college without it. And you know what? Those students shouldn't have been in college, because they were wasting everyone else's time, going to drop/fail out anyway, and still getting a portion of the money the government takes from what I earn. I would imagine many others on
The only possible bright side to this that I can think of is that those... people who managed to get federal financial aid will at least likely have gotten loans for the large portion of it, which will need to be paid back with interest, even if that interest is currently less than the rate of inflation.
Without this "goverment-sponsored theft", I wouldn't be making $70K right now and contributing $20K per year to Uncle Sam... I might even be on welfare...
I hate to point this out to you, but if someone robs a bank, uses that money to start a business that eventually ends up employing hundreds of people, and by the end of their life donates 3 times what they stole to charity, well... they still robbed a bank. Can't change the facts just because it happened to be a "good" result this time.
'm not sure how I feel about federally funded student aid, but I know I have seen many, many students that probably wouldn't have been able to go to college without it. And you know what? Those students shouldn't have been in college, because they were wasting everyone else's time, going to drop/fail out anyway, and still getting a portion of the money the government takes from what I earn. I would imagine many others on /. can relate...
/. can relate... </sarcasm>
Where do you get off saying this? What possible information could you have that ties federal financial aid to drop-out rate or overall success?
You know, I think the pretty-boy frat assholes & bimbette, know-nothing sorority girls who went to college on mommy & daddy's dime and who spent far more time in bars than in class didn't deserve to go to college. All they did was party, but then cheat, lie & bribe their way into high paying jobs in sales. I imagine many others on
Fuck you for saying that just because their parents couldn't afford to send them to college that they don't deserve to go. Fuck you for condemning unprivileged people to having less opportunity for education than upper-middle class kids. And fuck you very much for judging someone who went to college and got a good job to be equal to a bank robber.
You are seriously screwed up, jerk-weed.
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