Idiot idea #1

In their never ending quest to show just how much they don't care about the American people, the republican party just keeps putting forth bad idea after bad idea.  First up--Marco Rubio's economic plan which calls for helping people pay for college by selling themselves to private investors.  In a nutshell, students would have their tuition paid for by an investor, who would in turn take a percentage of their pay after college (Rubio calls for 4%) until the debt has been paid.

Leaving aside the fact that the idea reeks of indentured servitude (what is it with conservatives doing all they can to ensure Americans are working in some sort of slavery?),  the first major problem I see with it is with extreme conflicts of interest.  Can you imagine the potential pitfalls with a pharmaceutical magnate investing in a host of doctors?  Wall Street investing in business students conducting research on labor?  Please, we working class folks get fucked enough without stacking the deck even further.

The second major problem I see is...how exactly does this help the folks who need it most?  It's easy to imagine a host of investors wanting to underwrite Harvard MBA's and Yale law school students and Johns Hopkins medical students, but what about the man or woman going to BFE Tech who wants to be a nurse or an elementary school teacher?

Frankly, this idea floated by Rubio is just another in a long line of republicans puckering their lips for the wealthy elite while simultaneously trying to boot the rest of us in our collective asses.

Peace,
emaycee