Look at their demands:
The United States spends more money per student than any country on the planet save Luxembourg. In 2007, American taxpayers spent an average of $111,000 on a student's K-12 education.
Why are these kids screaming at Wall Street about their student loans? They should be protesting their universities and the government.
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Your Marxist professor that is excusing your absence so that you can go protest is not going to take a "haircut." Your lefty university that is supporting OccupyWallStreet isn't going to lower your tuition. Your student loan officer in the Federal government is not going to forgive your debt. All are so glad that you are blaming Wall Street. Meanwhile, don't forget to send your cheque to them.
As an aside, why are TEA Partiers called nuts when they implore their representatives to "read the bill," but OccupyWallStreeters are considered "sane and rational" by the New York Times, MSNBC, etc., when they demand that $1 trillion in student loans be forgiven? We really are at the bottom of the rabbit hole when asking an elected official to do the job he was elected to do is a bizarre request, but demanding that the tuition faerie wipe out the equivalent of the Marshall Plan ($115.3 billion in today's dollars) ... and the Louisiana Purchase ($217 billion) ... and the race to the Moon ($237 billion) ... and the S&L crisis ($256 billion) ... and 1/3rd of the entire New Deal ($500 billion) in one fell swoop is a sensible demand.
"Read the Bill!" = Costs Nothing = Crazy
"Forgive All Student Loans!" = Costs $1 Trillion = Sane
Dress Up As Ben Franklin & Betsy Ross = Crazy
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