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Every time this woman opens her mouth it is cornucopia of stupid. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) likes to pick on the less fortunate to score points, such as the victims of hate crimes (claiming Matthew Shepard’s murder was just about a robbery). Now it’s people who try to better themselves through education — and need to take out loans to do so. (Think Progress):
Appearing on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show, the North Carolina congresswoman recounted her own experience paying for college, where she worked her way through and graduated after seven years. Foxx then pointed to her own experience as justification for why she has “very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt.” “There’s no reason for that,” she concluded:
FOXX: I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money. He borrowed a little bit because we both were totally on our own when we went to college, totally. [...] I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that. We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that. I remind folks all the time that the Declaration of Independence says “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” You don’t have it dumped in your lap.
Flashback:
Rep. Foxx: “The bill was named after a very unfortunate incident that happened, where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of robbery. It wasn’t because he was gay. The bill was named for him, the hate crimes bill was named for him, but it’s, it’s really a hoax, that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.”[House Floor Speech, 4/29/09]
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Has anyone ever called the zoning department where she lives about her raising livestock in her garage? You know, the flying monkeys……
Tuition has increased (at least!) five-to-ten times since I was in college. No it wasn’t quite as long ago as Foxx’s day…but not too far off (she and I have roughly the same hair color).
That an elected official would be entirely unaware of such simple economic facts! What century is she living in? Not this one. Whether it’s the 20th or the 19th, I’m not sufficiently curious to ask.
Well, we are talking about one of the 11 congresspeople who voted against the post-Katrina aid package. Empathy, not to say basic decency, is not among Foxx’s strong points.
Not to mention a severe lack of humanity and intelligence!
When will Captain Orange or his lapdog Eric Cantor set her down and tell her to sit down, shut up, and for the good of the party, retire?
When I went to college in the 80′s a degree was about $30k-$50k for a basic BA or BS. The price of gas was about 80 cents to a buck something a gallon too. Prices go up, they don’t come down.
Now days to work your way though college is nice and all, but sadly unless you can find a part time job that pays $20k a year I just dont see how you can ‘work your way’ though college any more.
She’s stuck in the 1950′s across the board. Can someone give her a hard nudge, see if they can skip her in to the 1990′s at least.
The right wing loves the 1950s, ostensibly because it was a time when the morals they claim to defend were practiced by one and all to create a paradise on Earth, but really because women, blacks, and gays were all second-class citizens like they’re “supposed” to be.
“I have very little tolerance for bigoted Carolinians without any brains”
Maureen Hennessey,LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D.SLPO(Student loans paid off)
The Congresswoman also went to college when it was far more heavily subsidised than it is now….and I suspect she was rarely in class as, like the Ancient Bourbons, she has leaarned nothing
Maura Hennessey makes a good point: state governments used to subsidize state universities far more than they do now. I’m sure state funding has been reduced in the wake of tax cuts, which Rep. Foxx’s party champions.
Following Rep. Foxx’s logic, no one should apply for a mortgage to buy a house. You should wait until you’ve saved up enough to pay for it in cash.