ObamaCare as you rightly point out is a life and death issue. That means that the efforts to pass it necessarily overshadow everything else. The Democrats, knowing that, are using the “reconciliation” as cover to pass some other dubious and politically unpopular legislation. They are stuffing Obama’s takeover of higher education into it as well. What ObamaCare is to medicine, Obama Loans are to college. They will consolidate federal control of higher education finance in the Department of Education. Obama wants this as part of his plan to double college enrollments by 2020 (from 18 million to 36 million) and make the United States the nation with the largest percentage of college-degreed citizens in the world. Right now, the nation that holds that enviable position is Russia, with 55 percent. This level of higher education has made Russia the powerhouse of innovation and productivity we see today, hasn’t it? Why would it work out any differently for us?
