Where are the ink-stained scriveners of yesteryear?

College is more expensive because of student loan programs, where nobody is spending their own money and also due to entitlement mentalities among many incoming students for expensive external perks.

College would be more, not less accessible if it was not awash in quasi-free loan money.

Do you have a mental list of things you would like to see done? At least one things to be done is on my list, too – get out of Iraq. Hopefully completely. I think we share that.

What else might we share, given that I think we should have universal health care and way more money spent in post-secondary education? Are you for weaning ourselves off of oil, at least mostly? What about the environment? Are you for it or agin it? :)

On policy, the Democrats are less likely to do most of the things I would like to see done, and they are more likely to do far more things that I think shouldn’t be done. So, there is less potential there for the sort of governing that I would like to see.

But libertarianism and Ron Paul don’t have that much to offer either. Though he might be better than anything the Republicans have put up in the last 40 years.

We live in a universe that requires checks and balances, and when we the people don’t provide them, the meta rule of consequences eventually does. Libertarianism is another vision of utopia, unachievable with real human beings.

You see less potential in Democrats? Potential for what, Daniel? Potential for disaster? Even the criminals on the Democratic side don’t start needless wars. At least so far.

As for making my views more widely held, I doubt this would happen in either of the major parties.