The student loan crisis is a nice hot topic lately. No one knows what to do about it. Yet it seems very stupid for the government to take control of a series of loans that have no way to be repaid.
Or is it?
The government funds the schools, and now they fund the students. They are in a perfect position with all the under employed students to take full control over the university system. They simply have to say "the university system has failed in its mission to properly educate students for the future, we need to take over"
They then get to determine what gets taught, who it gets taught to, and what industries can get the first pick of interns.
Having complete control over the university system will allow a political party in charge to remove any contrasting view points from the universities. It will also ensure that their political philosophy is subtly mainstream.
The best and easiest way to achieve this, would be by creating an artificial loan crisis. I suspect that they will do this next year, and that is why we have two unpopular candidates running for office. The president gets blamed, and congress can enact a program to "solve" the loan crisis by taking over the university system.
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ComedicGoat ago
For what it's worth, I think you're on to something there, chief. Creating a pool of young, loud, not-so-intelligent, gullible, and indebted idiots who have no concept of independence, self-defense through arms and forward thinking is a surefire way of prolonging the status quo and further entrenching the powers that be.